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Women in health care are already overworked. Where do they turn when the toll of coronavirus hits them?
(iStock; Lily illustration) “We don’t know what to do,” says Catherine Jones, a registered nurse at a Boston-area community health center. As the uncertainty surrounding covid-19 quickly mounted in recent weeks, 30-year-old Jones and her colleagues at their...
How to Save a Dying Language
Solomon Enos The orphan was surveying the sea from atop a lava-rock shrine when he saw them—omens that looked just as his uncle, a kahuna, had foretold. There was a flock of airborne stingrays amid a series of towers, all hovering over a forest floating...
Six-Figure Price Tags Are Coming to Colleges
It took a little more than a decade for the University of Chicago to reinvent itself, going from a well-regarded but largely regional school to an extremely selective university with national prestige. In 2006, the Hyde Park university admitted more than a third of...
Why Is Middle School So Hard for So Many People?
Middle school. The very memory of it prompts disgust. Here’s a thing no one’s thinking: Geez, I wish I still looked the way I did when I was 12. Middle school is the worst. Tweenhood, which starts around age 9, is horrifying for a few reasons. For one,...
How Twin XL Beds Took Over College Campuses
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several outbreaks of infectious disease in the U.S., including the flu, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, prompted public-health officials and homemaking experts to suggest a tweak to American...
The College That Became a Prison
As Yankton College’s only full-time employee, Jan Garrity knows how tough running a postsecondary institution can be. There are students to educate and degrees to confer; faculty and staff to hire and pay; a campus to maintain and a mission to uphold. But the college...