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Laoag bans use of plastic bag, Styro
The waste issue is a global problem as shown here in a photo of a dump site that can be found everywhere in the world. (File photo)By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)Laoag City—In a concerted...
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PGIN leads launch of Padsan River restoration
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)Laoag City—In a move to help avoid future wide-scale flooding in the province and with the effect of typhoon Ineng in 2019 still fresh on everyone’s minds, the...
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Investing in people over bubbles that burst
By Noralyn DudtIn one of the first recorded Bitcoin transactions in 2010, a hungry computer geek in Florida spent 10,000 of the cryptocurrency on a couple of takeaway pizzas. By late 2017, the cost of...
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Coronavirus Variants and Boosters
By Noralyn DudtAbout three weeks ago on Dec. 15th, 2022, I lost my bragging rights on board the Viking Jupiter along the coast of Puerto Montt in Chile. That was my 15thday on the cruise and I tested...
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Leaders turn the world around
By Noralyn DudtA leader comes and unknowingly may turn the world around—forward, leftward, rightward or backward and even upside down—depending on what the leader does and how he does it. Wherever we...
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After 5 years: New LC Sports Complex reopens
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)Laoag City—In time for the Laoag City Pamulinawen Festival 2023, the city government here has reopened the operation of the Laoag City Sports Complex, otherwise...
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Teaching with technology: Optional or mandatory
By Liwliwa B. SuguitanTechnology has the potential to significantly change how people learn. It may strengthen and deepen connections between teachers and students, help us reimagine how we learn and...
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The young maiden who turned the world around
By Noralyn Dudt"My soulmagnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For He has looked with favor on His lowly servant."Around 2,024 years ago in the little town of Nazareth, a young...
View ArticleKWF Onlayn Dap-áyan, magsisimula na ngayong Pebrero 2023 tampok ang mga...
Magsisimula na sa Pebrero 24, 2023 ang “Onlayn Dap-áyan” sa mga “Babasahín sa Saliksik at Kulturang Pilipino” ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) tampok ang mga salawikain.Ang proyektong ito ay serye...
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The world was ready to be turned upside-down
By Noralyn DudtA small pocket of the vast Roman Empire in the little town of Nazareth is a place where no one would have ever expected someone to turn the world upside-down. It was an undistinguished,...
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The Twelve and their TEACHER
By Noralyn DudtA story full of oddities it certainly is. From the world's point of view, twelve men from an odd place with odd personalities could not have been the main actors over 2,000 years ago...
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PGIN’s MMSU scholar tops physician licensure exam
Laoag City—Aira Cassandra S. Castro, a scholar of the provincial government of Ilocos Norte's (PGIN) Doctor of Medicine Scholarship Program, topped the recent March 2023 Physician Licensure Examination...
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The Damascus Road Experience, a 180 degree-turn
In the mountains of Greece where the Greek gods and goddesses lived.By Noralyn O. DudtWHO WAS PAUL? Churches, hospitals, schools and even towns and cities bear his name: St. Paul's Cathedral, St....
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Washington DC (First of a series)
By Noralyn DudtTHE MALL in Washington DC is not a shopping place. It's America's public square. It's a place where massive demonstrations occur and requires an extraordinary amount of planning and...
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Museums and Art Galleries of The Smithsonian Institution/Monuments and...
By Noralyn DudtWASHINGTON DC, the U.S. capital abounds in monuments, memorials, museums, and galleries. When the city was first designed in 1790, the planner whom George Washington commissioned,...
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Washington, DC: Where the whole world is
(Conclusion)By Noralyn DudtBACK in 1790 when Pierre L'Enfant was at work designing what was to become the nation's capital with wide boulevards and common squares, he probably never envisioned the...
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Cutting-edge technology that avoids the ‘cut’
By Noralyn O. DudtAbout 18 years ago, I went through a medical procedure known as endoscopy. It's a procedure that enables a gastroenterologist to look into the inside of the stomach without making an...
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Gridlock and a dead-end street
By Noralyn DudtMerriam-Webster defines gridlock as a traffic jam in which a grid of intersecting streets is so completely congested that no vehicular movement is possible. The grid is locked... no one...
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Grand Jury vs. Trial Jury
By Noralyn DudtA SUMMONS from Montgomery County Circuit Court to serve in the Grand Jury in 2018 surely came as a surprise. It has been 30 years since I requested the Montgomery County Court to remove...
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Privatizations may not always be the solution
By Noralyn O. DudtGermany is all precision and punctuality, that is... until you board a Deutsche Bahn train. Of all the German institutions, the Deutsche Bahn may well win first prize in tearing...
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