What Atlantic Readers Thought About Marijuana in the ’90s
I n 1994, Eric Schlosser was eating breakfast at home when he received a
phone call from the editor in chief of The Atlantic , Bill Whitworth.
“Eric,” Schlosser recalls Whitworth asking, “is there anyone in prison
right now for marijuana?” The call came as a surprise. It had been only a
few months since the publication of Schlosser’s first Atlantic
article—picked up from the slush pile—on the New
Humorous touches and an eclectic art collection sit alongside
immaculately preserved features in this handsome Regency townhouse in
Bath I have done remarkably little to this house,” says Bill Keeling,
who moved from the “claustrophobia” of London to a quiet leafy street in
Bath five years ago. “I find the city architecturally beautiful,” he
says. The former foreign correspondent bought the Georg
Young survivors confront the world in their own hand-drawn masks for
photographer Marieke van der Velden When photographer Marieke van der
Velden was asked by the Dutch charity Down to Zero to do an
awareness-raising project on Thai children who had been victims of
commercial sexual exploitation, she was uncertain how to proceed. For
obvious reasons, her subjects’ faces could not be shown. At hom
Trump’s
ambitions for US lunar exploration will be a further boost to the
billionaires building a new generation of rockets President Donald Trump
has struggled with some of his signature policy promises, but now he
has set his sights higher: a return to the moon, five decades after
humans last set foot there. The White House has spoken of landing the
first woman on the moon within five years and
Ex-financial
ombudsman Walter Merricks tells why he took on the case that could now
pay each adult in the UK £300 When the Consumer Rights Act came into
force in 2015, one man was keeping a keen eye on businesses failing to
serve their customers properly. So when Mastercard didn’t respond to a
ruling from the European commission that it was profiting unfairly on
transaction fees, the “lack of cont
An
unofficial Dartford crossing website is just one instance of online
mimicry that costs users dear A website that tricks unwary drivers into
paying three times the cost of using the Dartford crossing has been
removed from the top of Google search results, following pressure from
the Observer . Drivers crossing the Thames via the Queen Elizabeth II
Bridge from Essex into Kent, or the Dartford tun
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Hey there, Hibiscadelphus woodii . How you been? The plant, which is
also known as "Wood's hau kuahiwi" and was thought to be extinct, is
apparently still around and possibly even flourishing in its native
Hawaii. Researchers for the National Tropical Botanical Garden on the
island of Kauai made the discovery with a little help from a drone. SEE
ALSO: In a glamorous turn of events, polar bears ar
1921 Churchill wrote Iraq High Comm Cox that Feisal needed to be told
all British would be out of Iraq by end of year unless he gave up
demands for more power ( Musings On Iraq article on Churchill’s views on
Mesopotamia) ( Musings On Iraq book review Churchill’s Folly, How
Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq ) ( Musings On Iraq book review
Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-America
Polls suggest comic is poised to secure landslide victory against Ukraine's incumbent leader in presidential runoff.
Attorneys
for the owner and manager of a Florida day spa, where New England
Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other men were allegedly caught on
camera receiving sexual favors are claiming either prosecutors or police
are trying to profit from the unauthorized sale of the footage "to the
highest bidder," according to newly filed court documents. "I am deeply
disturbed that someone in the Palm Beach
ASU
researcher part of Carnegie Institution for Science-led team; discovery
could shed light on early solar system's chemistry A tiny piece of the
building blocks from which comets formed has been discovered inside a
primitive meteorite. The discovery by a Carnegie Institution for
Science-led team, including a researcher now at Arizona State
University, was published April 15 in Nature Astronomy.
Today's
Western cultural landscape seems to give us all the wrong messages of
what happiness is, and how one should go about attaining it; we're
programmed for unhappiness and seemingly trapped in ways of thinking and
being that only make for more unhappiness! On this week's MindMatters
we discuss John F. Schumaker's book In Search of Happiness -
Understanding An Endangered State of Mind and delve
New
party says it has received more than 1,000 applications to stand in
Europe elections from defectors from other parties The anti-Brexit party
Change UK will this week unveil its list of 70 candidates for next
month’s European elections after receiving more than 1,000 applications
from former Labour, Tory, Liberal and Green party activists. The party’s
interim leader, the former Tory MP Heidi Al
The
Grammy-winning country star talks about Nashville, being inspired by
her horse and microdosing with LSD Earlier this month at the Academy of
Country Music awards, there was minor controversy when the host,
Nashville grande dame Reba McEntire, performed a new song and everyone
got to their feet apart from Kacey Musgraves . Someone tweeted: “Have a
little respect… at least for someone who paved
The controversial thinkers debated happiness, capitalism and Marxism in
Toronto. It was billed as a meeting of titans – and that it was not.
