Laura Williams remembers a conversation she had four years ago, when she was an eighth-grade basketball player who had just started to take the sport seriously. Scott Allen, coach of Washington Catholic Athletic Conference power Paul VI, had come to see her play, and he pulled her aside for a conversation after the game. “You can be one of the greatest players to ever come through my program,” Allen told her.

Consumer Reports is calling for the removal of Lunchables from school trays across the country after discovering concerning levels of lead and sodium and a potentially harmful chemical in their packaging in products sold in stores. A petition lobbying the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get rid of the Kraft Heinz products from the National School Lunch Program has more than 14,000 signatures. Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports, said the nonprofit watchdog found concerning levels of lead when it tested store-bought Lunchables.

This story has been updated. Contrary to some of the recent buzz around mouthwash, a daily gargle is probably not going to protect you from the novel coronavirus. Instead, experts say new research has “promising” implications for the potential of mouthwash to help infected individuals reduce their risk of spreading the deadly virus. “It’s an exciting avenue, especially as we face many increasing challenges with access to vaccines and different therapeutics,” said Nicholas Rowan, an ear, nose and throat surgeon and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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In early 2014, Hans Fex was barely hanging on. His house in Sterling, Va., was headed to foreclosure. He was jobless, broke and depressed. He wasn’t shaving and was barely eating. But with the help of a couple of friends, he was about to launch on Kickstarter a make-or-break project — clear acrylic “Mini Museums” filled with tiny artifacts he’d collected from around the world — in hopes of selling a few hundred.