d6 items of interest week of january 21

In my high school US history textbook the civil war was three chapters, but Vietnam was only a single page. Teaching the clone wars and preceding was probably the same. Better to leave it a single “After an attempted assassination the Emperor declared an Empire and won the war and everyone was happy again.

And so, even as Binayak Sen, Vara Vara Rao and others describe how displacement on account of big projects is taking away the poor tribal’s tenuous lifeline and driving him to the brink of starvation, in this magazine you got a breathtakingly different take on land as an issue. It told you that farmers were selling part of their land, even when they had modest holdings, to transform their bank balances, because the price of rural land had shot up. The magazine went to villages not far from Bangalore or Gurgaon to report that “Ford Endeavours rub bonnets with Skodas and Scorpios.” They did not go to Dantewada or Lalgarh.

After Vice President Kamala Harris received her second dose of the COVID 19 vaccine in a televised event at the National Institutes of Health in January, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D Ohio) phone lit up with calls from constituents who were “newly curious” about getting vaccinated themselves, she told The New York Times. As Beatty explained, watching a Black woman receive the vaccine “gave people hope and gave people education.” Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to die from the coronavirus, the Times notes, but they are far less likely to be inoculated, in large part because of a lack of access, but also, some experts have pointed out, because of longstanding wariness about government driven health programs.

The Meshlicious will be available in matte black for pre order starting February 9th, 2021, at MSRP $119 USD. Accessories will be available in mid March, including an additional side mesh panel, a tempered glass panel, a HDMI/DisplayPort cable, and a PCIe 4.0/3.0 riser cable. A full mesh Meshlicious case will be released in black and white, in May for $129, with pre order starting in April.

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