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10 Best Non-Musical Plays Inspired By Movies
Across the history of cinema, there have been plenty of great movies adapted from acclaimed plays, but it’s not as common the other way around. This is something we more often see with musicals, which are inherently theatrical, but sometimes straight dramas, dark psychological movies, or beloved franchise films translate incredibly well from screen to stage. From an iconic Alfred…
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Iran war rages as Trump touts strike on bridge, warns more coming, and Iran hits Gulf states
36m ago U.N. Security Council to take up Strait of Hormuz security proposal on Saturday Iran’s ability to wreak havoc in the global economy by paralyzing commercial shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has proved a major strategic advantage, and world leaders have struggled to figure out how to reopen the waterway. The United Nations Security Council had…
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Everyone Thinks Iran ‘Closed’ the Strait of Hormuz — What It Actually Did Is Worse
The Strait of Hormuz Energy Hostage Crisis Explained On March 31, Donald Trump said the war with Iran could end in “two weeks, maybe three,” adding that the United States might not need a formal agreement to declare victory. His stated objective is now much narrower, though it reflects comments he has made since the 1980s: degrade Iran to the…
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Paying for HIV Medications and Related Health Care
Earlier this year, Tori Samuel — 43 and diagnosed with HIV when she was 19 — got quite a scare. Her home state of Florida announced that, because of a supposed budget shortfall of $120 million, it was going to dramatically cut the annual income eligibility cap for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) from about $60,000 yearly for individuals…
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Iran retains half its launchers; first Western ship crosses Hormuz
Iran fired on targets across West Asia, sparking multiple blazes at a Kuwaiti oil refinery, while American and Israeli airstrikes hit the Islamic Republic on Friday, April 3, as the war neared the end of its fifth week unabated and the UN Security Council prepared to meet over Tehran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Despite claims from the US…
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NCERT declared deemed-to-be university, allowed to award degrees
New Delhi: The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been formally declared a deemed-to-be university empowering it to award its own degrees, officials said. “The Ministry of Education, on the advice of the University Grants Commission (UGC), NCERT along with its six constituent units have been declared as deemed to be University under distinct category,” an official…
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Losing a parent hits harder with fewer siblings
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Losing a parent in adulthood can take a measurable toll on mental health, and new research suggests that having siblings may ease that burden in ways we are only beginning to understand. Study: Number of siblings…
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Allentown Film Festival unreels for fourth year – Lehigh Valley Press
The Allentown Film Festival is back for its fourth year. “We had a little over 1,100 submissions. We have 112 official selections. That includes the selections for the local film competitions and the worldwide submissions,” says Allentown Film Festival Director Alan Younkin. The fourth annual Allentown Film Festival is April 9 – 12, Civic Theatre of Allentown’s Nineteenth Street Theatre…
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FactChecking Trump’s Prime-Time Address on Iran
A month after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump addressed the nation in a prime-time speech on April 1, saying the military operation was “getting very close” to completing its mission. Trump repeated some false and questionable claims we’ve written about before. Trump said the U.S. “totally obliterated” three nuclear facility sites in Iran last…
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AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains
A friend in Indonesia recently told me about a conversation he had with ChatGPT. He had typed a question in Indonesian – Bahasa Indonesia – about how to handle a difficult family dispute. The chatbot responded fluently, in perfect Indonesian, with advice about communication strategies and conflict resolution. The grammar was flawless. The tone was appropriate. And yet something felt…
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