A Country You May Not Have Heard Of Could Be Washed Away: Here’s What’s Happening Today
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Here’s what we’re reading:
1. A country you may not have heard of, that could be washed away
“Kiribati, a remote Pacific nation, is threatened by rising seas and climate change, but what action should be taken is the subject of much debate.”
2. Kevin Durant signs with Golden State Warriors
“The primary mandate I had for myself in making this decision was to have it based on the potential for my growth as a player — as that has always steered me in the right direction.”
3. Aloe vera is a lie
“Everything you’ve been told about its sunburn-healing properties is propaganda.”
4. Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 87
“By the sheer force of his personality and his gift for the haunting phrase, Mr. Wiesel, who had been liberated from Buchenwald as a 16-year-old with the indelible tattoo A-7713 on his arm, gradually exhumed the Holocaust from the burial ground of the history books.”
5. Gay Toronto police officer’s open letter to Pride after BLM seeks removal of police floats
“LGBTQ cops have struggled for decades. I am fortunate, because it is their struggles in the past, that have made my orientation an irrelevant factor in my workplace interactions.”
