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How the Smallpox Epidemic Led to the First Vaccine Passport

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In the early 1950s, the USAF had a problem: The F-101 Voodoo…

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I was a kid of the 1960s, when the very mention of…

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The Story Texas Schoolkids Grow Up on Is Only a Invention

The Texas State Board of Education is set to approve a new…