3 d. ago Extreme winds cause 30ft waves on Lake Erie, flooding parts of Buffalo

Winds reached up to 80mph in the Buffalo area, causing flooding

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3 d. ago Extreme winds cause nearly 30ft waves on Lake Erie, exposing the bed and blowing water into Buffalo

Winds reached up to 80mph in the Buffalo area, causing flooding

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3 d. ago Seiches cause nearly 30ft waves on Lake Erie, exposing the bed and blowing water into Buffalo

Winds reached up to 80mph in the Buffalo area, causing flooding

Politics

3 d. ago Seiche cause nearly 30ft waves on Lake Erie, exposing the bed and blowing water into Buffalo

Winds reached up to 80mph in the Buffalo area, causing flooding

Politics

7 d. ago My weirdest Christmas: on Boxing Day I vomited in the sink – and began to suspect I had a mysterious condition

At first I thought my spinning head and nausea were symptoms of a hangover. But could they be connected to a documentary I had made on Havana syndrome?Waking foggy-headed and with the room spinning on 26 December is surely not an uncommon condition. Who among us hasn’t felt the effects of overindulgence on Christmas Day?These were my immediate thoughts when I rose in such a state in my parents’ house in Dublin two years ago. An hour later, the room continued its relentless swirl, nausea was building and it was becoming hard to stand. So far, so Christmas hangover. I remained in bed and waited for things to blow over. They didn’t. Gradually, family members stuck their heads into my childhood bedroom and wondered if everything was OK. I could only say that I felt quite strange. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart

The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academiaLast Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a brief message announcing that one of the country’s most experienced and accomplished public health leaders, Dr Mary T Bassett, would “step down” as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. The email struck a polite, bureaucratic tone, thanking her for her service and offering an upbeat rationale for a new “focus on children’s health”.It omitted the fact that, according to a Harvard Crimson source, Bassett had been asked to resign just two hours earlier and instructed to vacate her office by the end of the year. The decision was not a routine administrative transition. It was the culmination of a year of escalating pressure on the Center for Health and Human Rights for its work on the health and hu...

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