Month: May 2024

A near-death experience, pregnancy loss has a mother educating women about preeclampsia

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SAN ANTONIO – Alexea Washington’s beautiful, healthy daughter Malia Rose is 3 months old. “She’s literally the light of our lives, and she came into our lives at such a dark place for me,” Washington said. It was her first pregnancy that cast that dark shadow. It started in 2022, around her third trimester when … Read more

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

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LONDON – German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence. Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country … Read more

Why does one volleyball player wear a different color jersey at the Olympics?

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The libero was introduced in volleyball in 1996. WASHINGTON — Volleyball is one of the most popular sports at the Summer Games and is played in two disciplines, beach volleyball and volleyball.  While the basic rules between the two are the same, there are some key differences. Volleyball, which made its Olympic debut in 1964, has … Read more