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Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95
Read full article: Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95The former child actor Jane Withers, who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the screen and went on to star in a series of B movies that made her a box-office champion, has died.
2 nurses: Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one
Read full article: 2 nurses: Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this oneIn 1918, Stokes' mother Kristine Berg Mueller was a 14-year-old hospital volunteer in Norway during the Spanish Flu pandemic, putting her in regular contact with the deadly disease. Mueller was a 14-year-old student in her native Norway when the flu pandemic hit. It eventually killed an estimated 50 million people, including some 675,000 in the United States, according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. AdDecades after the flu pandemic passed, Stokes' mother would tell her that was what had inspired her to become a nurse. She moved to the United States in 1923 and enrolled in a U.S. nursing program four years later.
Lakers, Heat start their preparations for NBA Finals
Read full article: Lakers, Heat start their preparations for NBA FinalsWhat was once a 22-team bubble at Walt Disney World is down to the final two, with Adebayo and the Miami Heat set to take on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals that start on Wednesday night. It’s the first finals matchup between the clubs, with the Lakers looking for a record-tying 17th title and the Heat seeking their fourth in the last 15 seasons. “But we know that the job isn’t done yet.”The Heat were spending much of Monday resting up before an evening team meeting would officially start their finals preparation process. Much like the Heat, the Lakers took a moment to enjoy winning the conference title. By Game 4 or so of this series, the Lakers and Heat will have been at Disney for three months.