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Nature A young scientist retraces the work of Edward Taylor, a prolific herpetologist (a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians) who also led a double life as a spy: “Taylor was called to duty again in 1944, when he was 54 and war raged in the Pacific. According to records in the US National Archives, he joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to train agents in Sri Lanka then a British territory that provided ready access to Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia and other areas that the Japanese had infiltrated. Scientific work, an OSS officer explained to one of Taylor’s superiors, was ‘excellent cover.’ ....
73 new domestic confirmed, 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases. Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 community (at Daxing District) remains at High Risk. Hebei Province: Hebei Provincial Health Commission reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 98 domestic confirmed case recovered & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 437 domestic confirmed cases (10 serious, 344 moderate and 83 mild) & 40 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province: Xingtai did not report any new domestic positive case. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 36 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. Nangong District remains at High Risk, 1 residential compound at Longyao County remains at Medium Risk. ....
By Jerrie Whiteley Herald Democrat By this summer, anyone wanting to bid on a piece of property at a county tax sale in Grayson County will have to get friendly with a computer. Tuesday, Grayson County commissioners approved a contract with GovEase Auction LLC to start conducting the county s tax auctions online. There is an in-person sale already set for this spring but by the time the summer on rolls around the process will have moved online, Grayson County Tax Assessor Collector Bruce Stidham. Part of the reasoning behind this is the recent pandemic and people s reluctance to be in a room full of other people. Another reason, is that it will open the process up for more participants. ....
Ben Smith, The New York Times Published: 18 Jan 2021 01:04 PM BdST Updated: 18 Jan 2021 01:04 PM BdST The Fox News newsroom in New York, April 17, 2019. The New York Times On Oct 12, 2020, Fox News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member, implicitly acknowledging what saner minds knew long ago: that the network had repeatedly hyped a false claim that the young staff member, Seth Rich, was involved in leaking DNC emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Russian intelligence officers, in fact, had hacked and leaked the emails.) ); } Fox’s decision to settle with the Rich family came just before its marquee hosts, Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity, were set to be questioned under oath in the case, a potentially embarrassing moment. And Fox paid so much that the network didn’t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on FoxNews.com. ....
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