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Poison ivy can work itchy evil on your skin – here’s how — Marjorie Montanez Wiscovich and Arthur Samia

pay for lending a helping hand. A couple days later, red patches appeared on his forearms and chest, which soon began to itch miserably and form water blisters. If you have ever spent any time outdoors – in the woods, working in the yard, even at the edges of a playground – maybe you’ve experienced something similar after encountering poison ivy. It’s not easy to forget.

Lawsuits over bans on teaching critical race theory are coming – here’s what won’t work, and what might — Frank LoMonte

Who owns the beach? It depends on state law and tide lines — Thomas Ankersen

As Americans flock to beaches this summer, their toes are sinking into some of the most hotly contested real estate in the United States.

Trump can’t beat Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in court – but the fight might be worth more than a win — Frank LoMonte

From condo salesman to reality TV host to leader of the free world, Donald Trump has occupied several lifetimes’ worth of identities over a remarkable career of reinventions.

Gifted education programs don’t benefit Black students like they do white students — Christopher Redding

Participating in a gifted and talented program improved high-ability students’ reading and math achievement, on average, nationwide, I found in a new study. However, in reading, these achievement gains were not universal.

The gas tax’s tortured history shows how hard it is to fund new infrastructure — Theodore J. Kury

As the Biden administration and Republicans negotiate a possible infrastructure spending package, how to pay for it has been a key sticking point.

Why hurricanes devastate some places over and over again – a meteorologist explains — Athena Masson

Video shows students still get paddled in US schools — F. Chris Curran

For students across America each year, the use of corporal punishment for violating school rules is still a routine part of their education.

Pandemic-stricken mass transit would get $85 billion in Biden stimulus plan – a down payment on reviving American cities — Ruth Steiner

Congress now has control over what kind of commute – good, bad, awful – workers returning to offices in the U.S. will have.

Roe v. Wade gave American women a choice about having children – here’s how that changed their lives — Constance Shehan

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case challenging a Mississippi state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, much earlier than the 24-week threshold generally established by the pivotal abortion rights case Roe v. Wade in 1973.

Environmental DNA – how a tool used to detect endangered wildlife ended up helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic — David Duffy and Jessica Alice Farrell

Imagine discovering an animal species you thought had gone extinct was still living – without laying eyes on it. Such was the case with the Brazilian frog species Megaelosia bocainensis.

Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right? — Chris Robinson

One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly referred to as COVID-19 long-haulers, suffered from neurologic or psychiatric disability six months after infection, a recent landmark study of more than 200,000 post-COVID-19 patients showed.

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