But it did reveal one telling commonality The event was billed as “the
debate of the century”, “The Rumble in the Realm of the Mind”, and it
did have the feel of a heavyweight boxing match: Jordan Peterson, local
boy, against the slapdash Slovenian Slavoj Ži
Likely election of comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy propelled by
anti-establishment vote ‘There’s a 90% chance he’ll be a disaster, but
I’m going to vote for him anyway,” said Alyona Sych, a 36-year-old
nurse, strolling through Kyiv in the spring sunshine and explaining why
she plans to vote for an untested actor and comedian in Ukraine’s
presidential election on Sunday. “I know 100% that the current
What's your take on Assange? Have you heard of Unit 731? And just who
is Percy Corbett, anyway? Get James' answer to these and other important
questions in this edition of Questions For Corbett.
West Coast hip-hop legends Cypress Hill finally made it to the
Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday — two days too early, in the minds of
some. The plaque was formally presented on Thursday, April 18, 2019.
But everyone knows that Cypress Hill is synonymous with marijuana.
Couldn't whoever constructed the plaque have waited two days to present
it on 4/20, the biggest marijuana holiday of the year?
Science
fiction medicine doesn't get much better than what's offered onboard
Star Trek's USS Enterprise. Beamed up to the ship with a gaping phaser
wound, the patient is sent to sickbay, where "Bones" McCoy directs a
handheld device emitting a ray of light onto the injury. It shrinks and
vanishes in seconds, leaving not even the trace of a scar. It may not
work so fast or so perfectly, but the tec
The first of next month’s two electoral challenges for the Tories While
everybody seems to be getting excited about the May 23rd Euro elections
there has been little focus on the big hurdle that the Tories have to
surmount three weeks before that. These are the local elections in
England which cover almost all of the country excluding London and just
one or two counties. Each year during a four y
“How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the
Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all
our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit
consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who
sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition
in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” - Shiva ◆ Updated
April 20, 2019: Fukushima Equals 19,143.6 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More
Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad: The 3
melted-through cores of the destroyed reactors, now melted together into
a single "corium" totaling over 600 tons , at Fukushima daily release
the radioactive equivalent of 6.45 Hiroshima bombs direc
Having a cheeky Cuban-cocktail-in-a-can on a London Overground train on
a hot afternoon isn't much of crime, even if it actually is a crime and
the person committing it is the country's Shadow Home Secretary. In my
book, it's on a par with doing 72 mph on the motorway (something, of
course, I don't actually do). Some nice person, however, took a photo of
Diane Abbott lost in though whilst looking
Partygoers threw items at officers as they tried to break up gathering
in Levenshulme Police officers were attacked as they tried to eject
people from a house party in Manchester. Up to 200 people who had
gathered at a rented “holiday property” in Levenshulme were said to have
terrified neighbours who reported drunken behaviour and excess noise. A
number of the partygoers became violent when offi
Witnesses say people are being forced onto police buses and taken to an immigration centre.
Ken Jennings rose to fame after an unprecedented run on Jeopardy 15
years ago: Over the course of 74 episodes, he won a total of roughly
$2.5 million . Recently, a contestant named James Holzhauer has been
working toward Jennings’s record at an astonishing pace. After the
Friday-evening broadcast of the quiz program, Holzhauer had won about
$850,000 over just 12 episodes . If he keeps up that rat
For the past five bonkers seasons, Camren Bicondova and her incredible
hair have played Selina Kyle on Gotham . But for the last episode,
airing next week, she’s being replaced. Read more...
A $399 Samsung TV , a huge sale on Anker charging products , a keyboard
that charges itself with light , and several CBD and vaping deals for
4/20 lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web. Read more...
Sickness and later retirement endanger health, says teacher who had
triple heart bypass Teachers in the UK run the risk of “dying in their
classrooms” if they are forced to work through serious illnesses, a
teaching union conference has been told after a member revealed dramatic
evidence. Neil Jeffrey, a secondary school teacher, opened his shirt to
show the scars left by a triple heart bypass op
Money, wealth & even work is specific to each culture, understanding other folk's rules is key in a global economy
It's
much less scientific - and more prone to gratuitous procedures - than
you may think. In the early 2000s Terry Mitchell's dentist retired. For a
while, Mitchell, an electrician in his 50s, stopped seeking dental care
altogether. But when one of his wisdom teeth began to ache, he started
looking for someone new. An acquaintance recommended John Roger Lund,
whose practice was a convenient 10-min
Fruits of US-NATO Regime Change By Tony Cartalucci (Reprinted in part
from an article here ) The ongoing Libyan conflict - flush with weapons
pouring in from foreign sponsors - has also fueled regional terrorism
impacting neighboring Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, and Chad, as far
west as Mali and Nigeria, and southeast as far as Kenya. The war has
been a boon for US Africa Command (AFRICOM) whi
Most
of the time, when children act out by kicking and screaming expletives,
it is because they do not understand what they are going through, and
cannot find a better way to release their feelings. When a child acts
out, know that it is most likely because they are struggling to
understand complex emotions that they are feeling for the first time in
their lives. Schools in England have started to
The fluctuating weather of an Australian autumn is showing its extremes.
