The predicted peak blooming period for this year’s cherry blossom season in Washington is being announced. The window is expected to be announced Wednesday at a news conference at the Newseum. Last year’s peak bloom happened March 25. According to the National Park Service website, however, from 2013 …
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[[As people age, their bones can get thinner, their memories can fail, their hormone levels decline and they are more likely to suffer from heart disease. The U.S. National Institutes of Health funded studies to see if testosterone therapy in men could help offset the ravages of age. VOA’s Carol …
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In the shadow of New York City, a group of farmers is tending their crop and prepping it for shipment into the Big Apple on a same day basis. But there isn’t a whole lot of room for a farmer’s field in Kearny, New Jersey. That’s where some high tech …
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Vietnam is coming under pressure from lawmakers in Europe to improve its human rights record before ratification of an EU free trade deal that the Communist government prizes after the loss of a major U.S.-led agreement. European Parliament members voiced concerns in late February about Vietnam as its Subcommittee on …
your ad hereFormer President Obama, First Lady Land Book Deals
Barack and Michelle Obama have book deals. The former president and first lady have signed with Penguin Random House, the publisher announced Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed for the books, which several publishers had competed for, although the deals are likely in the tens of millions of dollars. Both …
your ad hereBeatty Urges Academy President to Clarify Oscar Fiasco
Warren Beatty says Academy of Motion Pictures President Cheryl Boone Isaacs should “publicly clarify” what happened during Sunday night’s best picture presentation “as soon as possible.” Beatty released a statement Tuesday to The Associated Press in which he declined to comment further on the debacle that led to him …
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A technique using high-powered lasers to reveal hidden soft tissue alongside bones in fossils is giving scientists insight into one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life: small feathered dinosaurs taking flight as birds. Scientists said Tuesday that they had used the method on fossils of the …
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Musician Ashade Pearce plays songs about being a refugee in West Africa, and he has a message for U.S. President Donald Trump. “Not all refugees are bad,” the guitarist with Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars said before a recent performance in a New York City suburb. “You should not judge …
your ad hereWarm Weather Expected to Speed Blooming of Cherry Blossoms
The unusually warm weather in the nation’s capital is prompting the U.S. Park Service to revise its annual cherry blossom forecast, and will announce on Wednesday a revised period for peak blooms. The National Cherry Blossom Festival typically coincides with the “peak bloom” of the nearly 1,700 cherry blossom trees …
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Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surgical repairs for the blurry close-up vision that is a bane of middle age. But who’s really a good candidate to toss their …
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Greece and its lenders resumed a long-stalled review of its bailout Tuesday, with the government in Athens braced to commit to yet more austerity in exchange for the funds the country needs to remain solvent. The review has dragged on for months, partly because of a rift between the European …
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Oscar-winning film Moonlight presents a view of Miami that never shows up in a tourism video. Far from the sun and glamour of South Beach or the artists and hipsters of Wynwood, it shows predominantly black communities, truly known by few outside the people who live there. And it’s recognizably …
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