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   'Huge step for British car manufacturing': Luxury car brand Jaguar to go all   
   electric by 2025   
   ABC News, 15 Feb 2021 20:32Z   
   Struggling luxury car brand Jaguar plans to phase out internal combustion   
   engines -- a move that has been welcomed by the British automotive industry   
   and its Prime Minister.   
      
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   Soaring crime is killing NYC's subway system   
   New York Post, 15 Feb 2021 01:36Z   
   Two more straphangers met their gruesome end on Gotham's subways over the   
   weekend, bringing the transit-murder total in just over a year to eight.   
   Before ...   
      
   The Tesla Semi's 500 kWh battery and Convoy Mode are grossly underestimated   
   Teslarati, 15 Feb 2021 02:34Z   
   The Tesla Semi may be delayed for quite some time now, but it appears that   
   Elon Musk's all-electric Class 8 truck will be well worth the wait. And as   
   the ...   
      
   Travellers at Holiday Inn 'hot hotel' to be transferred after water damage   
   ABC News, 15 Feb 2021 20:54Z   
   Residents at the Holiday Inn on Flinders Lane, a quarantine hotel   
   specifically for COVID-positive patients, will be transferred to another   
   facility after water damage over the weekend.   
      
   High-altitude birds evolved thicker 'jackets'   
   BBC News, 15 Feb 2021 14:43Z   
   Himalayan songbirds in colder, more elevated environments have feathers with   
   more fluffy down.   
      
   Why do we breathe so loudly when we sleep?   
   Livescience.com, 15 Feb 2021 12:43Z   
   During the most peaceful sleep, some people snore obnoxiously loud, ruining   
   the chances of slumber for anyone sharing their bedroom. But even those who ...   
      
   Ancient Rome Has an Urgent Warning for Us   
   The New York Times/Opinion, 15 Feb 2021 10:39Z   
   The era of the Antonine Plague offers a reminder of what a powerful force   
   nature has been throughout human history.   
      
   Life found feet beneath 3,000 feet Antarctica ice sheet   
   Business Insider, 15 Feb 2021 12:38Z   
   Scientist have found life under 3,000 feet under of ice in Antarctica,   
   challenging their assumption that nothing could live in such conditions. The   
   previous theory ...   
      
     New video captures discovery of spongy animals deep under Antarctic ice   
     Livescience.com, 15 Feb 2021 11:41Z   
     Scientists discovered a a rock covered with unknown animals under an   
     Antarctic ice shelf.   
      
     Scientists Accidentally Discover Strange Creatures Under a Half Mile of Ice   
     WIRED, 15 Feb 2021 05:39Z   
     Bivouacked in the middle of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf-a five-hour flight   
     from the nearest Antarctic station-nothing comes easy. Even though it was   
   the ...   
      
   Sea level data confirms climate modeling projections were right   
   Phys.org, 15 Feb 2021 14:38Z   
   Projections of rising sea levels this century are on the money when tested   
   against satellite and tide-gauge observations, scientists find.   
      
   WTO Finally Appoints Its First Woman and First African Leader   
   The Daily Beast, 15 Feb 2021 16:37Z   
   Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed the first woman and the first African   
   to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General. The Ni   
   erian-American ...   
      
   How Victoria's outbreak swelled from 3 cases in quarantine to a cluster   
   of 17   
   ABC News, 15 Feb 2021 06:30Z   
   Victorian contact tracers close off some "branches of investigation" from   
   early cases, but are still trying to get ahead of those stemming from a   
   private function in Melbourne's north.   
      
     Fifty people in Queensland yet to be traced after transiting Melbourne   
     Airport exposure zone   
     ABC News, 15 Feb 2021 03:32Z   
     Queensland Health says 50 people who passed through Melbourne Airport's   
     declared coronavirus exposure zone are yet to be contacted, as the Gold   
     Coast misses out on hosting a world surfing tour because authorities will   
     not pick up the quarantine tab for competitors.   
      
     PPE taskforce member 'flabbergasted' stricter standards weren't applied in   
     Victorian hotel quarantine   
     ABC News, 15 Feb 2021 05:31Z   
     Victoria's beleaguered hotel quarantine program was not following the same   
     infection control standards drawn up by a PPE taskforce, which were being   
     applied to the rest of the state's health system.   
      
   Israel study on Pfizer vaccine shows 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 cases   
   Yahoo News, 14 Feb 2021 21:42Z   
   A recent study by Israel's largest healthcare provider found that after both   
   doses of the Pfizer vaccine, people are 94% less likely to have symptomatic   
   COVID-19 ...   
      
   [Rolling Outage:]   
   TX power grid straining under cold, rolling outages or blackouts possible   
   as soon as tonight: ERCOT   
   KTRK-TV, 14 Feb 2021 16:40Z   
   The manager of TX' electric grid is bracing for record electricity usage   
   while managing unusually high power-generation problems that could lead to   
   rolling ...   
      
   Major Australian media company strikes Google news pay deal   
   The Associated Press, 15 Feb 2021 03:39Z   
   Canberra, Australia. Seven West Media has become the largest Australian news   
   media business to strike a deal with Google to pay for journalism in a ...   
      
   Guinea declares first Ebola outbreak since 2016, after confirming 7 new   
   cases linked to a funeral   
   Business Insider, 14 Feb 2021 21:38Z   
   Guinea has declared an Ebola outbreak for the first time since 2016, when a   
   two-year outbreak in West Africa finally ended after killing more   
   than 11,000 people.   
      
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