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that charges itself with light , and several CBD and vaping deals for
4/20 lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web. Read more...
Science-themed board games are an increasingly popular way to learn
about everything from atom building to colonising space When Elizabeth
Hargrave created a board game inspired by her love of birdwatching, she
had no expectation it would become a tabletop phenomenon. Yet Wingspan
sold out within a week of its release in January, earned glowing reviews
and was the subject of a New York Times arti
Paolo Sorrentino gets uncomfortably close to his subject in this
necessarily brash and tawdry biopic of the Italian media tycoon It’s
debatable whether it would be possible to make a film about a politician
as tawdry, brash and insincere as former Italian prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi without that film sharing at least some of those
characteristics. And director Paolo Sorrentino , drawn yet ag
Previously
unseen correspondence between the two comedians and musician Alan Clare
is to be sold at auction They were never known for their sense of
decorum and linguistic restraint, but a cache of previously unpublished
letters by Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers proves – if there were ever
any doubt – their humour was not for the fainthearted. The comic
geniuses, who along with Harry Secombe and
Researchers calculated that young adults save £8,000 a year by living
at home – and worked out how much they should pay for board each month
The ‘boomerang’ generation still living with their parents Young adults
should be paying at least £100 a month to their parents for living at
home, according to a major academic study into the costs of the
“boomerang” generation. The main additional cost is
A
senior North Korean official dismissed President Trump’s national
security adviser, John Bolton, as “dim-sighted” after he demanded more
evidence of willingness to give up nuclear weapons.
The Republican senator broke with his party, criticizing the Trump
administration after reading the 448-page report. Utah Republican
Senator Mitt Romney offered harsh criticism of the Trump administration
after reading the recently released redacted version of special counsel
Robert Mueller’s report on Russian involvement in the 2016 election,
saying he was “sickened” by the “dishonesty and misdi
Companies
are racing to develop real chicken, fish, and beef that don't require
killing animals. Here's what's standing in their way. The thought I had
when the $100 chicken nugget hit my expectant tongue was the one cartoon
villains have when they entrap a foreign critter and roast him over a
spit: It tastes like chicken. That's because it was chicken-albeit
chicken that had never laid an egg, sp
Brands sometimes go too hard during Pride season. Every once in a
while, however, they get it right. The year 2019 has already brought us
one *actually good* example. Converse recently introduced its LGBTQ
Pride sneaker line , which now includes sneakers modeled after the
Transgender Pride flag . This is the first time Converse has ever had a
trans-specific sneaker. SEE ALSO: Mapping state-by-sta
Joe,
15, was an A-grade pupil. Now he’s being groomed, brutalised and
terrified by a county lines gang. One family member tells their
powerful, traumatic story I have known Joe as a part of our extended
family since he was born 15 years ago. Quieter than his outgoing big
sister, he has been the soft, soulful, sometimes unknowable presence in
her exuberant shadow. Lately, though, I am kept awake at
Paris residents looked on in horror as their beloved ‘lady’ went up in
flames. Now a new battle begins: how best to rebuild her for the
centuries ahead Most of us will always remember the moment on 15 April
when we heard that Notre Dame was on fire . I was in my kitchen, when
something unusual caught the corner of my eye. I turned towards the
window to see huge clouds of smoke billowing in the sp
Those
of us wishing for an Antiques Roadshow find of our own were heartened
by the discovery of two unknown poems I suspect that those of us of a
mildly hoarder-ish persuasion all secretly believe that we’re going to
have an Antiques Roadshow moment, when something we’ve held on to, that
isn’t one of several hundred branded tote bags, turns out to have been
truly worth keeping. Bookish types have
A bipartisan group of lawmakers across the House and the Senate
introduced a bill that would allow people in prison access to federal
Pell grants to pay for college. (Image credit: LA Johnson/NPR)
What can you do when you fear someone you know may be considering
suicide? It can feel daunting, but suicide prevention experts say we all
can help someone at risk by reaching out and showing we care. (Image
credit: Maria Fabrizio for NPR)
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Though
the warm March and sustained sunshine tricked some into thinking winter
was over for good, Alaska pulled its favorite prank of bringing another
dump of snow in mid-April. The snow is causing road conditions to be
similar to those of January and December, when just one week ago the
roads, and the lawns, were bone dry.
Plus a Martian crater, a nebula in transition, and a glorious cluster.
Kalen reacts to Weekend 1 fashion at Coachella. Find out what he
thought worked... and what didn’t work out in the desert. #OMKalen
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Possessing cannabis is apparently a sign that an applicant for citizenship “may lack good moral character.”
