June 16 Reads

"She died doing what she loved."

Never mind this young girl was just 16 years old.

Risk-taking idiocy isn't just confined to males:


Douady was climbing with a group of friends near Grenoble when she fell 500 feet while crossing an exposed path.

The 16-year-old was already in the French climbing team and was seen as a potential future Olympian in a sport which was due to feature in the Games for the first time in the rescheduled Tokyo showpiece.

The French climbing federation hailed her as a 'very promising' climber with 'the future before her' while her club paid tribute to a 'beautiful person' and a 'young woman full of energy, passion, talents'.
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Here we go again with COVID-19.

China is rounding up Beijing residents and forcing them into quarantine as the capital goes back into lockdown amid an 'extremely severe' coronavirus outbreak, an activist claims.

Footage shows officials in hazmat suits barking orders through a megaphone while people line up in queues and pack into buses amid fears that a second wave of virus cases is about to hit the country.

Activist Jennifer Zeng, who posted the footage, claims that seven hotels were requisitioned as quarantine sites with people rounded up in an all-day operation after an outbreak linked to the Xinfadi wholesale market.
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Why the USSC Harris decision is a bad one:

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