But which is the mightier of the two? The Key Physical Differences There are two living species of alligator—the American alligator and the Chinese alligator. The former is the larger of the two, with male American gators reaching up to 15 feet in length and weighing up to 1,000 pounds. Male Chinese alligators grow to about 5ft and weigh up to around 85lbs. Crocodiles are more diverse, with 14 different species....
More than 141,000 people have tested positive for the virus in the United States, according to state health department websites. New York, New Jersey and Michigan have experienced some of the largest outbreaks, but officials are advising all states to prepare for a spike in cases. On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged that a number of areas had a “trickling” of cases....
But the Obama camp might not want to rest on its laurels. Among Hawaii’s congressional delegation, nominee support is fractured. The state’s senior senator, Daniel Inouye, announced two weeks ago he would support Hillary Clinton. Rep. Neil Abercrombie is supporting Obama, but Sen. Daniel Akaka remains quiet on the matter. “The Democrats in Hawaii are less and less cohesive,” says Jim Shon, a political analyst and former state legislator....
But only 79 minutes. When the final whistle blew, and Bayern had completed a 1-0 victory over Werder Bremen that clinched an eighth consecutive Bundesliga title, Davies had been disqualified from the game because he’d twice been shown yellow cards. The second of them was harsh, because he’d not done anything physically egregious and neither had he wrecked a promising play with his foul. Regardless, he was sent off and Bayern had to preserve its one-goal lead with only 10 men....
Give credit where it’s due: Hillary Clinton has shown grit and determination in finishing out the race. She has proved herself a strong campaigner. And in the week since West Virginia, she has stopped the cheap shots that had marred her campaign this year. But Clinton has continued with one claim that could have a pernicious effect on the Democrats’ chances in November. While she knows that the nomination is determined by delegates, Hillary insists on saying at every opportunity that she is winning the popular vote....
The video was taken and posted to TikTok by professional shark diver and marine biologist Andriana Fragola. It shows the injured shark swimming alongside a boat, its jaw appearing to be “ripped completely out” as it hangs off the side of its face. Fragola says in the video that the female shark is unable to close her mouth because of the injury and that another shark of about the same size was spotted with a similar injury in May....
The Jackson Pollock-ish photographs from Hubble show splotches and spirals, dwarfs and giants, footballs and drips. Some galaxies are dose by, others are unimaginably distant in space and therefore in time: even traveling at 186,000 miles per second, the light arriving at Hubble must have begun its journey from these deepest galaxies cons ago, bearing information about what the galaxy was like when the light began its journey. “We are clearly seeing some of the galaxies as they were more than 10 billion years ago,” says Williams....
Barring last-minute appeals, the state of Arkansas will execute three men for the Lehman murder this week. Scheduled to die by means of lethal injection are Darryl Richley, 43, Hoyt Clines, 37, and James Holmes, 37. Little-noticed in this crime-disgusted environment, it would be the first time since 1962 that a state has executed three people at once. Arkansas, no slouch in the assembly-line department, executed two men just this past May, the first multiple execution since capital punishment was resumed in 1977....
Following the Cleveland Brown's pick of Johnny Manziel, ESPN reporter Sal Paolantonio stated that Browns' owner Jimmy Haslam was convinced by a homeless person to draft the Texas A&M quarterback. You really can't make this type of stuff up.
The exact details are still sketchy nearly a month after the episode–but Williams, 34, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shotgun death of Costas (Gus) Christofi, a 55-year-old limo driver who had spent the evening chauffeuring Williams and his friends around. Summoned to the estate around 3 a.m., New Jersey state troopers found Christofi on the floor of Williams’s bedroom with a massive wound in the chest. Witnesses said Williams had been handling the shotgun in a reckless way, according to police....
But Auslander is done hiding from him. And he’s struck back with “Foreskin’s Lament,” his blasphemous and funny new memoir of growing up in an ultra-Orthodox community in upstate New York. Though the writer ultimately flees the faith, he still hasn’t escaped his tormentor. In fact, he’s expecting a thunderbolt to singe him any minute now. As he writes in the book, “I believe in God. It’s been a real problem for me....
“Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville. It’s a book I reread every 10 years, which is coming up again. I even love the whale parts. “Winter’s Tales” by Isak Dinesen. It has two of my favorite Dinesen stories, “Sorrow Acre” and “The Sailor-Boy’s Tale.” “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.” Her poems taught me to “tell all the truth/but tell it slant.” “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak. This stood the world of children’s picture books on its head in 1963....
Role of Endocrine System Your body’s endocrine system secretes and controls the hormones that regulate many body processes including metabolism, use of nutrients, excretion, and reproduction. As you age, these systems become less efficient, leading to changes in your body, such as menopause. The hormone theory of aging states that these changes eventually cause the effects of aging. Do Hormones Cause Aging? There is some evidence to support the hormone theory of aging....
As a player, Karl the punk may have Invented the defensive “flop”-the nasty habit of falling down whenever an opponent got within breathing space. hoping to draw a foul. But as the current NBA standings indicate-Karl’s Seattle SuperSonics leading the Pacific division of the National Basketball Association with the best record in the league-the deadend kid, 42. has learned to perform one continuous, stunningly upscale flip-flop. In the nearly two and a half seasons he’s spent resurrecting himself in the Pacific Northwest, the Sonics have a 142-76 record, second only to the three-peat champion Jordanian Bulls....
Whatever the Israeli planes were doing in Syria, Iran’s nuclear program—which Tehran says is peaceful—couldn’t help but loom over their mission. “It’s a tacit reminder to Europe and to Washington that if they don’t take a tougher action against Iran, Israel may have to do it alone,” says Avner Cohen, a nuclear expert and a senior fellow at the United States Institute for Peace. Details of the Israeli operation remain hazy....
What should the public make of all this? Are the schools getting better, worse, or just jogging in place? The answer is yes and no and and all of the above. And, as the presidential campaign approaches,’ the picture is likely to become even blurrier. Both parties are already scouring the stream of confounding statistics, plucking selective evidence for one partisan point or another. Republicans will likely continue to trumpet the negative numbers in order to prove that government needs to give public-school students vouchers to pay for private tuition....
So far, at least, the Bush administration isn’t saying. Bush himself, while acknowledging the possibility for “a vastly restructured national-security posture,” also insists, “It’s way too early-way too early-to get into that.” Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, who in February announced a five-year plan to cut U.S. force levels by 25 percent, is now hesitating to endorse further cuts; Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams says, “You can’t run the military as on today’s weather report....
The study reignited a long-term debate over the effects of child care and made many working parents anxious. But researchers caution against an overly simplistic interpretation of the results. “The easy answer is to cut the number of hours children are in care,” says Sarah Friedman, scientific coordinator of the study. However, Friedman says, scientists do not yet know whether the hours in child care alone or other factors caused the children to behave more aggressively....