Public
school teachers in Los Angeles, California went on strike last month to
demand better conditions for students in their schools. Not only were
teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District asking for a pay
increase but also demanded smaller class sizes, more counselors, more
librarians and a full-time nurse in every school.1 Such stories are
becoming all too common in the media, partic
A
white Easter? Dozens are hiking up to Bluff Knoll this long weekend to
catch a glimpse of the extremely rare April snowfall. Locals couldn't
have anticipated this: Snowboarding in Western Australia in April? The
state's southwest had more than a Good Friday, with residents waking up
to record snowfall. As predicted in news.com.au's weekend weather
forecast, the Stirling Ranges have seen snow jus
The
liberal world order, which lasted from the end of World War 2 until
today, is rapidly collapsing. The center of gravity is shifting from
west to east where China and India are experiencing explosive growth and
where a revitalized Russia has restored its former stature as a
credible global superpower. These developments, coupled with America's
imperial overreach and chronic economic stagnation,
A
relentless series of migrant caravans in recent months has taxed local
resources and the patience of residents who are turning their ire on the
president.
Marcus
Hutchins, a British security researcher credited with halting a huge
outbreak of ransom software in 2017, accepted United States charges over
previous activity.
Revenge might not be exactly the right word, given the European
dimension of Manchester City’s attempted quadruple was probably the one
that mattered most to them, but Pep Guardiola will have been satisfied
with the reaction his players showed after the draining events of
Wednesday evening in the Champions League. The City manager had
confessed he had no idea how such a cruel late setback might a
The 24-year-old half-back waited a long time to play in Super League
but a try-scoring debut shows his future is full of promise Patience is
not an attribute that often springs to mind when thinking of rugby
league players but it is a trait Cory Aston possesses in abundance. To
suggest the 24-year-old has had to bide his time waiting for an
opportunity in Super League would be an understatement;
“Constitutions cannot protect you against madmen. The people on the scene at the time have to do that"
Gadgets Good headphones make the best adventure buddies. Active
noise-cancelling headphones make for the best travel buddy. Here's how
to choose the right pair for your journey.
Doug Ford is slashing funding wherever he can find it. He just
announced that he is cutting funding for the Ontario Library Service
Budget by 50%. Edward Keenan writes : While this cut was unexpected and
unheralded — I cannot recall any campaign promises pledging to fight Big
Book or stick it to those fat-cat librarians — it’s hard to say it’s
exactly surprising, coming from this premier. Doug Fo
Woman claims she and family lost jobs after she rejected Ranjan Gogoi’s
advances The chief justice of India’s supreme court, Ranjan Gogoi, has
denied allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances towards a
junior court assistant working from his home and that she was
subsequently victimised. “This is unbelievable,” India’s most powerful
judge told a special hearing of the court, which he call
Prosecutor launches money laundering probe against al-Bashir after finding suitcases of money at his home, says Reuters.
Several mass school shootings since have led to calls to change gun laws in the US.
Booker, Tlaib and Swalwell received threatening calls Minnesota
representative Omar is target of Trump criticism A Florida man has been
arrested for threatening the prominent Democrats Cory Booker, Rashida
Tlaib and Eric Swalwell. Related: Facebook allowed violent posts by man
charged with Ilhan Omar death threat Continue reading...
The Pussy Riot co-founder, 29, on talking politics with her daughter,
how prison changed her and her capitalist phase I went through a
capitalist phase because of my mother. In the 90s, when our economy
collapsed, we lost everything. My mum started to do all of these crazy
businesses. She was selling cosmetics and I would attend seminars on how
to sell your product even though you know they’re us
Business leaders in north of England issue warning to party leadership
hopefuls Tory leadership contenders have been warned that opposing the
HS2 line will destroy the party’s prospects in key seats for decades,
amid concerns that the project will be targeted in the race to replace
Theresa May . Senior figures inside Whitehall, industry and across local
government are worried that leading candida
As
his own novel about a Soviet-occupied London is published, Gareth Rubin
asks whether writers are changing the past to help us feel better about
the present On the morning of 24 June 2016, as Britain was waking up to
the mind-bending news that the country had voted to leave the European
Union, my literary agent began sending copies of my novel to prospective
publishers. “Do you feel like you’ve
Amphibians
are under attack from multiple pathogens, say experts Frogs,
salamanders, and toads across the world are now under attack from a
widening range of interacting pathogens that threaten to devastate
global amphibian populations. That is the stark warning of leading
zoological experts who will gather this week in London in a bid to
establish an emergency plan to save these endangered creatu
Ukraine's
incumbent president Petro Poroshenko and hard-hitting frontrunner
Volodymyr Zelensky faced off in a much-hyped big stadium debate,
exchanging harsh accusations yet revealing little of their plans for the
country. It was promoted as the most spectacular political show in
Ukrainian history, but the debate only attracted 22,000 people at the
Olympiyskiy stadium in Kiev on Friday, despite a
Janny Scott, a former New York Times reporter, has staked her claim to
an unusual beat: exploring secret family legacies. She roamed widely in
pursuit of “the untold story of Barack Obama’s mother,” the subtitle of A
Singular Woman , about Stanley Ann Dunham. This time, Scott’s terrain
is her own family’s 800-acre estate, Ardrossan—a multigenerational
compound outside Philadelphia that “had survi
I
am attempting to pen this article based on financial crimes by
politicians. It is a serious offense which is unsafe for the economic
balance. […]
Michael
Luo highlights reporting and writing published in the past week by The
New Yorker that were not about Donald Trump or the Mueller report,
including reports on the N.R.A., imprisoned ISIS members, and
appropriation in fiction.
