Our hands are all over these butterflies, yet still they slip through our grasp. By the time you’re reading this, these Poweshieks will have died — the average adult only lives for a couple weeks.

Louisiana Tech women's basketball coach Sonja Hogg is carried off the court by her players after winning the 1981 AIAW national championship. Harley Soltes / AP ...

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Meanwhile, McAuliffe still narrowly edged Youngkin among white voters with a college degree; in fact, his margin wasn’t much different from Biden’s in Virginia last November. By contrast ...