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Thu, February 2, 2023 | 07:16

Esports offers options

A new extra-curricular activity is offering students another option to further their careers.The News-Capital recently interviewed McAlester High School STEM teacher and esports coach Amy Shaw about how the young program offers students a fun activity with options for future career paths.

2023-02-01 16:34

Opioids don't do enough for chronic pain sufferers

Chronic pain affects 1 in 6 people in the United States and around the world, and is the most common cause of disability. Yet medicine's desperate attempts to treat chronic pain sparked the opioid epidemic. And while many promising non-opioid therapies exist, some of them newly developed, patients face innumerable barriers in accessing them.

2023-01-31 16:30

Older mass shooters are rare. Here's how they differ from young assailants

The killing of 18 people in California just two days apart - 11 in Monterey Park and seven in Half Moon Bay - are the latest horrors in America's long history of gun violence. But there is a factor in these mass shootings, and with the suspects, that stands out.

2023-01-30 16:30

Prosecuting genocide is not 'optional' for any nation

Recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy contended that atrocities committed by Russian troops against unarmed Ukrainian citizens constituted war crimes. “This is real genocide,” Zelenskyy said while surveying the death toll in the town of Bucha.

2023-01-29 16:40

Putin must be stopped from having opposition leader Alexei Navalny killed in prison.

Putin must be stopped from having opposition leader Alexei Navalny killed in prison.

Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.

2023-01-26 16:20

Is science in need of a language update?

Our institutions of higher education are not exactly stepping up during this moment of generational change. At a minimum these institutions are not keeping up and, at worst, they are failing us altogether.

2023-01-26 16:10

Wildlife is in a housing crisis - and needs our help

A recent New York Times headline provides what might be the best summation of the biodiversity crisis: “Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live.” The world has lost half of its natural ecosystems, and wildlife populations have shrunk by an average of 68 percent since 1970. Why? As the Times article neatly puts it, “Humans are taking over too much of the planet, erasing what...

2023-01-26 16:00

The aftermath of shootings often shows us how politically insane our discourse has become

A few minutes into following my colleagues' coverage of a mass shooting that left 10 dead and 10 wounded during a Lunar New Year dance party, I started to wonder if years of being a journalist had compromised my humanity.

2023-01-25 16:27

But what if Damar Hamlin had died?

Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, almost died on Jan. 2. His heart stopped after a blow to his chest during a "Monday Night Football" game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Thanks to prompt attention by team trainers and paramedics, Hamlin survived, and America enjoyed a collective sigh of relief last week when he was released from the hospital.

2023-01-24 16:30

Obesity drugs for kids? Why new guidelines make sense

A leading organization of pediatricians is recommending that teens with obesity be offered weight-loss medication as part of a comprehensive treatment plan. But unless barriers to access fall, it won't move the needle on the U.S. childhood obesity epidemic - something that affects more than 1 in 5 kids in the country.

2023-01-19 16:50

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Top 10 Stories

1	Garbage collector mistakes sex doll for corpse

2	Free subway rides for elderly emerge as headache for Seoul mayor

3	Retailers return to Myeong-dong as more foreign tourists visit

4	Korea seeks measures to better protect foreign workers

5	4 South Korean activists arrested for executing orders from Pyongyang

6	President pledges support for Korean chipmakers to overcome crisis

7	Income gap widening among workers

8	Korea's presidential couple celebrates recovery of Cambodian boy who received heart surgery

9	Space industry takes off in South Jeolla Province

10	Saipanese people pin hopes on tourism boom again

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