The heavily fortified no man's land separating North and South Korea,
largely untouched by humans, has become an ecological niche for the
region's flora and fauna, including endangered species. (Image credit:
Claire Harbage/NPR)
And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the
internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best
the web has to offer for the week of April 14, 2019. At Electric Lit,
Theodore McCombs sits down with Her Body and Other Parties author Carmen
Maria Machado for a perfectly normal intervi
Some well-informed partial answers.
Guest
essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; In climate science, when
your model predictions are wrong, you wait for the world to correct
itself. New climate models predict a warming surgeBy Paul VoosenApr. 16,
2019 , 3:55 PM For nearly 40 years, the massive computer models used to
simulate global climate have delivered a…
An
Ohio prison staff acted with callous indifference as a white
supremacist attacked four black inmates handcuffed to a table, according
to a federal lawsuit filed earlier this month in the Southern District
of Ohio. Two correctional officers, identified only by their surnames,
Faye and Dalton, laughed as the four black inmates were brutally stabbed
in June 2017, the suit says. The incident was ca
The
Broward County Sheriff's Office is investigating cellphone videos that
show deputies pepper-spraying and tackling teenagers Thursday afternoon
outside of a McDonald's in Tamarac. A witness told NBC 6 that a large
crowd of students from J.P. Taravella High School had formed outside of
the restaurant before 3 p.m. after rumors that a fight was going to
happen. The fight never occurred, but the w
Manager has no illusions about her team’s task in Champions League
semi-final but looks to Tottenham’s men, and Arsenal’s quadruple-winning
women’s side, for inspiration “It was like we were climbing against
gravity in that game and I was just: ‘Put the fire out. Put the fire
out. Put the fire out’,” says the Chelsea manager, Emma Hayes. “I got to
the end of the game and thought: ‘I put the fire
Live scoreboard! Follow the day’s goals and games in Europe Foden
strikes as Manchester City gain revenge against Spurs And feel free to
email Ben or tweet him @benfisherj 3.00pm BST And we’re under way around
the grounds. 2.56pm BST A last-minute tweak to the Bournemouth lineup:
Adam Smith has been forced to withdraw through injury, with Junior
Stanislas taking his place at right-back. The highl
Cressida Dick calls on demonstrators to move to official site at Marble
Arch Battle of Waterloo Bridge: a week of protest The head of the
Metropolitan police, Cressida Dick, has urged Extinction Rebellion
activists to protest lawfully as officers continued a large-scale
operation to clear environmental campaigners from sites at Oxford Circus
and Waterloo Bridge in central London. With more than 1
More horror films should have families like theirs in the future.
The Mueller report, Facebook goofs, and more of the week's top security news.
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It's im-paws-ible not to smile at these videos! #TheEllenShow #Ellen
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First ever high-speed video of interaction contains big surprises -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Russia plans to move the headquarters of its development bank to Budapest, raising anxiety levels in European capitals.
These
three men spent decades in prison as a result of statistical
exaggerations. They were among 150 men and women released from prison
after their wrongful convictions were overturned in 2018.
A
pair of 14-year-old Florida middle school girls are facing felony
charges for conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder after being
arrested this week in what authorities described as a plot to kidnap and
kill 9 people. Court records reviewed by ABC News Tampa affiliate WFTS
indicate that a teacher told police she observed the girls acting
"hysterical" while searching for a folder at school, an
Redactions can't conceal that Russians offered to help Trump win the election. He accepted. That's collusion
Christina
Hoff Sommers's recent appearance at Skidmore College was punctuated by a
fiery question and answer session where she engaged in back-and-forth
discussions with several students who challenged points she'd made
concerning campus activism and sexual assault. A crowd of roughly 60
students and faculty packed the auditorium to watch Sommers's 90-minute
long appearance Monday, hosted by the C
You
may give them little thought beyond when to trim them or which nail
color to apply. But the humble nail laid the groundwork for our
evolution into the humans we are today.
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Players had taken part in 24-hour social media boycott • PFA: ‘Response
from social networks again unacceptable’ Players who took part in the
Enough campaign for a 24-hour social media boycott in protest at online
racial abuse received further insults in response to their posts, the
Professional Footballers’ Association has reported. The union intended
to display a show of solidarity with member
Amid miles of mountain and marshy tundra, residents share what life is like in their remote Alaska Native village.
