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Like many men, I had few close friends. So I began a friendship quest.
My month-long social experiment was both challenging and gratifying Perspective by Leonard Felson, July 28, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Out of the blue last fall, an acquaintance emailed me. “I want to start jogging, but I need someone to run with,” he wrote. I hadn’t run in years, but the possibility that jogging might…
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Opinion | Book bans raise the question: Have we forgotten what a library is for? – The Washington Post
By Deborah E. Mikula and Loren Khogali, September 30, 2022 at 12:18 p.m. EDT Deborah E. Mikula is executive director of the Michigan Library Association. Loren Khogali is executive director of the ACLU of Michigan. Imagine a town without a library. In August, people in Jamestown, Mich., just outside Grand Rapids, signaled with their votes that…
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Opinion | No, the Constitution is not ‘neutral’ on abortion – The Washington Post
The vision of getting the courts out of the abortion-deciding business sounds so reasonable, so alluring. It is also wrong, misleading and dangerous. By Ruth Marcus, Deputy editorial page editor, Post 12/07/2021 Abortion is different from these examples, of course, because it is not mentioned in the Constitution. But that does not make abortion unique…
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What it felt like to live through a year of the coronavirus pandemic – Washington Post
Stories of what it felt like to live through the shutdown. Dancing alone, canceling weddings, missing touch, missing one another and feeling alone together. The coronavirus pandemic brought out stories of profound grief and heroic resolve. These are not those stories. Instead, at this one-year mark, Style reporters set out to note some of the…
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CDC issues guidelines telling the vaccinated what they can do – The Washington Post
Long-awaited government guidelines loosen restrictions on how people can socialize, and see their grandchildren after they’re fully inoculated. Federal health officials released guidance Monday that gives fully vaccinated Americans more freedom to socialize and pursue routine activities, providing a pandemic-weary nation a first glimpse of what a new normal may look like in the months…
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How to plan for summer travel in 2021 – The Washington Post
While we may be traveling this summer, it won’t be the “old normal.” Here are travel experts’ predictions. By Natalie B. Compton February 24 After a particularly brutal winter in isolation, summer travel dreams feel like a glimmer of hope shimmering on the distant horizon. At least 44.5 million people in America have received one…
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Analysis | We’ve been cooped up with our families for almost a year. This is the result.
When the pandemic forced us into our homes to spend extended periods in contact only with a small circle of family members, it was one of the fastest, largest shifts of human behavior in memory. We’re just starting to understand the fallout. About 1 in 8 were home alone. Almost 2 in 5 were home…
