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Wingo was born in Arkon, Ohio, and grew up in Northwest Washington, D.C., where he started his journalism career as a sports reporter for his Western High School student newspaper. Wingo graduated from George Washington University after serving as an enlisted man during the Korean War. He was a reporter for the Washington Daily News, where he received an Ernie Pyle Front Page Award, and became a columnist for Nation's Business before joining U.S. News. The National Press Club was a central part of his life. His daughter, Susan Kiers, recalled attending father/daughter nights at the Club…
Brooks is perhaps best-known for reinventing the modern zombie genre with his "Zombie Survival Guide" and his novel, "World War Z." More than a mere horror tale, "World War Z" builds on Brooks’ extensive research in pandemic planning – which Brooks says the Trump administration largely ignored in its response to COVID-19 – as well as describing how a pandemic threat can transform civil society. His ultimate goal, he has said, is to challenge old ways of thinking and encourage mental agility and flexibility for problem solvers and leaders. In his latest novel, "Devolution," Brooks once again…
Houston’s journalism career spanned more than four decades, including a 20-year stint as a local news reporter for Washington, D.C.’s WTTG-TV Fox 5. She covered the Reagan White House and Capitol Hill as a correspondent for NBC News and worked as an anchor for the ABC Radio Network. Houston also could be heard over the years on WTOP news radio in Washington and as a reporter and anchor on WHDH-AM in Boston. In her book, she used her reporter’s skills to tell the story of her father, Thomas Gray, who was outraged in 1950 by the death of Hilliard Brooks, boyhood friend who was shot and killed…
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For about $300,000 we should be able to run this program until there is a vaccine or hospital capacities return to normal rates.
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