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Chesson’s experience is one dramatic instance among thousands of so-called fume events reported to the Federal Aviation Administration since 2010, in which toxic fumes from a jet’s engines leak unfiltered into the cockpit or cabin.

Nakamura wasn’t there to tee off on inferior opponents—or for a few thousand bucks in prize money.

Scientists have said vaccines’ benefits outweigh rare risks and that medical advances now protect children against a long list of diseases that in the past killed thousands every year.

In encampments such as Fort Monroe, Union forces in the Civil War were joined by thousands of African-Americans seeking liberty and protection.

Overall, the administration expects the federal workforce to end the year with hundreds of thousands fewer employees, attributed to a hiring freeze, layoffs and voluntary departures.