Daily Brief for January 27, 2022
Ukraine | COVID-19 | U.S. SUPREME COURT
UKRAINE | The U.S. is threatening painful sanctions against Russia if it launches an attack on Ukraine, but Moscow could hit back at the West by throttling natural gas supplies to Europe or triggering a spike in oil prices, experts and former U.S. officials say. [more]
COVID-19 | World scientists are monitoring the emergence of a new COVID-19 subvariant of the omicron variant. The new BA.2 subvariant has been nicknamed "stealth omicron" and is apparently driving outbreaks across Europe. [more]
U.S. SUPREME COURT | President Joe Biden has tapped a team of White House advisers with lengthy Supreme Court and Senate confirmation experience as he prepares to nominate the first Black woman to be an associate justice. [more]
On this day in 1986, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Florida, killing all seven aboard, including a schoolteacher who had been chosen as the first American civilian to travel in space. [more history]
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Heinlein's Finches
For many the Patrol is a gateway to a better life. A way to escape the limitation of their birth class, to realise their full potential, and to travel the galaxy. In order to join, cadets must be good. The training will make them better. And only the very best will ever have a chance of joining the teaching staff. Unfortunately, the problem with being outstanding is that it makes you stand out. And when an individual stands out too much, even an established Professor... Well, someone may decide to do something about that. Something terminal. When Gwen and Asher McGee get caught in the cross-hairs, every aspect of their lives is put to the test: their relationships, their loyalties, their beliefs, their dreams, their scars, even their identities. Will they be able to hold on to what really matters?