The
protests that began in London on Monday are spreading, aiming their
actions at multinational companies with government links.
We debate the solutions with the founder of the Sunrise Movement, CEO of Christian Aid and a leading climate scientist.
Google
has blocked Press TV and Hispan TV's access to their official accounts
on the technology company's platforms, including YouTube and Gmail,
without prior notice, citing "violation of policies". "Your Google
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Oxford
don champions children’s books as figures show that sales to adults are
soaring By day, she researches the poetry of John Donne as a fellow of
All Souls College, Oxford. But in the evening, when Dr Katherine Rundell
wants a bit of comfort, she reads Paddington. “As an adult, the thing I
love about Paddington is that the structure Michael Bond has built into
his books is one of hope. Things
Mueller’s report essentially accuses Trump of witness tampering – one
of the offences Republicans impeached Clinton on. Here’s how they
explained their votes Robert Mueller’s report effectively accused Donald
Trump of obstructing justice by witness tampering, one of the offences
that led Republicans to impeach Bill Clinton 20 years ago. Mueller’s
team found Trump repeatedly made efforts to “encou
Netflix’s ongoing (and laudable) efforts to revive romantic-comedy
films have moved so quickly that the company is now plowing through
every subgenre available. There was Set It Up , an endlessly rewatchable
workplace meet-cute flick; there was To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before ,
a pitch-perfect high-school throwback. Now, with Someone Great , the
moviemaking debut of Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (wh
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Some say the $1 billion donated to the Paris cathedral should’ve been
directed elsewhere. As more than $1 billion has rolled in to repair the
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a debate is raging over whether the glut
of donations would have been better spent on other causes. People on
social media asked why similar support was not going to Native American
sacred lands destroyed in fracking and devel
Prudie’s column for April 20.
Father Charles Kriel and mother Katharina Viken were returning to UK
from holiday in Florida A baby born in the UK to two parents who have
indefinite leave to remain in Britain has been denied the right to live
in the country in what a human rights lawyer has described as a
potentially unlawful move. Dr Charles Kriel, a US national and special
adviser to a parliamentary select committee, said he
To
escape from under that cumulus cloud of candy-colored chocolate, browse
the best Easter tech deals on the Echo Dot, iPad, Garmin Fenix, and
more.
The most recent poll of South Carolina primary voters-- actually a
registered voters poll by Emerson -- was about a month and a half ago.
South Carolina is different from the states we usually look at. There
Trump's approval rating is relatively high-- 50% and just 44%
disapproving. And in head to head match-ups, he would beat any
Democratic nominee. Trump would beat Biden 52-48%. He'd beat Berni
Washington state representative Matt Shea exchanged messages with
far-right figures, chat records obtained by the Guardian reveal A
Washington state Republican politician took part in private discussions
with rightwing figures about carrying out surveillance, “psyops” and
even violent attacks on perceived political enemies, according to chat
records obtained by the Guardian. State representative
These days, anybody with an internet connection can be a publisher. That doesn't make everybody a journalist.
This light works as a night light and sanitization device
What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future
look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated by Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Set a couple of
decades from now, the film is a flat-out rejection of the idea that a
dystopian future is a forgone conclusion. Instead, it offers a thought
experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the clima
Dozens
of women and children, the relatives of Kosovo jihadists in Syria, and
four suspected fighters were repatriated plane on Saturday under heavy
security.
Seagram
liquor heiress Clare Bronfman pleaded guilty on Friday to harboring an
illegal immigrant and enabling credit card fraud as part of an alleged
sex cult based in upstate New York. Bronfman, 40, entered her plea to
the two criminal counts before U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in
federal court in Brooklyn, New York. She is one of several people
charged in connection with a secretive org
Only small boats allowed into extended 15-nautical mile fishing zone, while harassment by Israeli gunboats continues.
Already
under stress from a number of 'terror' attacks and a two-year-long
state of emergency, officers face long working hours, and struggle to
get paid for overtime.
Have you been holding out on getting an Apple iPad Pro ? Lucky for you,
Amazon has dropped the price of it by another $74, saving you 15% off
the listed price, making this an excellent Mother's Day gift. Like most
older generation parents, technophobe is a thing and what makes Apple
products so great, is that it's so clean and straightforward to use,
even a toddler will understand it. Plus with a
Other
than the seizures, a dozen incidents documented in the past 15 months
involved either trained terrorists or over-ground workers (OGWs) of
terror groups lobbing grenades at patrol parties, bunkers, vehicles or
camps of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and other paramilitary
forces, Jammu and Kashmir Police, and the army. Pakistan is supplying
Chinese-made grenades and sophisticated amm
Up to 5,500 churches across France need urgent repairs yet have no
funds. Macron must be wary of inciting gilets jaunes further over Notre
Dame In La-Roche-sur-Yon – a town in western France founded by Napoleon
Bonaparte – locals can only dream of raising enough money to restore
their most treasured landmark. The church of Saint Louis built in 1817
to honour the emperor needs €7m (£6.1m) to save
Nearly 40% of the 448 pages have parts blacked out but that content –
including remarks by Trump – is not a total mystery The Mueller report
contains tantalising details of Trump campaign dealings with Russia and
of the president’s possible attempts to obstruct justice. But much of it
is blacked out. Nearly 40% of the pages in the document contain at
least one redaction, totalling nearly 1,000 in
Technicians
have assembled the capsule that will keep NASA's Mars 2020 rover secure
for its wild ride to the Red Planet's surface.
