“I thought Thomas should have been a bit more intense, I thought Thomas should have dominated,” said Lee said back in July of 2016. “I just thought the impact he would have made on this camp would have been a bit more.” MORE: Colin White sets sights on cracking Senators’ roster Chabot returned to junior for the 2016-17 season and led the Saint John Sea Dogs to an appearance at the Memorial Cup....
But now John was back. After living in Arkansas for several months, he had returned to the family’s bright red, cedar-frame ranch in the Rocky Mountain foothills. He made it clear: he didn’t want a divorce. Uncomfortable with him in the house, Terry packed her Forest Service uniform in a backpack and went to spend the night with her best friend, Stephanie Howard, a wildlife biologist. The next morning, on June 8, she drove to her job in the Pike National Forest....
Remember the Defense Department’s ill-fated proposal to create a terror futures market this year? The tone-deaf idea was quickly shot down, but the underlying science is being explored by a handful of large companies like IBM, Microsoft and Ford. Experimental economics is “a wind tunnel for business,” says HP senior scientist Kay-Yut Chen. Testing economic theories through experiments sounds like a no-brainer, but it wasn’t always so. Vernon Smith, a professor at George Mason University, began doing it in 1956....
For some, that may take the form of volunteering with a mentorship organization, and spending a set amount of time with underprivileged youth. As an individual decision, that’s laudable. But ever since the Clinton era, politicians have offered mentorship programs as a solution to the problems of at-risk youth because they fit into an individualistic, value-neutral approach to policymaking. As I write in a new research paper for National Affairs, the limits of this technocratic approach to improving the lives of poor or working-class children have become apparent....
The NBA has seen rivalries come and go in recent years, but this year’s Christmas Day schedule places a spotlight on a new era of rivalries that brings about nostalgic feelings from rivalries past. While Luka Doncic ascends into generational superstardom, LeBron James begins to enter the twilight of his decades-long run as one of the NBA’s best. The similarities of their games and the mutual respect between the two generational talents are especially reminiscent of the bond between Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, the epitome of the “idols become rivals” dynamic in the NBA....
How would partitioning work? Many details still need to be hammered out, but Bosnian Serbs would get up to half of the republic and Bosnian Croats some 30 percent. Both ethnic groups would apparently be free to link up with, respectively, Serbia and Croatia. The proposed state for Muslims would consist of two separate landlocked pockets on some 20 percent of the land. How could the plan fail? Here are some of the ways:...
It’s a folk remedy, not a clinically proven treatment. But science is starting to figure out why sour-cherry juice just might work for Tennes and his customers. The secret is in the pigments that give cherries their rich red hue. They belong to a class of natural dyes called anthocyanins (Greek for “blue flower”) that color fruits like blueberries, strawberries and plums. According to Dr. Muraleedharan Nair at Michigan State University, lab tests show that the anthocyanins in tart cherries give 10 times the anti-inflammatory relief of aspirin, without irritating the stomach....
According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows the state broke its record of the highest number of cases in a day Thursday with 77,848 cases reported. However, the report clarified that some of the cases were from previous days but backdated by the state. Regardless, the state has been seeing a dramatic surge in cases, with the seven-day average increasing to more than 36,400 new cases....
It’s the kind of story nobody wants to believe, a shabby tale of political dirty tricks that belongs in a third-string banana republic. But it has persisted ever since the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1981, when Iran released the American hostages just minutes after he was sworn in. Had the Reagan campaign cut a deal with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to hold onto the prisoners long enough to ensure Reagan’s election?...
The studio deliberated. Cannes is the world’s largest film festival, but Venice is the oldest and classiest. Besides, Kubrick clearly preferred it. “Venice had favored-nation status with Stanley,” says producer Julian Senior. Kubrick had sent “A Clockwork Orange” there in 1971, and in 1997 the festival gave him a lifetime achieve- ment award. Studio executives reasoned that Venice could be the perfect launch pad for the movie’s European release this fall....
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Gilliatt is a British-born interior designer who has written more than two dozen decorating books. Her latest, published by Little, Brown ($21.95), is a companion to the series. She specializes in making the arcane accessible, and much of the series concentrates on a visual dictionary, with definitions of various styles and design elements. With her British accent and her conservative cardigans and pearls, Gilliatt comes across like a proper nanny, offering instruction on decor rather than decorum....
Venditte worked a scoreless seventh inning against the Red Sox at Fenway Park, allowing a single to Hanley Ramirez before getting Mike Napoli to ground into an inning-ending double play. He then worked a perfect eighth. MORE: Woman critically injured by broken bat | Nats, A’s talking deal for Ben Zobrist The 29-year-old was called up earlier Friday from Triple-A Nashville, where he posted a 1.36 ERA and 33 strikeouts in 33 innings....
That’s not the case anymore. Today, Marikina still has 600 registered shoemakers–but most are tiny outfits making shoes with hand tools and outdated equipment. That’s left them vulnerable to Chinese competition, and now Marikina’s industry is dying. The Needs Footwear Co. is one of many Marikina companies that is suffering. Five years ago Needs employed 30 people and made 1,000 pairs of shoes a week. Today, production is down to 400 pairs weekly, and there are only four to 10 workers in the factory, depending on orders....
That squirrel has more points than Kent State did at halftime. The run itself was pretty impressive, but can we give some credit to that announcer? He was extremely hyped by the sight of the squirrel, and then lost his mind once he realized the mammal was on its way to the endzone. MORE: Week 4 College Football live updates, scores and highlights We went ahead and provided a mock up NFL Combine card for our little friend....
So how did they wind up inside the car? In 1988 a Madison clerk was driving them to a storage warehouse when his car failed. He left it at Johnny’s Transmission Shop but never came back to pick it up. There it sat until last spring, when a tornado wrecked the car. An insurance adjuster then stumbled on the documents. Prosecutors believe the papers will help illuminate McDougal’s and Clinton’s business ties....
DALY: Is this a political film? MALKOVICH: I think so-called political films are usually just polemics, and I’m not really interested in that. I don’t have a party, I don’t have a belief, I don’t have any position to support or defend. It’s just telling a story. And even if it were a film about Sendero Luminoso–I don’t see them as very political, at least in the best sense of the word; I see them as murderers....
With COVID-19 cases surging across the country, officials are urging people to avoid gathering in large groups over the upcoming holiday. But the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health at Michigan Medicine, which received responses from 1,443 parents of at least one child aged 12 or under, found some parents may prioritize continuing holiday traditions over reducing the risk of transmitting the virus. One in three parents said the benefits of gathering with family for the holidays are worth the risk of getting or spreading the virus, according to the poll....
