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05 Mar

Vermont’s Jay Peak Emerges From a Cloud of Financial Scandal

Related media - Connected media Settling into the first tram of the morning at Vermont’s Jay Peak resort last month, I looked down to see a young boy wearing a neon helmet pressed against the window, his father next to him, as excited as I was to ski the foot of fresh snow. The boy told me that he was 10 years old. I asked him why he liked coming to Jay Peak. “Because of the Jay Cloud,” he said matter-of-factly, as if it were obvious. “It has the best snow.” As if on cue, the world outside the aerial…

05 Mar

A Fading Weapon in the HIV Fight: Condoms

Michele MoralesHealth

Associated media - Related media Gay and bisexual men are using condoms less than ever, and the decline has been particularly steep among those who are young or Hispanic, according to a new study. The worrisome trend points to an urgent need for better prevention strategies as the nation struggles to beat the H.I.V. epidemic, researchers said. Over the past decade, prevention medication known as PrEP has helped fuel a moderate drop in H.I.V. rates. And yet, despite persistent public health campaigns promoting the drugs, they have not been adopted in substantial numbers by Black and Hispanic men who are…

05 Mar

Tablillas de PVC en Panamá: la mejor opción para tu cielo raso con HOPSA

Michele MoralesSocial Responsibility

Últimamente, las tablillas de PVC en Panamá han ido adquiriendo mayor popularidad en la colocación de cielo raso. Este compuesto ofrece numerosas ventajas tanto en términos de rendimiento como en el aspecto visual de las áreas.La sencillez en su colocación, su resistencia a la humedad y a las condiciones climáticas adversas, convierten a las tablillas de PVC en una opción práctica y duradera, que además presentan diseños contemporáneos, atractivos y sofisticados, ideales para cualquier entorno. Es por ello que en HOPSA se dispone de una amplia gama de texturas y tonalidades para conseguir el efecto deseado en diversos tipos de…

05 Mar

Bosnia Was Once Emptied by War and Now Faces Peacetime Emigration

Michele MoralesSocial Responsibility

Connected media - Linked media “It is evident that people are leaving all parts of the country,” said Emir Kremic, the director general of Bosnia’s state statistics agency. But how many have gone, he said, is not known with any precision, in a large part because it is not clear how many people remain. “We just don’t know how many people there are living here,” he said. For that, he added, “We need a new census.” That, however, is not something ethnonationalist politicians, fearful of the results, want. Bosnia’s three main ethnic groups — Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Christian Serbs and…

04 Mar

Eli Manning’s popular ‘Chad Powers’ skit to be made into Hulu comedy series starring Glen Powell

Michele MoralesSocial Responsibility

Connected media - Linked media The name’s Powers. Chad Powers. And he’s coming (back) to a screen near you. Hulu ordered Eli Manning’s character “Chad Powers” to be made into its own comedy series, according to a company press release. Manning created and transformed into Powers for an episode of his docuseries “Eli’s Places” after Manning’s curiosity about the college football walk-on process led him to try out at Penn State under the pseudonym and disguise. With help from a special effects artist and Matthew McConaughey-like persona, Manning successfully tried out to be a Nittany Lion. He almost made it…