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In the early days of the pandemic, grocery store workers found themselves foisted onto the front lines, forced to brave infection while little else remained open. As panic-buyers pushed through the doors in droves, grocery employees were praised as “heroes” for their essential role in keeping society running. Most had little choice but to keep coming to work.
Many major chains offered financial incentives, such as bonuses or temporary raises, to low-wage workers braving possible infection on a daily basis. But much of that so-called “hero pay” had quietly slipped away by May, even as the virus continued to rage.
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This essay gives a brief overview of the events of 26-27 August 1883, when the volcanic island of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded; it generated tsunamis which killed over 36,000 people, was heard 3,000 miles away, and produced measurable changes in sea level and air pressure across the world. The essay then discusses the findings of the Royal Society’s Report on Krakatoa, and the reports in the periodical press of lurid sunsets resulting from Krakatoa’s dust moving through the atmosphere. It closes by examining literature inspired by Krakatoa, including a letter by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poem by Alfred Tennyson, and novels by R. M. Ballantyne and M. P. Shiel.
by E.M. Reapy
Elizabeth Reapy’s Natalie is one of those characters who stays with you long after you’ve finished the book she occupies. If “occupies” is even the right word, given Natalie’s preoccupation with not taking up too much space in the world. Fixated on her body and her tendency to binge at times of stress, she takes the reader on a journey – both literal and metaphorical. As she moves through the world, the book begins to resemble a series of linked short stories more than a novel, but there’s something very fitting about where the chapter breaks tend to fall. The girl we first meet in Bali is very at odds with herself; but by the time she finishes up in Dublin, she is much more comfortable in her own skin, and well able to stand up for herself and articulate her needs and desires. Along the way she meets a host of interesting characters – some interesting, some off-putting – and learns something about herself in the process. Skin is a book to be savor
Mar Joseph Srampickal is consecrated Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Great Britain at Preston North End stadium on Oct. 9, 2016. Photo credits: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.
CNA Staff, Dec 15, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- On Oct. 9, 2016, 12,000 people filled a soccer stadium in northern England for a momentous event. The edge of the pitch was lined by women in saris carrying bright umbrellas with silver fringes jingling in the breeze. Then came a procession led by altar servers in pink robes bearing towering candlesticks.
They were followed by a stream of priests and bishops, many dressed in a striking red-and-white garment known as a