She was a two-term South Carolina state representative and a Republican majority whip, and she was considering running to chair an influential committee. Then, after her fellow lawmakers voted to grant themselves raises by voice vote, she became the face of an unpopular — but ultimately successf...
State- and county-level maps describe increased prostate cancer mortality in a band of states spanning from Washington, DC, to Louisiana. A recent report has documented that birth in the so-called Stroke Belt (SB) region in the southern US predicts mortality from stroke independently of ...
Everything in nature—flowering, breeding, migration—lives and dies by a clock that is being recalibrated by climate change. We don’t yet know how severe the consequences may be.
s energy policy looks like. Duke Energy suggests a mix that includes significant amounts of natural gas, hydropower, and nuclear energy. On the other hand, solar energy companies and state environmentalist groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) are arguing for solar and wind to...
Scott Commins, a University of North Carolina researcher who co-authored both papers published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health officials said they are not aware of any confirmed deaths, but people with the allergy have described it as bewildering and t...
focused on similar territory — but something like Raoul Peck’s“Silver Dollar Road.”The veteran Haitian documentary filmmaker of the James Baldwin film“I Am Not Your Negro”details the Reels family’s decades-long fight to keep ownership of their 62-acre property on the North Carolina coast...
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“flyover state”是美国英语中的一个词条，指那些位于东西海岸(发达)城市之间的中部州，类似于“那鸟不拉屎的地儿，我们每次坐飞机都是直接飞过去停都不停的”，可见满满的鄙夷、蔑视感。当然，有时候也是中性表达，仅仅指一个地方比较偏僻（社会发达程度、知名度方面，而非地理位置上），好多美国人...
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