Workers began repainting the Jayhawks center court logo earlier this week. Kansas’ placement of the Big 12 logos in the paint looks sharp. They had previously been placed inside the arc, adjacent to the key.
The schedule this week is interesting as three of the four matchups feature an undefeated team going up against a winless one. Can Arizona, Birmingham and Orlando keep their streaks going against (on paper) easy matchups? Or can Salt Lake, Memphis and Atlanta get on the board in the win column? As always, there will be a pair of games both Saturday and Sunday. Betting odds are via BetOnline....
Britain’s Home Office reported that thousands of migrants have crossed the Channel from France, landing on beaches in southeast England in recent days, with 785 arriving on Monday, the Associated Press reported. In 2020, the French Maritime Prefecture in charge of the Channel reported 868 “operations” in which 9,551 migrants attempted to cross or crossed by boat to the U.K. About 8,500 migrants completed the journey, with several dying during the attempt....
When it comes to the benefits of spending the holiday with family, the research is divided. Routines and rituals like the shared experience of the Thanksgiving dinner have been shown to play an important role in boosting the health and well-being of families. In a review of 50 years of research published in the Journal of Family Psychology, researchers from Syracuse University in New York found these routines were associated with better marital satisfaction, improvements in adolescents’ sense of personal identity and stronger family relationships....
Last week’s protest–which drew an estimated 50,000 Hong Kongers–was a follow-up to the 500,000-person march eight days earlier that stunned the leadership in Hong Kong and Beijing alike. On July 1, organizers told participants–many of whom were new to protests–to wear black. Last week white was the dress code. But the grievances were the same: a general frustration and anger with the poor leadership of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. More demonstrations are planned in what has quickly become the biggest political crisis the territory has faced since its political handover to China in 1997....
Similar hostilities will eventually break out among the contenders in 2008, with fresh ideas and plans little more than cannon fodder. But there’s also plenty of countervailing pressure now to confront problems with more than platitudes. Candidates are torn between the need to show some imaginative beef and a fear that if they do, they open themselves up to distortion. For a genuine national conversation on issues beyond the Iraq War, they need to overcome that fear....
I believe you get it by working hard for change," she said, in thinly veiled shots at John Edwards and Barack Obama. But a funny thing happened on the way to the postdebate “spin room.” While Clinton’s acolytes pointed to this as a key moment in a largely dreary debate, so did Edwards’s aides and Obama’s. In other words, for all the bickering, they agreed on the terrain of battle....
Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu confirmed last week that they and Verratti were keen on a transfer, although PSG have been unwilling to hold talks. Verratti’s agent suggested that his client was trapped at Parc des Princes, prompting the midfielder to issue an apology and reaffirm his commitment to the capital outfit. Dani Alves aims dig at Pep Guardiola Alves, who completed a free transfer to the club on Wednesday, wants the Italy international to stay at Parc des Princes to help them realise their ambition of adding the Champions League to domestic silverware....
Stone owes his notoriety to Dr. William Mayfield, an Atlanta surgeon who is pioneering alternatives to traditional open-heart surgery. In a standard coronary- bypass operation, surgeons sever the patient’s breastbone with a saw, pry open the rib cage with a steel retractor, then stop the heart cold while they reconfigure its supporting blood vessels. Mayfield and other surgeons are learning to do the same job with instruments they can slip through tiny ““keyhole’’ incisions between the ribs (chart)....
Just as Vidal’s Myron Breckinridge, fond husband and loyal Republican, is periodically taken over by his transsexual alter ego, Myra, so the author of such historical novels as “Burr” periodically gives way to the slash-and-burn satirist. (The last outbreak was the 1983 “Duluth,” a poststructuralist sendup of ‘Dallas.’) “Live from Golgotha” reassures us that Vidal still hasn’t gone respectable: Christians and Jews, p.c. gays and uptight straights will all find plenty to offend them....
Last week Melnikas was being questioned by U.S. Customs officials on suspicion of smuggling stolen goods, a crime punishable by up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. He is not speaking to the press, but his lawyer, James E. Phillips of Columbus, says the charge is “inconsistent with his career and his reputation” and adds that Melnikas is “totally bewildered.” If so, he’s not the only one....
For weeks President Abdurrahman Wahid has accused Suharto of trying to destabilize his government. After last week’s bombing, an angry Wahid ordered police to detain Suharto’s youngest son, Hutomo Mandala Putra (Tommy), for questioning. That wasn’t necessary. The wealthy, 38-year-old Tommy–who last year was acquitted of charges in a real-estate scam–went to a police office himself and spent two hours talking with detectives. Later, he strongly denied having any link to the bomb attack and said that he was “very disappointed” with Wahid....
The study, published in the Journal of Perinatal Medicine, examined the delivery outcomes in over 400,000 smokers and 8.6 million non-smokers in the United States between 2004 and 2014. Researchers found that pregnant people who smoked had a 130% increased risk of having a baby that was too small for its developmental stage—heightening the risk of intestinal and urinary disorders, lung problems, and adverse neurological outcomes in childhood. They also discovered a 40% increased risk of premature birth and a 50% increased risk of rupturing the amniotic sac surrounding the fetus before labor begins....
A classic that, on rereading, disappointed: Alan Paton’s “Cry, The Beloved Country.” Still a great book, but it has not aged well. A Certified Important Book that you haven’t read: “A Brief History of Time,” by Stephen Hawking. I tried; I really tried.
As much as the training camp, which will be split between the USA and Brazil, will feature plenty of familiar faces, Klinsmann is sure to call in some new options, and bring back some players who have played their way into the picture as potential depth options. A majority of the spots on the World Cup roster are spoken for, but there is still more than enough time for a good player to push himself into the picture and give Klinsmann a tough decision to make....
Wealth and poverty have always coexisted, uneasily, in France. Its affluent, self-satisfied elites, whether left or right, have never shown much concern for the plight of those on the streets. In the past, when this gap between haves and have-nots grew too wide, a revolt would come along to jolt the nation into reality. Think of the cultural-social earthquake of 1968, or the Paris Commune uprising after France’s humiliation by Bismarck’s Prussians in 1870, or the grandpère of them all, the 1789 Revolution....
The macabre drama has riveted the German public. The memory of Nazism’s horrors gives special urgency in Germany to questions of human dignity, the sanctity of life and the ethics of medical experimentation. When Ploch’s doctors realized they couldn’t save her, they quickly recruited a panel of medical, legal and ethical specialists to help decide what to do about the fetus. Ploch never married, and the father’s identity remains a mystery....
First, the ethnic element. There is no concept about which Americans are more inconsistent, hypocritical, ambivalent, confused and just plain miserable than that one. Often it is used as a way of making a racial designation without seeming to. “Ethnic,” for example, is often (and unaccountably) employed to mean black. “Ethnic” is also commonly used to describe certain white, mostly Eastern Europe-extracted American minorities; they are called “ethnics,” and the term here usually has an unfair negative connotation....
