The lowrider is back: The glorious return of cruising to the streets of L.A. Daniel Hernandez, Allen J. Schaben, Myung Chun
Lowrider life: Cruising is back on the streets of L.A.
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WORTH showing off has a story.
Consider Mike Molina s powder blue 1972 E-100 Econoline Ford van, which he inherited after his father and then his mother died during the early months of the pandemic. Parked on Van Nuys Boulevard, the in-process remodel looks a bit out of sorts, not quite as polished as the other lowriders and vintage cars drifting by. But it emotes a certain character, in the way a well-loved car often does.
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In India, bodies of
COVID-19 victims are piling up so fast that family members have to cremate them in parking lots. In Brazil, gravediggers work through the night. In Germany, the death toll has tripled in recent months and the federal government has just imposed its toughest lockdown yet.
Even as optimism abounds in the United States, where cases are in steep decline and the vaccine supply has begun to exceed the demand, the COVID-19 pandemic has reached one of its bleakest points as global vaccination campaigns sputter and new, faster-spreading variants take hold.
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A record 5.7 million new cases were reported worldwide over the last week, nearly double the seven-day average in late February. The death toll now approaching 3.1 million grew by more than 87,000.
Sometimes, I wonder if I’m ever going to get over how some humans have behaved during this pandemic. First, the good news: As of this week, more than 65 mill
Connie Schultz
WASHINGTON Sometimes, I wonder if I’m ever going to get over how some humans have behaved during this pandemic.
First, the good news: As of this week, more than 65 million people in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Millions more are well on their way.
Now, the pull-out-your-hair news: A Pew Research study reports that, of the 41 million white evangelical adults in the U.S., a whopping 45% of them said in late February they don’t plan to get vaccinated.
From The New York Times: “‘If we can’t get a significant number of white evangelicals to come around on this, the pandemic is going to last much longer than it needs to,’ said Jamie Aten, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, an evangelical institution in Illinois.”