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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

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Haiti’s gangs help oust political leader

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How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.

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Here's why SAT and ACT exams are back on more students' college paths

A growing number of elite colleges and universities have changed their policies on standardized tests, which became an optional application step in 2020 as a Covid pandemic adjustment. Now Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute of Techn...

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Voting in Russia holds no surprises

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Would you eat this lab-grown 'beef rice'?


South Korean researchers have succeeded in growing beef cells in rice grains in what they say is a major step towards achieving a sustainable, affordable and environmentally friendly source of protein that could replace farming cattle for meat Profes...

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This week's word in the news: LANGUISH

DEFINITION:

Existing in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
President Biden’s aid request has languished for as long as Johnson has been speaker.
The Los Angeles Times -- 03/18/2024

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