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The NFL spent decades attempting to downplay any long-term effects of the concussions its players succumb to on a regular basis due to helmet-to-helmet contact.
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When the Great Recession hit in 2008, I had finally obtained a part-time position at The Free Lance-Star newspaper in Fredericksburg.
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UVA Cancer’s CAR T-cell therapy is a cutting-edge type of cancer treatment which supercharges immune cells to better destroy cancer cells.
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Mother Teresa said: “If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”
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Yes, there are electric vehicles (EVs) available that can be charged using solar power.
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I’ve always thought peoples’ yards say something about their owners. My eighth-acre plot in the city of Salisbury, MD, is shaggy and cluttered, a study in dishevelment, testament to fecund dishabille. Indulgent — but underlain by purpose, great and small.
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Life is full of strange, but true facts. One of them is that a court in Norfolk oversees litigation regarding the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
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Burning parcels of land intentionally, known as controlled burning, has long been a controversial practice aimed at reducing the risk of larger, uncontrolled wildfires.
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Student loan borrowers in Virginia have the fourth highest student loan debt in the United States, after Maryland, Georgia and Delaware.
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Virginia is among 19 states dealing with the influx of the Asian longhorned tick, a vector for the parasite Theileria orientalis. The parasite can cause theileriosis, or anemia in livestock, including cattle.
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