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Joan Dye Gussow, nutritionist and educator who was often called the matriarch of the food movement "EAT at the local level, thinks globally, died on Friday in his home in Piermont, New York, in the County of Rockland. He was 96 years old.His death, by congestive heart failure, was announced by Pamela A. Koch, associate professor of nutritional education at Teacher College, University of Columbia, where Mrs. Gussow, a professor emeritus, had taught for over half a century.Mrs. Gussow was one of the first in her field to emphasize the connections between agricultural practices and consumer health. His book "The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology" (1978) influenced the thoughts of writers Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver and others."Nutrition is designed as the science of what happe...

Three days of clashes between fighters affiliated to the new leaders of Syria and those faithful to the external dictator Bashar al-Assad left deaths of dozens of civilians, according to two war monitoring groups, who reported on Saturday that many of them had been killed by the government forces.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has monitored the Syrian conflict since 2011, declared on Sunday at the beginning that over 1,000 people had been killed in the coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia. That figure included about 700 civilians, most of the government forces. The information cannot be verified independently.Another monitoring group, the Syrian network for human rights, previously reported that the government's security forces had killed around 125 civilians. He said th...

At the beginning of 2017, American intelligence agencies issued an unequivocal judgment on why President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had ordered a temptular effort to sabotage the recent American presidential elections.Putin wanted to paralyze the faith that the Americans have in their own elections, found and undermines a "liberal world order" led by the United States that the Russians see as a threat to their security. As a way to achieve this, the evaluation has found, Russia has worked to help Donald J. Trump win the elections.Eight years later, Trump sat in the oval office for a stormy meeting with the president Voldymyr Zelensky from Ukraine and has once again made his judgment at that time. There was no Russian sabotage, only a "false witch hunt" of which both he and Mr. Putin were ...

For Spacex, 2025 should have been the best year.Elon Musk, the founder of private space society, is one of the most influential people in the oval office and President Trump has approved his vision of sending humans to Mars.But so far it hasn't been a great year for Rocket Company. The vehicle that is at the center of Mars's goal, the gigantic spacex starship rocket, was launched twice this year and twice jumped into the air.The last explosion occurred on Thursday during the eighth space of spaceship, less than two months after the seventh test flight separated in space. Once again, a shower of debris rained, creating a new headache for travelers in Florida and the Caribbean who were not used to seeing "space debris" as a reason for flight delays. Neither accidents wounded anyone.The explo...

The centers for the control and prevention of diseases are planning to conduct a large -scale study to review if there is a connection between vaccines and autism, federal officials said on Friday.Dozens of scientific studies have not been able to find evidence of a connection. But the CDC now falls within the secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long expressed skepticism on vaccine security and has promised to revisit data.“As President Trump said in his joint discourse to the congress, the autism rate in American children has risen to the stars. The CDC will leave nothing to intend to understand what exactly is going on, "said Andrew Nixon, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, in a declaration on Friday. Nixon did not offer details o...

President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government trying to negotiate an agreement to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.He said the letter was sent on Wednesday and addressed to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader. The White House did not immediately respond to a request to provide the letter or further describe its content. The Iran mission to the United Nations declared on Friday that Iran had not received this letter to date.In an interview that broadcast on Friday on Fox Business, Trump said: "There are two ways in which Iran can be managed: militarily or have an agreement. I would prefer to make an agreement, because I'm not trying to hurt Iran. They are fantastic people. "The move is a sharp pin for Mr. Trump, who in 2018 withdrew the United ...

Three Bulgarians were judged guilty of espionage for Russia in Great Britain and throughout continental Europe as part of one of the largest Russian espionage rings ever discovered by the British police.During a period of three years, the group, led by a Bulgarian IT specialist, Orlin Roussev, 47 years old, led six operations for journalists and critics of the Russian government, said the ministries, adding that they also conducted surveillance in a US military site in Germany, where they believed that Ukrainian soldiers had been trained."This case is a clear example of the growing quantity of cases of state threats with which we are dealing in the United Kingdom, in particular linked to Russia," said Dominic Murphy, head of the command of the metropolitan police counter. "It also underlin...

Listen and follow "Hard Fork"Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | IheartradioThis week, Google has introduced a new way of looking for, which could mean that Googing as we know that it is leaving. It is called the AI ​​mode and it is essentially the company's response to the growing number of people who turn to chat robots to the search on Google.Let's move through the appearance of this new product, which can use it and what could mean for the future of the Internet. So, let's talk to the Crypto journalist of the New York Times David Yaffa-Bellany of the recent announcement of President Trump on a national cryptocurrency reserve and because the news has shocked some of the greatest supporters of cryptocurrency. Finally, we react to the vocal mail from the listeners who describe the tools ...

The Ebola epidemic in Uganda has worsened significantly and the country's ability to contain the diffusion was seriously weakened by the freezing of the Trump administration on foreign assistance, they said American officials this week.The officials, who represent a variety of health and safety agencies, carried out the evaluation during a meeting with the staff of the United States Embassy in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, Wednesday. An audio recording of the session was obtained by the New York Times.There were two other dead, the mother and newborn brother of a 4 -year -old boy who died last week, said an American official. The mother and brother died before the 4 -year -old boy, but were not identified as probable cases of Ebola until they were buried through the late contact track.Eigh...

The officials of the State State Department have developed plans to close a dozen consulates abroad by this summer and are taking into consideration the idea of ​​closing many more missions, in what could be a serious blow for the efforts of the United States government to build partnerships and collect intelligence, say American officials.The Department also plans to fire many local citizens who work for its hundreds of missions. Those workers constitute two thirds of the agency's workforce and in many countries form the basis of the knowledge of their US diplomats environments.The narrowing is part of both the widest cutting of the federal government of President Trump and its foreign policy "America First", in which the United States end or reduce the important ways to exercise global i...