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"It's not a question of if this will happen but when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illnesses." The CDC expects the COVID-19 coronavirus to spread in the US and warns that disruptions to daily life could be "severe." 1/18
"If the disease continues to be as severe as it is now, 'cold and flu season' could become 'cold and flu and COVID-19 season.'" 2/18
To sum up last night's Democratic debate, the last before Super Tuesday next week: "Occasionally, in life, you can reach a point where you can no longer tolerate the sound of human voices." 3/18
Like Trump, aging Democratic presidential candidates haven't been forthcoming with their medical records. 4/18
Musician David Roback of Mazzy Star, Rain Parade, and Opal has died at 61. 5/18
Related: The music video for Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You." 6/18
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the strongman who ruled Egypt for 29 years, and who was ousted in the Arab Spring, has died at 91. 7/18
More than a dozen people in New Delhi have been killed in clashes between opposing groups of protestors over legislation that makes it easier for non-Muslims in neighboring countries to become Indian citizens. 8/18
John Oliver criticized Prime Minister Modi in his Tuesday show. Disney India blocked the episode on its platform. 9/18
The Supreme Court has ruled that the family of a Mexican teenager shot and killed by a Border Patrol officer can't sue, because the child was on the Mexico side of the border while the officer was on American soil. 10/18
Reprising last summer's antics, Oregon Republicans play hooky—keeping legislature, about to pass a climate bill, from a quorum. 11/18
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The biggest bluegrass scene outside of the United States is in the Czech Republic, where it was the sound of the counterculture. 12/18
For possibly hundreds of years, the locksmiths of Dindigul, India, have been inventing and crafting locks designed to confound. 13/18
See also: A man dies, leaving behind, among other things, a combination lock. Opening it may just prove the existence of the afterlife. 14/18
How to read beloved—but sexist or racist—children's books: Point out their faults to your audience. 15/18
"A list of fictional stories that, when written, were set in the future, but the future they predicted is now present or past." 16/18
Guess which items from Amazon are counterfeit when placed next to their authentic counterparts. 17/18
Cécile Davidovici embroiders scenes from the home movies of her childhood. 18/18
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