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  Opinion: 30 years after ‘My So-Called Life,’ its creator reflects on choice

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  CNN — Who were we before our culture was defined by the internet? For many of us, that question is impossible to answer (you can pry our phones out of our cold dead fingers, thanks). And for others, the culture part was different pre-internet, perhaps better or more indelible, In The Before. As an …

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  2 days ago

  Opinion: This should be America’s next step to stay ahead of ruthless cybercriminals

  CNN - Opinion by Frank Cilluffo and Joshua Whitman

  CNN — The threat cybercrime poses to nations, businesses and individuals has reached a critical juncture — and it’s time to recognize that cybercriminals are operating freely in countries that provide them shelter, causing economic harm and undermining global security. The United States International …

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  4 days ago

  Opinion: I’m a vaccine scientist. The devastating impacts of vaccine hesitancy have touched my life too

  CNN - Opinion by Mohamed Bassyouni

  CNN — As a parent and a researcher focusing on vaccines, I always made sure, along with my wife, that our children received all the shots our doctor recommended. But when my eldest son was a young child, there was no vaccine for rotavirus. He contracted a severe rotavirus infection, developed …

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  5 days ago

  Opinion: Gaza needs trained doctors. Israel is blocking Palestinian physicians like me

  CNN - Opinion by Ali H. Elaydi

  CNN — Ten months into the war in Gaza, there is just about nothing that the people struggling to survive there don’t need: water, food, shelter, security — Gazans are literally blockaded from receiving the essential things of life. They also desperately need skilled physicians like me. I’m an …

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  6 days ago

  Opinion: Why there is no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster

  CNN - Opinion by Anita van Breda

  CNN — Thirty seconds. Less than 30 seconds was all it took for an earthquake to tear through Haiti in 2010, claiming more than 200,000 lives and leaving 1.5 million people homeless. In the years of rebuilding required after that half-minute of horror, environmental experts like me joined the effort …

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  Opinion: I’m a former Olympic swimmer who almost drowned as a child. It’s a preventable danger

  CNN - Opinion by Cullen Jones

  CNN — After nearly drowning at the age of five, I could never have dreamt that one day I would swim competitively, let alone twice at the Olympics — or that I would become the first Black swimmer to hold a world record. The incident happened, as these occurrences often do, in a setting where kids are …