Israeli airstrike in Rafah; uncooked milk and fowl flu : NPR

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An Israeli airstrike in Rafah killed 35 individuals and injured dozens of others, in keeping with Gaza’s Well being Ministry. The Israeli authorities had designated the world as a protected and humanitarian zone for Palestinians sheltering from struggle. Israel says it was focusing on a Hamas set up and killed two senior Hamas officers. The strike hit tents and prompted a fireplace in an encampment.

• 🎧 NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi tells Up First that earlier than this month, Rafah had been a “last refuge” for Palestinians. NPR producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, describes “total destruction” on the scene. Emergency physician James Smith tells NPR the strike was the worst he is seen within the weeks he is been working in Rafah. Greater than 1 million Palestinians have been sheltering in Rafah. The U.N. says greater than 800,000 have fled since Israel expanded its army operation there.

At the moment, People observe Memorial Day and honor members of the army who died whereas serving their nation. Half a century in the past, the households of Vietnam Conflict troops lacking in motion went to nice lengths to persuade the federal authorities to search out the stays of their family members and return them. Now, technological advances have virtually completely modified whose stays are being introduced house — and who they’re being introduced house to.

• 🎧 Jay Value of NPR community station WUNC says the extraordinary lengths the U.S. authorities goes by way of to repatriate these stays are in contrast to some other nation. The Protection Division goals to make 200 identifications a yr. Because the variety of stays from the Vietnam Conflict dwindles, many circumstances now come from WWII and the Korean Conflict. Discovering subsequent of kin for these army members will be troublesome, however anthropologist Sarah Wagner of George Washington College says it is necessary work. “Ultimately, this is about belonging,” she says. “It is about… the necessity of belonging and the need to take care of its military — past, present, and future.”

As fowl flu continues to contaminate herds of dairy cows, uncooked milk farmers are getting contemporary scrutiny. The extremely pathogenic pressure of flu that is lethal to birds has unfold to not less than 58 herds in 9 states and not less than two individuals. USDA exams discovered samples of the virus in unpasteurized milk. This milk is offered and simply accessible in lots of elements of the nation regardless of federal authorities advising individuals to not drink it. Earlier this month, NPR reporters bought uncooked milk in Texas and submitted it for testing. However when the USDA-approved lab licensed to check the milk for the H5N1 fowl flu virus known as the farms to hunt their permission to look at the milk, the farms stated no.

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Within the face of human-caused local weather change, paperbacks and e-readers include completely different professionals and cons relating to assessing which is essentially the most sustainable studying format.

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Digital studying is on the rise — particularly audiobooks, in keeping with the Affiliation of American Publishers. An e-reader or an audiobook will be extra handy than carrying round a paperback. However which is extra environmentally pleasant? It is dependent upon how voracious of a reader you’re. 📚 Print e-book publishing is the world’s third-largest industrial greenhouse fuel emitter. Within the U.S., 32 million timber are lower down annually to make books.

• 📚 Some publishers are switching to on-demand printing and utilizing extra eco-friendly fonts to develop into extra sustainable.
• 📚 Although digital gadgets require no paper, their circumstances are made with fossil fuel-derived plastics and the minerals of their batteries require resource-heavy mining.
• 📚 It’s a must to learn the equal of about 36 small paperback books earlier than you break even on the carbon footprint of an e-reader.

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Carol Leone, chair of piano research at Southern Methodist College’s Meadows College of the Arts, performs there in 2016 on a Steinway grand piano rebuilt with a smaller keyboard by DS Commonplace.

Courtesy Hannah Reimann.

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For individuals with smaller fingers, taking part in troublesome piano items like Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto will be actually unreachable. Actually, Josef Hofmann — a buddy of the Russian composer to whom the concerto was devoted — refused to carry out the piece publicly due to his smaller handspan. He demanded that the Steinway piano firm make him a narrower piano. At the moment, most piano corporations nonetheless refuse to fabricate stretto (slender) keyboards. Pianist Hannah Reimann desires to vary this. Her Worldwide Stretto Piano Pageant runs by way of June 4.

• 🎧 Take heed to among the music she performs on the stretto piano — which sounds the identical as music performed on an everyday piano! And listen to Reimann clarify how stretto pianos may help cut back accidents, assist youngsters study the instrument sooner and degree the taking part in subject between women and men in piano competitions.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

Bark Air formally launched this week, finishing its first flight from New York to Los Angeles on Thursday. It additionally flies to London, and goals so as to add extra routes within the coming months.

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1. Canine will quickly be capable of get first-class airplane therapy. BARK Air describes itself as “the world’s first air travel experience designed specifically for dogs first, and their human companions second.”
2. Who has time to observe a 4-hour YouTube video? Thousands and thousands of individuals (together with me), it seems. Pop Tradition Completely satisfied Hour’s Glen Weldon ponders why YouTuber Jenny Nicholson’s assessment/eulogy for the shuttered Disney Star Wars lodge was so profitable and the way well-made work attracts an viewers, even when it is a time dedication.
3. The Birmingham-Southern Faculty Panthers have superior to the Division III Faculty World Sequence. Their achievement is bittersweet, as the college introduced in March it might shut on account of monetary difficulties.

This article was edited by Treye Inexperienced.