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L’art – est-il juste un autre objet de luxe? Pas de Cartier ! – actualisé! — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life | Barbara Crane Navarro Art – is it just another luxury item? No Cartier! – updated!

Source: L’art – est-il juste un autre objet de luxe? Pas de Cartier ! – actualisé! — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life | Barbara Crane Navarro

Covid-19 and school reopenings, explained in 10 facts – Vox- (still do not know how risky; who will just get sick and who will die)

The difference between staff and student infection rates adds to an existing body of evidence suggesting that opening schools poses a greater risk to adults than to children. From data in the US and abroad, “we know that if you have limited control measures in place, and have transmission going on in the school, that it is likely that teachers would become infected,” Guthrie said. Source: Covid-19 and school reopenings, explained in 10 facts – Vox

By kicking Amnesty out, India is betraying its founding ideals | Rajat Khosla

Our work is not some sinister plot to tarnish India’s reputation. It is inspired by the country’s own tradition of egalitarianism

• Rajat Khosla is a senior director at Amnesty International

As of today, Amnesty International will no longer be able to work inside India. Following years of official threats, intimidation and harassment, Amnesty India’s accounts have been frozen without any official notice. The human rights research and campaigning our colleagues were carrying out has come to a sudden halt. They have had their means to make a living snatched from them. And the millions of people who were helped by their work will no longer have a powerful voice to amplify their own calls for justice.

This decision was not motivated by any question of law, as the Indian authorities now claim. It is not about Amnesty India’s sources of funding, which are entirely legitimate and involved no lawbreaking. This is punishment for standing up for humanity’s core values in the world’s largest democracy.

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10 English Words You Didn’t Know Came From Arabic — Egyptian Streets

Dictionary. Photo courtesy of Aaron Burden. Arabic is one of the oldest languages in the world, dating back to approximately 512 BCE, with 310 million native speakers worldwide as of 2016. While some consider that the language has been slowly dying in recent years, especially in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, its inspiration into…

10 English Words You Didn’t Know Came From Arabic — Egyptian Streets

Virus Upticks Expand Across NYC, Alarming Experts – Gothamist -(create new normal – old normal = Covid-19 reeks havoc)

Last week, the Department of Health had identified six initial clusters, but on Wednesday evening city health officials issued an alert saying that they were now monitoring 10 neighborhoods, including Far Rockaway, South Brooklyn and a portion of Central Queens, where cases are increasing at an alarming rate. The 14-day test positivity rate in all of these neighborhoods have risen above 3%, far above the citywide average, which has been around 1%.

Taken together, the areas account for nearly 28% of new cases citywide over the past two weeks, while representing less than 8% of the city’s overall population, health officials said.

Source: Virus Upticks Expand Across NYC, Alarming Experts – Gothamist