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Joseph Gray Focuses on Next Generations at the Top of His Sport

[ad_1] With 20 national championships and nine international gold medals in six disciplines, Joseph Gray is by far the most decorated American mountain runner. In the broader trail running discipline, which includes everything from 100-mile ultramarathons to ultra steep kilometer races, he is in the pantheon of the best ever, as a four-time world champion …

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Jorge Drexler’s Music Connects Genres, Generations and Continents

[ad_1] At one point he said, “This is not a burden. It’s an identity.” On previous albums, she sang about Drexler exodus and parallel universes. Opens “Tinta y Tiempo” with the carefully arranged “El Plan Maestro” (“Master Plan”). The song envisions the evolutionary moment when a single-celled organism tired of dividing on its own and …

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Does It Make Sense to Categorize People According to Generations?

[ad_1] GENERATION MYTHWhy Your Birth Is Less Important Than You Thinkby Bobby Duffy Why is it unacceptable to make sweeping generalizations about people on the basis of gender, race, sexuality, or nationality, but it’s perfectly fine to stereotype them based on arbitrarily defined “generations”? Millennials (roughly, those born between 1980 and 1995) have been demonized …

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Review: Three Generations Waiting for Justice in ‘Cullud Wattah’

[ad_1] Water can be a force for life or death. That Flint’s municipal supply, Mich., has slowly killed three generations of Black women living under one roof is not a dramatic revelation, but the embodiment of years of brutal reality. “Cullud Wattah” by Erika Dickerson-Despenza. The playwright uncovers the human costs behind familiar and devastating …

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Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and

[ad_1] SKINSHIP stories by Yoon Choi 284 p. Alfred A. Knopf. $26. The word “skinship” is a little hard to spot. In medical contexts, it is used to describe the physical bond between a mother and child. But in Korean culture, it’s a combination of the words “skin” and “friendship”, which means non-sexual but affectionate …

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College Athletes Make Money As Rules Fade Under Pressure For Generations

[ad_1] Still, Miami, which hosted the Florida law signing ceremony last year, was among the schools that were most publicly advocating for name, image and likeness changes. In December, the school said it signed an agreement with INFLCR, which works with many schools to help students understand the opportunities ahead. At the time, football coach …

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