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In June 2018, Gates offered free ebooks, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, [162] and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds OpenStax , which creates and provides free digital textbooks. [ 165 ]
Biden plans to raise taxes on corporations and those making over $400,000 per year, while keeping the reduced taxes on lower-income brackets and raise capital gains taxes to a maximum bracket of 39.6%. In response, Trump said Biden's plans would destroy retirement accounts and the stock market. [289]
Wakefield published his 1998 paper on autism in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, claiming to have identified a novel form of enterocolitis linked to autism. However, other researchers were unable to reproduce his findings, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and a 2004 investigation by Sunday Times reporter Brian Deer identified undisclosed financial ...
Within three months, the virus had spread throughout the continent; Lesotho, the last African sovereign state to have remained free of the virus, reported its first case on 13 May 2020. [ 387 ] [ 388 ] By 26 May, it appeared that most African countries were experiencing community transmission, although testing capacity was limited. [ 389 ]
The festival includes a large parade in the city centre, free concerts, street fairs and performances. Festival participants dress up in a variety of costumes and walk around the city fooling around and pranking passersby. One of the traditions on April Fools' Day is to dress up the main city monument in funny clothes.