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This year, McHenry High School District 156 has 28 new-language learners from countries including Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, Thailand and Guatemala. A multicultural fair – the school’s first such event Saturday – can help longtime and new residents learn more about each other, Upper Campus Principal Jeff Prickett said. It is an idea brought from Burlington Central High School, where her husband works.
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2 years ago Read more at Shaw Local

Iowa won the women's national championship game last season. Caitlin Clark is a magician and is always capable of going on a scoring barrage, Voepel says. The Hawkeyes have the ability to keep up with South Carolina's strengths. Iowa has the best player on the floor.
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2 years ago Read more at ESPN

Tracy Anderson has come a long way since becoming a celebrity trainer. The words “Gwyneth & Shakira’s personal trainer” may be emblazoned across her early fitness DVDs. “The press labelled me as something that isn’t the main part of who I am,” Anderson says when we speak.
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2 years ago Read more at The Times

Semaglutide – the active ingredient in Ozempic – is half as likely to suffer severe symptoms of the condition, including breathlessness and fatigue. Heart failure is an incurable long-term condition that causes the heart to stop pumping effectively. It affects about one million Britons which often leaves them housebound and needing regular hospital treatment – and one in five patients do not survive longer than a year from diagnosis.
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2 years ago Read more at Daily Mail

The Dorset Knob Festival will take place in July after a gap of five years. The quirky event is a celebration of the traditional Dorset knob biscuit. There will also be a knob-and-spoon race and pin-the-knob on the Cerne Abbas Giant.
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2 years ago Read more at The Sun

Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative condition in which brain cells slowly degenerate and die leading to a progressive deterioration in a person’s ability to control movement. In the UK, around 153,000 people are living with Parkinson's. The world’s first clinical trials are only now underway.
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2 years ago Read more at Express

Lottie Woad birdied the final two holes to win the Augusta National Women's Amateur. The 20-year-old led going into the final round at the home of the Masters. She was overtaken by American Bailey Shoemaker, who shot a bogey-free 66. That gave her a three-round total of eight-under-par 208.
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2 years ago Read more at BBC.com

Conor Glass, 26, blithely recalled himself playing a Hogan Cup final for St Pat’s Maghera when he was 15 after being tagged on to the squad as a sub keeper and winning the final by ten points. The AFL club Hawthorn had someone in the crowd watching him that day. A year later, Glass was in Australia trying out the life for a couple of weeks.
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2 years ago Read more at The Times

Leinster face La Rochelle in the Investec Champions Cup quarter-finals on 12 April. Ben Kay has warned the Top 14 giants come alive in the final 20 minutes of their matches. The pair faced off in the last two finals of this competition.
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2 years ago Read more at Eurosport COM

South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley says trans women should be allowed to play in women's sports. She says she knows that saying this is going to lead her to be bullied and harassed. "Now the barnstormer people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me," she said.
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2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Eurosport UK