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Welcome to Sunday! The top five stories on our website this week are displayed below.
Editor’s pick: My favorite holiday movie is the 1966 version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” I can remember lying in front of the TV in my pajamas watching it with my mother and siblings. The spooky narration by Boris Karloff and catchy jazz vocalizations still make me smile decades later.
In a 2020 piece from our archive, S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, who studies religion and film, describes the yearly tradition of gathering to watch favorite movies as a sort of secular ritual. The pleasure of this ritual is connecting people to “the power of family, true love, the meaning of home.”
Rodriguez-Plate’s article also mentions a handful of holiday classics that I’ve never seen. I’m adding them to my watch list this year in hopes of starting a new tradition.
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Damage in Mayfield, Kentucky, after a tornado swept through the area on Dec. 11, 2021.
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Alisa Hass, Middle Tennessee State University; Kelsey Ellis, University of Tennessee
Tornadoes in December aren’t unusual in the Gulf Coast and lower Mississippi Valley states, but the Dec. 10-11 outbreak was extreme and far-reaching.
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Understanding how much protection a vaccine offers is not as simple as it sounds.
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Melissa Hawkins, American University
For a number of reasons, as time goes on vaccines become less effective. So how do researchers calculate how well vaccines are working?
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Nathaniel Hafer, UMass Chan Medical School
Knowing when and how often to use rapid tests is key to getting an accurate picture of your COVID-19 status.
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William Hauk, University of South Carolina
Inflation is rising at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan was president.
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Rayna M. Letourneau, University of South Florida
The US has a growing demand for nurses. Yet nursing schools are turning away many qualified candidates.
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