An
independent report concluded that NASA has no chance of sending humans
to Mars by 2033, with the earliest such a mission could be flown being
the late 2030s.
With a pivot to TV projects.
The
international team responsible for the first-ever image of a black
hole's shadow already has plans to take a better, more detailed image.
Three
hives containing a population of over 180,000 bees were left unscathed
by this week's devastating fire. Despite the roof of the historic
Parisia...
Scottish lock is ready for the Champions Cup semi-final between the
competition’s only four-times winners In a battle between the two most
successful sides in Champions Cup history Toulouse must not be too
loose. French rugby’s aristocrats have relocated their joie de vivre
this season but sometimes they get carried away. Last weekend offered an
example. They eventually sealed their place in the
The
system Harry Ogden invented on Newmarket Heath in the 1790s has endured
but the industry it spawned is eating itself The world’s first
bookmaker, so the story goes, was a man called Harry Ogden. One
afternoon in the early 1790s, when organised thoroughbred racing was
already almost a century old, Ogden went to Newmarket races and did
something no one in the business of taking bets had ever don
The Birmingham-born poet recalls growing up near Tolkien’s woods,
playing cricket at Edgbaston and listening to the Beatles on cassette To
get me into the mood to write this, I’m listening to “Mr Blue Sky” by
Electric Light Orchestra . On repeat. “Sun is shining in the sky / There
ain’t a cloud in sight.” I must associate that song with Moseley in
Birmingham, perhaps because summers were so brigh
Next
month’s EU poll is almost impossible to call as party loyalties crumble
and voters look left, right and beyond The likelihood that Ukraine will
elect a comedian as president this weekend is no laughing matter for
serious students of European politics fretting over the outcome of next
month’s EU parliamentary elections. The expected victory of Volodymyr
Zelenskiy , a policy-free parvenu who le
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the efforts of the firefighters who
rushed into the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris when it caught fire
earlier this week. (Image credit: Christophe Petit Tesson/AP)
On Easter, people will gather to pray in the cathedral, situated 600
feet underground in the Andean mining town of Zipaquirá. It was built in
the caverns and tunnels left behind by salt miners. (Image credit: Luis
Acosta/AFP/Getty Images)
Thousands of Massachusetts residents have been committed to treatment
for addiction against their will. Some families say locking up addicts
in prison isn't treatment. Others say it saves lives. (Image credit:
Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Our readers share ways to get your children to listen without raising
your voice — sometimes without saying a word. (Image credit: Malaka
Gharib/NPR)
Assessing the breakout star of the Mueller report.
Jay
Itzkowitz humorously imagines a photographer who works exclusively on
the iPhone and exhibits his work on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
Well, a tunnel that passes underneath it, to be more specific. But conservationists have reservations.
Met Office says temperatures might reach 27C on Monday Britain is set
for a sunny Easter bank holiday weekend, with temperatures potentially
breaking national records. Temperatures reached 25C (77F) on Good Friday
and were forcecast to hit 27C on Monday. Continue reading...
Fitbit Inspire HR $99.95 View Product The Good Impressive feature
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integration works seamlessly The Bad Serious lack of extra features •
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bit generous at times The Bottom Line It's easily the best value in
Fitbit's product line, but don't expect a lot of bells a
Women
married to foreigners are not allowed to pass on citizenship, rights
campaigners want the decades-old nationality law to be reformed.
