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The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting widespread shift to remote learning have brought major changes to physical education.
Kids are shooting hoops with rolled up socks, but pandemic physical education is not canceled | Kelly Field | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostOne review concluded that the available evidence doesn’t suggest widespread harm to humans—but added that the evidence is limited.
Microplastics are everywhere. Here’s what that means for our health. | Ula Chrobak | February 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThat’s worrisome to some health experts, who note that other events celebrated with widespread get-togethers, such as Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, have been accompanied by a jump in infections.
Super spreader Sunday? Experts worry Super Bowl could trigger coronavirus explosion | Brittany Shammas, Fenit Nirappil, Mark Maske | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostVerily, a health tech sister company of Google, was touted early on as a potential solution to provide widespread testing across the country.
For $149, this Oakland Airport vending machine dispenses covid tests | Rachel Lerman | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostThe Fed’s ongoing intervention in the market will probably hold down rates, but Blake anticipates they will rise slowly as coronavirus vaccinations become more widespread.
Uncertainty surrounding economy holds mortgage rates in place | Kathy Orton | February 4, 2021 | Washington Post
But the inability to measure progress in the ISIS campaign is widespread.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhere the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism | Arthur Chu | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThose same studies unsurprisingly reveal widespread distrust of police officers among sex workers.
To Catch a Sex Worker: A&E’s Awful, Exploitative Ambush Show | Samantha Allen | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTwidespread, popular protests began last week after the local grand jury decision.
Eric Garner Protesters Have a Direct Line to City Hall | Jacob Siegel | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is this very sensitive issue that has galvanized widespread resistance from previously loyal campesinos.
China’s Nicaragua Canal Could Spark a New Central America Revolution | Nina Lakhani | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDiscontent was so widespread that the new general at once ordered all troops, save some three thousand, to leave the capital.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonMr. Ward is a man of great talents—his fame is widespread as an orator and man of learning, and needs no encomium from us.
The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousScotch intellectual activity is the result of a widespread education which is within the reach of the poorest.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellAn examination of Elizabethan writings does not conduce to the idea of the term having had a widespread acceptation.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian Sharman
British Dictionary definitions for widespread
/ (ˈwaɪdˌsprɛd) /
extending over a wide area
accepted by or occurring among many people
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