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Colorado High School Activities Association approved a proposal to end the sport’s pilot status. Women’s flag football is now a scholarship sport at the college level. The addition of flag football bumps the number of fall sanctioned sports to 11, as it joins football, girls volleyball, boys soccer, boys and girls cross country, boys tennis.
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2 years ago Read more at Sentinel Colorado

The PENN Analyst: Truist analyst Barry Jonas upgrades Penn Entertainment from Hold to Buy and has a price target of $23. The Analyst Takeaways: Penn Entertainment launched ESPN Bet in November 2023 through a licensing deal with ESPN owner The Walt Disney Company DIS.
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2 years ago Read more at Benzinga

One study estimates that bacterial antimicrobial resistance was responsible for 1.27 million global deaths in 2019. Phage therapy relies on the use of viruses that kill bacteria. In phage therapy, bacteriophages bind to a unique bacterial receptor. These components assemble and create new viruses, which are released by lysing the bacterial cell. Once all the bacteria are lysed, they’ll stop multiplying.
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2 years ago Read more at Technology Networks

The multiple-award blanket purchase agreement will have a ceiling of $512 million over up to five years. Businesses and other entities interested in the program have until May 1 to respond. The IRS describes its enterprise case management system as a cloud-based platform that was stood up to aid in the agency's collection and analysis of data.
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2 years ago Read more at Washington Technology

The Wallis Annenberg Crossing will be the largest animal bridge in the world. For more than a decade, she’s advocated for Caltrans to build a bridge to help animals like LA’s famed mountain lion P22 to expand their geographic territory. Caltrans is installing more than 80 large concrete supports, called girders, to shape the bridge so it will hold animals that cross it as well as an entire natural ecosystem on top.
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2 years ago Read more at KCRW

About 50% of the world's chocolate originates from cacao trees in the West Africa countries of Ivory Coast and Ghana. The damaging virus is attacking cacao trees, resulting in harvest losses of between 15 and 50%.
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania. The $150 million project aims to improve management of natural resources and tourism assets. At least $100 million has already been disbursed for the project, which started in 2017.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

The top 10 audiobooks on Audible The Associated Press by The AP Press Nonfiction 1. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 2. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, snarrate by Sean Pratt and the author. Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

AHCJ is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. The 2023 contest drew 426 entries in 14 categories; there were 14 first-place winners. In Audio Reporting (large division), first place went to reporters Jonathan Davis, Michael I. Schiller and Taki Telonidis.
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2 years ago Read more at Association of Health Care Journalists

NCEI is proud to be in their 13th year of collaboration with the western North Carolina-based science expo. The Mountain Science Expo is a part of the NC SciFEST, a month-long event celebrating science outreach, impact, and education in North Carolina. More than a dozen organizations are participating in the expo this year, providing opportunities for people of all ages to interact with scientists and scientific educators.
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2 years ago Read more at National Centers for Environmental Information