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Extra, Extra: Yet Another Reminder That Dolly Parton Is Good
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Published Aug 2, 2021
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- A month after President Biden's initial goal, 70% of all American adults have gotten at least one dose of the COVID vaccine.
- As for the other 30% of adults who have not been vaccinated, here's a look at some of them, including the guy who suggests, "They’d have to Taser me, drag me out, and give it to me while I’m unaware of it."
- The government is hoping that patients can testify in its case against Theranos fabulist Elizabeth Holmes. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Two [patients] received false HIV-positive results; another got a test that should have flagged a dangerous extrauterine pregnancy but missed it."
- A 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard is going to stand trial in Germany. He is "accused of complicity in 3,518 murders."
- Alcohol company Pernod Ricard is working on encouraging Generation Z to drink water, too.
- Dolly Parton recently revealed that she invested royalties from Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" in a Black neighborhood in Nashville.
- Lorne Michaels is reportedly asking Saturday Night Live veterans to stick around a few more seasons, especially to be there for the 50th anniversary in 2024.
- Yes, Olympic diver Tim Daley was knitting a dog sweater during the Olympics, but did you know he also crochets cat couches?
- Get ready to go back to Middle Earth.
- The Guggenheim's curators, conservators, and other employees are trying to join a union.
- And why don't more zoos give their animals sunglasses?
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