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Textbook Complaint: Texas mom calls out publisher McGraw-Hill for labeling slaves as ‘workers,’ ‘immigrants’

Textbook Complaint: Texas mom calls out publisher McGraw-Hill for labeling slaves as 'workers,' 'immigrants'

Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill said they will rewrite a textbook after a Texas mom made a complaint saying slaves were considered as “immigrant workers” in her son’s text book. Roni Dean-Burren took to social media last week after her son made her aware of the wording of a passage in his 9th-grade “World Geography” textbook that refers to African slaves as …

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Expectant dads also get depressed, new study says

Expectant dads also get depressed, new study says

A significant number of men on the verge of becoming fathers get depressed during their partner’s pregnancy, a new study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre suggests. A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) sheds light on fathers’ mental health by releasing the first study to report the prevalence of …

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Pilot dies during American Airlines flight, plane lands safely “Video”

Pilot dies during American Airlines flight, plane lands safely (Video)

An American Airlines pilot died during a flight from Phoenix to Boston after becoming ill, but the co-pilot was able to safely land the plane. The co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 550 took control and made an emergency landing in Syracuse, New York Monday morning after the captain began feeling ill, the airline said. There were 147 passengers and five …

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Volcanic eruptions can reduce river flows by up to 10 percent

Volcanic eruptions can reduce river flows by up to 10 percent

Make your mind up. Big volcanic eruptions have a dramatic effect on rivers, sometimes boosting their flow, sometimes reducing it to a trickle. In the first study of its kind, a team of scientists from the University of Edinburgh sought to better understand how big volcanic eruptions, which can trigger a shortage of rainfall in many regions of the world, …

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A third of cacti facing extinction “study warns”

A third of cacti facing extinction, study warns

Almost a third of cacti species in the world are at risk of extinction, making the taxonomic group more threatened than mammals and birds. Researchers say the first ever comprehensive, global assessment of cacti is a “disturbing” reflection of the scale of the illegal wildlife trade. The illegal trafficking of live plants and seeds, increased agriculture and unsustainable harvesting has …

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