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Culture

Qantas Unveils First Pics of Aircraft That Will Fly Nonstop From Sydney to New York

Qantas released the first images of its aircraft designed to take on the world's longest commercial flights, the latest update in the airline's quest to make nonstop, ultra-long-haul journeys a reality.
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Called "Project Sunrise" — named in honor of the World War II "Double Sunrise" flights that took so long they could encounter two separate dawns — the plane is designed to connect Sydney directly to London and New York (that means up to 22 hours in the sky). No connecting flights equals fewer hours of traveling overall and less stress of dealing with layovers and hurrying between boarding gates.
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"This is an aircraft that will change what's possible when it comes to international point-to-point air travel," Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson said in an advance copy of a speech to shareholders, per The Guardian. "Our teams are incredibly excited for the arrival of the first aircraft late next year, a landmark moment for international aviation."
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In addition to enhanced fuel capacity and other systems to support nearly daylong flights, the plane will also have fewer seats to provide more space and a "Wellbeing Zone" so passengers can stretch their legs between movie marathons — explore the interior.

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Health

New Clinical Trial Sparks Hope for Young Patients Battling Cancer

In the United States, the five-year survival rate for children with cancer is 85%. But for kids with certain solid tumors and sarcomas, that number can drop to under 30% — something Dr. Catherine Bollard is trying to help improve.
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"There just hasn't been the same amount of effort and financial support around really understanding the biology of pediatric cancers," Bollard told The Washington Post, comparing pediatric and adult disease. "We have not gone fast enough as a field."
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​Now, she's leading a groundbreaking clinical trial at Children's National Hospital involving 12 children with solid tumors and sarcomas that have resisted standard chemotherapy and radiation. The trial uses the patients' own T cells to simultaneously attack the tumor proteins PRAME and B7-H3, which help cancers grow and evade the immune system, respectively.
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The hope is that targeting both proteins could make it harder for the tumors to adapt and survive, and ultimately increase the chances that more patients will become long-term survivors. Learn more about the trial — part of a $470 million initiative aimed at identifying and addressing "the toughest challenges in cancer research."

Humanity

Meet the Former TSA Officer Supporting Unpaid Airport Workers Amid Shutdown

As we wait for word on when the government will reopen (get updates here), a former TSA officer is stepping into high gear to take care of airport staff who have not been paid in over a month due to the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
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"They're feeling unseen. They're feeling unheard," Caleb Harmon-Marshall, who now runs a travel newsletter, told CBS affiliate WANF. He has raised more than $4,600 dollars to buy gas cards so Atlanta TSA workers can get to their shifts. He also organized a free car wash event for airport workers in partnership with a local business.
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"Makes me feel better that my car looks good," said James Drake, an officer who attended the event. "We're all trying to stick together. We're a family. We help each other out."
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Harmon-Marshall is just one of many across the country who have been helping people affected by the shutdown — there's also the teacher packing extra lunches for kids whose families lost their SNAP benefits, the restaurants and organizations serving furloughed federal workers, and countless more.

In Other News

1. Hormone therapy for menopause will no longer have a black box label, a move the FDA hopes will expand use (read more)
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2. Boston and Cambridge's decades-old energy systems are undergoing low-carbon transformations (read more)
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3. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted a new batch of superstars — see some of this year's honorees (read more)​
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4. 50 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck, community members gathered to honor the lives lost (read more)
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5. Sun's out, seals out! A group of harbor seals was spotted soaking up the sunshine on a Long Island sandbar (read more)

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Inspiring Story

Setting things right

Remember this name: David Drake was a potter and poet who created a massive collection of stoneware vessels in the mid-1800s, but he wasn't allowed to own any of his work because he was enslaved. Now, a Boston museum is carrying out a historic act of justice by returning two of his rare ceramic pots to his descendants. "Our great-great-great-grandfather never got to own one single piece of his own pottery or to pass them on to his children and grandchildren," Pauline Baker, one of the descendants, said in a statement. "Today the museum does all it can to right that wrong."

Photo of the Day

Like walking inside a Van Gogh painting! These stunning sunflower sculptures were in full bloom at the 20th edition of the GLOW festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands — a free annual event that's all about bringing people together while "giving light art new meaning as a bearer of stories, ideas, and human connection." Watch a video of visitors enjoying the festival.​

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Odds & Ends

⚾ Baseballs from the '25 World Series could fetch a pretty penny
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Quote of the Day

"May freedom be seen, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to please to do what is right."

– PETER MARSHALL