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Maths scores drop globally, but US still trails other countries
New York Times, Published on 06/12/2023
» The math performance of US teenagers has sharply declined since 2018, with scores lower than 20 years ago and with American students continuing to trail global competitors, according to the results of a key international exam released on Tuesday.
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YouTube streamer faces riot charge after park erupts in chaos
New York Times, Published on 05/08/2023
» NEW YORK: A popular social media streamer faced a charge of inciting a riot Friday when an event at Manhattan's Union Square Park where he planned to give away video game consoles descended into mayhem, drawing a crowd estimated at several thousand young people.
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19 children, 2 adults killed in Texas school massacre
New York Times, Published on 25/05/2022
» UVALDE, Texas: A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in a rural Texas elementary school, a state police official said, in the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade ago.
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Capturing the anarchy in the Sex Pistols
New York Times, Published on 21/05/2022
» LONDON: “Are we doing any spitting?” asked a man in the crowd at the 100 Club, a small, red-walled underground space, redolent of spilled beer, cigarette smoke and a thousand lost nights, just off London’s Oxford Street.
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CDC: Covid may raise risk of diabetes in children
New York Times, Published on 08/01/2022
» Children who have recovered from Covid-19 appear to be at significantly increased risk of developing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.
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New Thai cave rescue movie includes Navy Seals footage
New York Times, Published on 07/10/2021
» NEW YORK: Documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi lives in fear of not telling a complete story. What if there is another angle to explore? More footage to uncover? Is her exploration of a topic ever really complete? Those feelings were occupying large swaths of her brain back in May when she was finally able to travel to Thailand.
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After death in ring, fight continues over limiting child boxing
New York Times, Published on 24/12/2018
» THAT PHANOM: Sprawled on a bamboo mat, Supattra Inthirat closed her eyes as her father massaged her hard arms with oil and menthol. In preparation for her 15th muay Thai bout, her father whispered a prayer into her ear.
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Brexit proving good news for discounters
Business, New York Times, Published on 05/08/2017
» At the vast Sainsbury's grocery store in south London's Tooting Broadway neighbourhood, a basket of milk, eggs, bread, cornflakes and butter will cost shoppers £4 and 70 pence, or about $6.15. A short walk away at Aldi and Lidl -- two German discount grocery stores -- those same items amount to £3.92.
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Dramatic rescues unfold all across waterlogged Houston
New York Times, Published on 28/08/2017
» HOUSTON — The rain had begun to fall again Sunday afternoon when there was a roar over Interstate 610.
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Ringling circus to close after 146-year run
New York Times, Published on 16/04/2017
» It began in 1871 as PT Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome. It survived the Depression, two world wars and the new media of its time. But on May 21, the world’s most historic circus, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, will shut down after failing to sufficiently dazzle the children of the smartphone age and to overcome the fierce opposition of the animal rights movement.
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