It isn’t in stellar shape. The hoop is too low on one end, allowing the tallest of generally small men to dunk flamboyantly from the dusty blacktop. At the other end, the basket is a little too high and there’s no net. A swish catches such momentum that it often bounces over the enclosing fence. Street basketball is all about rough conditions, and rough’s the word at the Champs de Mars....
‘Only Alexis would make Spurs team’ England international Alli beat off competition from team-mate Harry Kane as well as Everton full-back Seamus Coleman, Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez and Swansea City midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson after helping Spurs to three wins and two draws last month. Alli, whose team are second, nine points behind Chelsea, said: “The team’s done very well this month, not just me individually. “We’ve had lots of players in form so it’s an honour to win it....
The video, which was taken at Gatorland wildlife park in Orange County, Florida, was posted to Twitter by @Glick_Owens, with the caption: “Life comes at you fast.” Florida is home to 1.3 million alligators, and they live in all of the state’s counties and can be found in wetlands and swamps. Gatorland is home to more than 2,000 American alligators and crocodiles, and acts as a preserve for the species....
Pinkett Smith has publicly spoken about her experience with alopecia areata, which leads to hair loss, over the years, with her condition becoming a talking point after her husband, Will Smith, slapped Chris Rock over his joke about her shaved head. Gervais shared his opinion on the matter during a live Q&Z session on Twitter, saying: “You don’t hit people over a joke, however bad it is. And it wasn’t bad!...
The Soviets understand these risks. Nuclear bombs and artillery shells, unfortunately, are quite durable and portable, and not very difficult to arm. Last week we learned that the commander of Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces withdrew mobile nuclear missiles from their launch positions because he feared some errant commander would try to fire them. Now Yevgeny Velikhov, science adviser to Soviet President Gorbachev, has called for “the international community to play a role in controlling the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal while the country faces the possibility of political collapse....
As chief counsel to the Civil Rights Movement, the young Thurgood Marshall became the scourge of white supremacists. No lawyer in the 20th century did as much as he to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson, the separate-but-equal reading that gave the Constitution’s sanction to Jim Crow. Thirty-two times he brought cases before the court; 29 times he walked out of the building with victories. In Brown v. Board of Education, he finally knocked the slats from under segregation....
Symptoms of duodenal ulcers include: Pain in the stomach or chest Feeling sick or full after eating only a small amount of food Having no appetite Losing weight when you aren’t trying Feeling sick to your stomach or throwing up Blood in your vomit or stool Healthcare providers used to think that ulcers were caused by stress, but today we know that peptic ulcers are usually caused by bacteria (H....
I started off not being pro-gun. I was largely apathetic, kind of leaning toward anti-gun. It became a fascination for me, from a physics and enthusiasm standpoint. I started getting into more political aspects of it and realized that my ability to protect myself with a firearm is probably one of the most important aspects of things that I do in my life, because the most important thing I have is my life....
The Kids–McKinney, Thompson, David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald–take no comic prisoners: their targets include corporate slimeballs, nihilistic punk rockers, closet cases, the media, TV talk shows and dumb cops with weird dreams about sex between toast. Produced by Lorne Michaels and directed by Kelly Makin, “Brain Candy” is tasteless, scattershot, frequently nasty and resolutely unheartwarming. That’s a recommendation. Broad but not dumb, the Kids’ humor keeps you wonderfully off balance–the silliness and subtlety alternate in weird, unexpected ways....
Formerly of Racing Club, where his headed goal clinched a first title in 13 years for the club back in 2014, Centurion had a brief, unsuccessful spell in Italy with Genoa and a mixed 18 months with Sao Paulo before landing in La Boca on loan back in August. With Tevez taking on playmaking duties the 24-year-old’s impact was limited in his first weeks at the club, but he has come into his own since Carlitos took up the offer to become one of the world’s highest-paid players at Shanghai Shenhua....
These blasé backers of illiberalism might want to talk to a few Russians. They might learn how hundreds of thousands are currently scrambling to flee Russia to escape economic devastation and conscription into a failing war of choice. Tickets to countries that might receive them—from Kazakhstan to Armenia—have run out or cost a black-market-level fortune. These would-be escapees doubtless include many who have voted for longtime Russian President Vladimir Putin....
An Important Book that you admit you haven’t read: “The Magic Mountain” by Thomas Mann. I keep climbing up the mountain and then I stop. I’ve read the first 150 pages three times. Which classic did you go back to and find disappointing? There are things that I loved in high school that I will not revisit for fear that they will not hold that place anymore. title: “A Life In Books Nathan Englander” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-21” author: “Mary Arment” “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories” by Nikolai Gogol....
The most painfully touching moments in this former Beach Boy’s autobiography occur after he began his recovery from years of addiction, obesity and mental illness. Schooled by his shrink in everything from sobriety to table manners, the fortysomething Wilson had progressed to making his way through basic social situations. While practicing his new skills at a party, he spoke to a young girl “with shiny cheeks and a bright smile....
With Madison Bumgarner and Johnny Cueto headlining the rotation, San Francisco posted a 45-20 record after April, despite injuries to three every day position players (Hunter Pence, Joe Panik and Matt Duffy), a starting pitcher (Matt Cain), and their eighth-inning set-up guy (Sergio Romo). MORE: These players need to step it up in the second half But like every other team with a division lead at the break, or in a real fight for a wild-card spot, the Giants have weaknesses that need to be addressed....
My being in that room was a happy accident. At the time, I was just 29 years old. Just a few years out of law school, I had clerked for Judge Luttig and the chief justice and had spent two years in private practice. And as it so happened, I was the only practicing litigator on the full-time campaign staff in Austin. What I had practiced, albeit briefly, was constitutional litigation....
Christmas Eve, 2005: We were sitting outside our bunkers enjoying a stoagie and trying to watch a movie. There were about 45 of us. The excitement began just as the movie started. A guard post called out to say that they had aggressors moving toward our perimeter wall. I heard a single pop out to the Northeast, then the shooting began. AK-47s and M-16 machine guns rang out close by as our guys exchanged fire with the enemy....
What drew you to medicine? I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and I had never seen a female doctor. My mother wanted to be a nurse and my father wanted to be a doctor, but neither could go to college because they were poor. I’m living their dream. They were never able to do this because they grew up poor in Alabama at the wrong time....
That first Mustang was the result of some of the first mature market research data analysis Ford conducted. “Marketing research said that there was a new generation coming of age. They had their own music with The Beatles and The Stones and the Beach Boys,” Ted Ryan, Ford archives and heritage brand manager told Newsweek at an event before the Detroit auto show. “They wanted their own cars. There were more double income families, more two car families....
Barely 1 percent of all auto thefts-1.7 million in 1991-are carjackings. But a recent spate of armed automobile robberies has nonetheless rattled motorists who think of their cars as freewheeling havens from the violent crime that lurks beyond the headlights. A recent FBI study estimates that carjackings have increased exponentially in the last three years, with more than 40,000 committed in the last 22 months nationwide-an average of more than 60 a day....
