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Jack and Sharon King, shortly after they were married in the mid-1950s. When Pam Male monarch, their eldest child, discovered she was actually born a year before their wedding, information technology prompted a years-long search for the truth nigh her biological male parent.

Randy King is a freelance writer and producer for MediaKingdom LLC based in suburban Chicago. He's worked in television and the media throughout his career and is currently producing a documentary about his sis'southward story.

Unraveling Family Secrets

Mom & the Pizza Man: My Sister's Stunning Deoxyribonucleic acid Test Discovery

March 2022

By RANDY KING

It's springtime, a favorite fourth dimension of year for me. The snowfall is melting, the trees are near to bud, and the flowers are emerging from the thawing basis. It's likewise what you might phone call the "holiday-gifted-Dna-test-results" season!

All those folks who eagerly spit in a tube in December, and then sent it off for assay (subsequently receiving one of those Deoxyribonucleic acid ethnicity and genealogy home test kits from Santa or someone else) are now anxiously awaiting their results. Near 15 pct of U.Southward. adults have used a DNA testing service, including market leaders AncestryDNA and 23andMe, according to a recentPew Research Center survey. 27 pct of those receiving their results then learn about close relatives they never knew they had.

Among the most hopeful are those trying to detect their birth mothers or fathers. Then, those often (very) surprised parents get an electronic mail, text or phone phone call from an unknown offspring cautiously reaching out to say, "I think you might be my mom/pop." In that location are also those withal trying to connect the dots, tracking down Dna matches and desperately searching for answers.

Pamela Bacon, a 66-year-old registered nurse from Portage, Michigan, who was too recently gifted with a test, received a major surprise as well when her DNA results arrived. They included a list of names of shut relatives, including her siblings, with whom she grew up. But they also included other names, who weren't a role of her family every bit she knew information technology. (more than…)

Tim Munkeby is an author, former teacher, and retired fiscal advisor. He'south too a Reporters Inc. Advisory Committee Member. Y'all can read more than nigh him on our Squad page and on his web site at timmunkeby.com.

A Tale of Two Worlds

Our response to COVID: As it could have been—and how it may end instead

Feb 2022

BY TIM MUNKEBY

Sometimes we can't meet the forest for the trees. We need to rise above it all, for a longer perspective, a broader view. Only and so can we truly go a sense of the direction our world is heading.

Are nosotros moving toward a better, utopian earth? Toward world peace? Toward a planet filled with more humane leaders who govern to benefit their populace?

Or are we drifting more toward a dystopian globe? One in which leaders only govern to meliorate their own lot. A world where little is done to mitigate the climate crisis, defeat the pandemic, or take intendance of our environment.

People around the earth deserve to be good for you and alive, not in desperation, but happily. We have the ability to make our lives better—or worse.

So, will nosotros ultimately strive for benevolence and utopia, or deposition and dystopia? It'southward our choice. Let's consider the consequences of each.

UTOPIA: Striving for Platonic laws, functional regime, and humane social conditions worldwide

In this version of our future, people in the Us are worried.

That's because many of our elders vividly recall stories of the Spanish Influenza of 1918 when one billion became infected, and 500 million died. Schools and businesses had been shuttered back then. People were ordered to wear masks and avoid shut contact—that being the but ways to mitigate the destruction since no vaccine had been developed.

To this 24-hour interval, the Spanish Flu strain, H1N1, withal prevails. But avant-garde countries now have a flu vaccine minimizing sickness and death, and heedful people seek it out. They as well realize and acknowledge that the vaccines developed to prevent Smallpox, Measles and Polio limit infections and curtail deaths. Very few question the efficacy of the vaccinations and don't hesitate to vaccinate themselves and their children.

They call back or study or learn from the facts of history—that in 1947 New York City was footing zero for Smallpox, and it became a frightening threat. But in less than a month, when 84 pct of the metropolis became vaccinated, the epidemic came to an cease. People believe in science, listen to the truth. When Polio reared its ugly head, a vaccine was developed. And at that place was no vaccine resistance by the populous. No lawsuits, no protests, (more than…)

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