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Welcome to Sunday. Our top five articles of the week are listed below.
From the archive: Earlier this week drug giant Pfizer announced promising preliminary results in Stage 3 trials of its COVID-19 vaccine, raising hopes that we may soon have a powerful preventive tool against the spreading pandemic. Yet there are many reasons for caution – perhaps the largest being the fact that the vaccine has to be transported and stored at ultra-low temperatures. Many in our newsroom were reminded of this September article by Anna Nagurney of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who writes about the shortcomings of the global cold supply chain.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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President-elect Biden promises a new White House agenda and style.
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Brian J Purnell, Bowdoin College; Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Neta C. Crawford, Boston University
Scholars of race, foreign policy and the Supreme Court give their informed predictions of what to expect under a Biden administration.
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The moment Lester Holt of NBC News cut into a statement from President Donald Trump.
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Chris Lamb, IUPUI
When President Trump claimed in a press conference that the election was being stolen from him, three major TV networks cut off their coverage. A media scholar asks if this is a turning point.
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Randy Stein, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Alexander Swan, Eureka College; Michelle Sarraf, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
How much weight would you put on a scientist's expertise versus the opinion of a random stranger? People on either end of the political spectrum decide differently what seems true.
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William Chittenden, Texas State University
The US economy historically does better under Democratic presidents than Republicans, with far fewer months spent in recession.
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Matthew R Sanderson, Kansas State University; Burke Griggs, Washburn University; Jacob A. Miller, Kansas State University
An invisible crisis is brewing in US farm country as the overpumped Ogallala-High Plains Aquifer drains. The key drivers are federal farm subsidies and the tax code.
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