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☆ Lack of power in Puerto Rico creates life-or-death situations for those with medical needs
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Daniella Silva | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
JAYUYA, Puerto Rico — When Hurricane Fiona completely knocked out power and water to the mountain town of Jayuya, in the heart of Puerto Rico, it quickly became a life-or-death matter for Luis De Jesús Ramos, who has throat cancer and a tracheostomy. Luis De Jesús Ramos, 63, and his daughter Ashly Pérez, 26, in their home in Jayuya, Puerto Rico. Members of the company LUMA work restoring energy on Sept. 20, 2022 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Direct Relief Puerto Rico team came to the neighborhood to bring 10 portable oxygen concentrators and other supplies to partners in the area. Edwin Quiles Martínez, 66, and his wife Graciela Pérez Alvarado, 73, in their home in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
☆ Elina Svitolina: Ukrainian tennis player on a 'mission' to help war-torn country
  + stars: | 2022-06-27 | by ( Ben Church Cnn Video Amy Li | Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
CNN —Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina says she has a “mission” to help her country and wants to use her platform to provide hope to the war-torn nation. “One of the most important things as well is to keep their spirits up.”Elina Svitolina wants to use her platform to help Ukraine. Aged 16, Svitolina left Ukraine to pursue her sporting ambitions but always had her country in her heart. “He just explained what Ukraine really needs these days and how he sees the situation in Ukraine right now. “Of course, I’m still very, very sad about the situation that is happening right now and knowing how many people have lost their lives because of the invasion.
☆ Vladyslav Heraskevych: Ukrainian skeleton star goes from Winter Olympics to war zone in weeks
  + stars: | 2022-03-23 | by ( Jack Bantock Amanda Davies Lizete Dos Santos For Cnn | Jack Bantock | Amanda Davies | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Last month, Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych was a skeleton racer hurtling his way around the Yanqing Sliding Centre at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Heraskevych holds a sign with a message reading 'No war in Ukraine' during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in February. Till the end, till the 24th of February, all Ukraine and the whole world expects that world war doesn’t start – it’s an absolutely crazy feeling. “I can’t understand why they stay quiet or why they support this war,” Heraskevych said. “They are very powerful tool of Russian politics and propaganda and when these people support war, a lot of people in Russia also start to support this war,” Heraskevych said.
☆ Meet the typical Walgreens shopper, a white college-educated suburban baby boomer earning $80,000
  + stars: | 2022-02-26 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Walgreens' average customer is a white suburban baby boomer earning over $80,000 per year. Slightly less than two-thirds of all US shoppers are Walgreens customers, according to data from the analytics firm Numerator prepared for Insider. Numerator found that Walgreens' typical shopper is a white suburban Baby Boomer who has a college education and an annual income of more than $80,000. Like CVS shoppers, Walgreens customers have an affinity for M&M's and Reese's candies and Hallmark greeting cards, but prefer Coca Cola sodas where CVS customers prefer Colgate toothpaste. Just 1.3% of a Walgreens shopper's total dollars are spent at Walgreens, compared with 11% of their spending at Walmart.
☆ WHO is investigating 1,716 health workers in China infected with coronavirus
  + stars: | 2020-02-14 | by ( Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
World health officials are working with Chinese authorities to determine when the 1,716 health workers in the country were infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus, World Health Organization officials said Friday. Earlier in the day, China's National Health Commission said that 1,716 health workers in the country had been infected with the coronavirus and six of them have died. It was the first time China published figures specifically relating to infected medical personnel. She said there are currently no health workers in the U.S. that have contracted the virus. World health officials have said the respiratory disease is capable of spreading through human-to-human contact, droplets carried through sneezing and coughing and germs left on inanimate objects.
☆ A nuclear attack would most likely target one of these 6 US cities — but an expert says none of them are prepared
  + stars: | 2019-12-17 | by ( Aria Bendix | Taylor Ardrey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
A nuclear attack on US soil would most likely target one of six cities: New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Washington, DC. A nuclear attack in a large metropolitan area is one of the 15 disaster scenarios for which the US Federal Emergency Management Agency has an emergency strategy. That includes the six urban areas that Redlener thinks are the most likely targets of a nuclear attack: New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. "Can you imagine a public official keeping buildings intact for fallout shelters when the real-estate market is so tight?" Both experts agreed that for a city to be prepared for a nuclear attack, it must acknowledge that such an attack is possible — even if the threat is remote.
☆ Yemen crisis: How you can help
  + stars: | 2015-04-06 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Since Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and intense fighting began in Yemen in late March, it’s estimated that 600 people have been killed. The International Committee of the Red Cross called for an immediate 24-hour ceasefire, to allow humanitarian aid in the most needed areas. As fighting continues in Yemen, several organizations are trying to help provide food, water and medical supplies that are desperately needed. While groups are trying to deploy the necessary resources to Yemen, some have had to temporarily evacuate their staffs for security reasons. Here’s how you can help:Action Against HungerCAREDoctors Without BordersInternational Committee of the Red CrossInternational Rescue CommitteeMercy CorpsOxfam InternationalSave the ChildrenUNICEFUnited Nations FoundationWorld Food Programme
☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
  + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +57 min
Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.
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