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  Penelope Boyer

  

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  Kyrgyzstan's Codify and Mad Devs Are Female-Led Tech Startups

  Bloomberg - By Ashlee Vance

  Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked nation in Central Asia, has few natural resources on which to draw. Its gross domestic product is near $11 billion for a …

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  Penelope Boyer

  

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  Debora K. Reiser, Long Island modern architect, educator, and feminist, dies at 96

  archpaper.com - Daniel Roche

  Architect, educator, and pioneering feminist Debora K. Reiser died on September 19 at the age of 96. The news of Reiser’s passing was shared via …

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  Penelope Boyer

  

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  Megan Rapinoe's legacy with US team is bigger than soccer

  Associated Press - ANNE M. PETERSON

  Whether she was advocating for equal pay and racial justice or just scoring a rare goal off a corner kick, Megan Rapinoe was always unabashedly authentic during her soccer career. As she prepares to step away, the 38-year old Rapinoe is showing a more vulnerable side, too. Rapinoe sobbed following …

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  Penelope Boyer

  

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  Zadie Smith Drops In; Drew Barrymore Is Eased Out

  The New York Times

  Zadie Smith’s new novel, “The Fraud,” is set in 19th-century England, and introduces a teeming cast of characters at the periphery of a trial in which the central figure claimed to be a long-lost nobleman entitled to a fortune. Smith drew many of the book’s details from the historical record — the …

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  Penelope Boyer

  

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  An Unusual Ancient Burial of a Teenage Girl Offers Insight Into the Fate of Those Considered To Be ‘Outsiders’ in Medieval England

  artnet.com - Jo Lawson-Tancred

  Analysis of the woman's bones revealed that she would have lived a very tough life as a person of low social status. Archaeologists working near …

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  Penelope Boyer

  

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  Who’s to Blame for the Climate Crisis? Journalist Amy Westervelt Is on the Case

  ecowatch.com - Olivia Rosane

  Who is to blame for the climate crisis? For some, the answer to this question is a lament over the inherent greed of human nature. For award-winning …