The Daily Populous

Tuesday August 21st, 2018 night edition

image for When students were bullied because of dirty clothes, a principal installed a free laundromat at school

Cook said many students at West Side faced humiliation because they didn't have anything clean to wear.

So when school starts September 4, there will be a new facility in the building: a free laundromat.

Students pick out their favorite detergent in the new laundry room.

Kids who could not afford to wash their clothes faced intense teasing when they showed up in dirty outfits.

He saw the posts and quickly suspected that the bullying was a top reason why 85% of his students chronically missed school.

Student Rah-Asia Marrow stocks the shelves with donated laundry detergent for the student laundromat at West Side High School.

Principal Akbar Cook poses with a few of the graduating students of the West Side High School class of 2018. »

China, World’s Biggest Polluter, Hits Carbon Goals—12 Years Early: Study

Authored by thedailybeast.com

China, the world’s largest source of planet-warming carbon emissions, may have hit the peak it promised in the Paris climate accord well before its 2030 timetable.

Guan and his colleagues estimate Chinese emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases topped out in 2013 at about 9.5 billion tons.

After nearly three decades of rapid growth, China passed the United States to become the world’s largest source of carbon emissions in 2006. »

Tesla Gigafactory 1 now employs over 3,000 workers as it becomes biggest battery factory in the world

Authored by electrek.co
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Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada has now become the biggest battery factory in the world with an output of 20 GWh per year and growing.

Now a new audit of the factory shows that Tesla is still on pace to comply with its obligations with the state for the factory as it now employs over 3,000 workers.

As we previously reported, H&T, or Heitkamp & Thumann Group, is manufacturing battery cell cans for Tesla and Panasonic at Gigafactory 1. »

Newly Found Enzymes Can Help Turn Type A and B Blood into Universal Type O

Authored by sci-news.com

“We have been particularly interested in enzymes that allow us to remove the A or B antigens from red blood cells.

If you can remove those antigens, which are just simple sugars, then you can convert A or B to O blood,” Dr. Withers said.

“Scientists have pursued the idea of adjusting donated blood to a common type for a while, but they have yet to find efficient, selective enzymes that are also safe and economical.”. »

Mollie Tibbetts, missing Iowa student, found dead, her father says

Authored by foxnews.com
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Greg Willey, the vice president of Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa, also told the Associated Press the body found Tuesday is believed to be Tibbetts.

MOLLIE TIBBETTS, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA STUDENT, MISSING: A TIMELINE OF EVENTS.

MOLLIE TIBBETTS, MISSING IOWA STUDENT, HAS ALWAYS RELIED ON PRAYER, DAD SAYS. »