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Remembering Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Connection Cafe

As a collegiate baseball player in Wichita, KS, I volunteered at a local event and became hooked. I remember her laughing at my opening joke about planning and the smile, which eased my nerves. For me it is one of those life moments where I will remember where I was and what I was doing when I “heard” the news.

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Why America is falling in love with romance bookstores

Fast Company Tech

Rachel Kanter [Photo: Reagan Byrne/Lovestruck] The Ripped Bodice in Ventura, California, was the first romance bookstore to open in the United States back in 2016. It was so successful that it went on to open another location in Brooklyn, and has paved the way for dozens more to open. Even now, I can’t keep books in stock.

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El Paso, Texas, just broke ground on the first U.S. facility to turn wastewater directly into drinking water

Fast Company Tech

Texas, Western States Move Ahead on Direct Potable Reuse The first direct potable reuse plant in the world opened in 1968 in Namibia, southern Africas driest country. Wichita Falls, Texas, also operated a temporary direct potable reuse facility from 2014 to 2015. I am just a little worried about how far that can go, he said.

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Smithsonian caught in the crosshairs of Trump’s history wars

Fast Company Tech

I fondly remember trips to the Fellow-Reeves Museum in Wichita, Kansas, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Historical scholarship requires an openness to debate and a willingness to embrace new findings and perspectives.

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