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‘Don’tjudge me,becauseI amhuman ...I justhappen torun a littlefaster.’SHA’CARRI RICHARDSON,
American sprinter, speaking
to the Today show on July 2
about her suspension from the
U.S. Olympic team after testing
positive for THC‘It’s very quiet.The other horses know.’JERRY GILBERT, the owner of Big Jake, the world’s
tallest horse, in a July 5 interview with local news channel WMTV
after Big Jake’s death at the age of 20‘We willfully supportour producersand theirexcellence.Long liveFrenchchampagne!’FRANCK RIESTER,
French trade minister, in a July 5
tweet addressing a new Russian
law banning foreign producers
of sparkling wine from using the
term champagne, even those in
the French region from which the
name originates‘I DO NOT
WANT TO WIN
SOMEONE
EL SE’S^
GAME.’
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times
journalist who created the 1619 Project, announcing on
July 6 that she was declining a tenured position at the University
of North Carolina, offered after an outcry over its
trustees’ earlier refusal to consider her for the appointment;
she instead accepted a position at Howard University‘The most
important
thing is that
my people
are free—free
from the
i n v a d e r s .’DEBRETSION GEBREMICHAEL,
leader of the Tigray region
in Ethiopia, in a July 3
interview with the New York
Times after his guerrilla
forces retook the city of
Mekelle from Ethiopian
troops stationed there
since last fall146,
years
Minimum age of a
fossilized skull of
an ancient human
found in northern
China, nicknamed the
Dragon Man, scientists
announced on June 2582
Age of Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk, who
underwent astronaut training in 1961
as part of the canceled “Mercury 13”
Woman in Space Program, and will
travel with Jeff Bezos to space on
July 20 aboard a rocket made by his
company Blue OriginGOOD NEWS
of the weekTrials run in Iceland from
2015 to 2019 found that
reducing the workweek
from 40 hours to around
35 hours without
lowering pay was an
“overwhelming success”
with no productivity loss,
researchers said on July For the Record