Suggestions
that Notre Dame Cathedral be reimagined following Monday's fire,
complete with modern architecture and materials, have been met with
outrage across France and around the world. "Let's stop this madness: we
need to have absolute respect for French heritage," Jordan Bardella,
another member of the right-wing party, said to LCI channel. "Modern art
makes me nostalgic for the arts of the p
Moments from the lives of others fill his walls. But what is life like
behind the lens in his New York apartment? Scott Schuman doesn’t always
ask if he can take someone’s picture. If a great shot presents itself – a
tender moment he captured last month between an older man and what
appears to be his granddaughter, say, or a stylish woman dashing across a
cobbled square – he will take a quick sna
In the aftermath of its second season, it’s time to reassess Phoebe
Waller-Bridge and her champagne receptions Look, don’t get me wrong,
some of my best friends are posh girls. I’ve got drunk with posh girls
and worked side-by-side with posh girls, so when I say Fleabag (both
series available on BBC iPlayer) is for posh girls, that isn’t a
criticism; Fleabag is a work of undeniable genius. But it
Bernie on Fox in Bethlehem: It sounded like a contradiction, but captured something essential in America
This ought to be interesting. A state district judge on Thursday
ordered the city, the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association and
the Houston Police Officers’ Union to enter into mediation as they seek
to resolve lingering differences over the implementation of Proposition
B, the measure granting firefighters the same pay as police of
corresponding rank and seniority. Judge Tanya Garrison
Premier League updates from the 12.30pm BST kick-off Barney Ronay:
Spurs should not follow Arsenal’s path Email Barry or tweet
@bglendenning with your thoughts 12.42pm BST 8 min: There are a few
tasty challenges flying in around the pitch. Oleksandr Zinchenko is
lucky to have avoided a booking and Phil Foden has just escaped a
caution for a very rash challenge. City are clearly fired up for this
Growing up mixed race in Ireland, I longed for sleek, straight locks,
and spent years having treatments that burned my scalp. That horrifies
me now I remember being 13 and sleeping over at a friend’s house. I use
the term “friend” loosely because, years later, I realised that most of
these girls were never really my friends. Making her bed in the morning,
my host reached down and plucked somethin
It's 4/20 baby!!! It's Saturday, you're lit, brain perfectly calibrated
to toasted, sparking your joy, blowing smoke rings so on point it feels
criminal not to share on your Instagram story. But something stops you
from posting. And it probably sounds like the voice of your D.A.R.E.
teacher yelling about how posting pictures of pot online can get you
arrested and ruin your career. "Even if you ju
A
former assistant said Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi subjected her to
unwanted touching, and that her family was singled out for retribution
after she rebuffed him.
We reveal how 10 years of US strategy on the continent have failed to make its countries safer.
Passover and Easter are religious holidays of gratitude—gratitude for
the release of the Jewish people from Egypt, gratitude by Christians for
the sacrifice of Jesus in redemption for humanity’s sins. The Trump
administration may have cynically calculated that releasing the Mueller
report on the eve of a double holiday might dampen interest, but the
timing seems oddly fitting, because the special
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report gave a damning overall portrait
of the president, and yet that portrait surprised no one. Because the
public has been treated to so much evidence of Donald Trump’s dishonesty
and hectic leadership, the shock has worn off. Finding out suddenly
that one’s president is crooked is jarring; finding out slowly is
numbing. Even Maggie Haberman of The New York Time
It was one of the most consequential days of his presidency, and Donald
Trump knew exactly where he wanted Americans getting their news.
“Attorney General William Barr’s Press Conference today at 9:30 AM ET,”
he wrote Thursday morning in a characteristically overcapitalized tweet.
“Watch on @FoxNews @OANN.” In some other, quainter era, the president
directing his fans to a pair of unabashedly par
William Carlos Williams is best remembered for his spare and evocative
poems: “So much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow,” and “I have
eaten / the plums / that were in / the icebox.” But in between nights
spent writing poetry, he devoted most of his time to working with
children as the chief of pediatrics at a New Jersey hospital. With this
poem, dedicated to his grandson, he blended the two
A colorful Peruvian plant dispenses its pollen according to a savvy, memory-based system, new research suggests.
Eric
Orlich and his wife Gioconda Rojas own two electric vehicles, which
they charge at home in the garage thanks to solar panels on their roof.
A
global team of experts next week will begin reviewing how the Boeing
737 Max's flight control system was approved by the U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration.
A
British computer security researcher once hailed as a "hero" for
helping stem a ransomware outbreak and later accused of creating malware
to attack the banking system said Friday he pleaded guilty to US
criminal charges.
From last week : The Texas Comptroller’s office said Tuesday it’s
reviewing the inclusion of Airbnb on a list of companies that boycott
Israel and are banned from doing business with the state after the
company announced a change to its policy for listings in the West Bank.
The home-sharing company said in a statement that it’s reversing a plan
announced this November to remove about 200 rental l
Since I mentioned there would be a re-vote , I figured you’d want to
know how it went. By a 6-5 margin, San Antonio’s City Council on
Thursday narrowly rejected a proposal from mayoral contender Greg
Brockhouse to revisit a controversial decision last month to remove
Chick-fil-A from an airport contract because of its “legacy of
anti-LGBTQ behavior.” Brockhouse forced the issue by using a procedu
Northern Irish police call for witnesses to attack which left
15-year-old in critical condition Police are calling for witnesses after
a 15-year-old girl was stabbed in the neck in Lurgan, leaving her in a
critical condition. The incident happened at about 9pm on Friday in the
Deans Walk area of the County Armagh town, police said. Continue
reading...
This tiny archipelago off Puglia was once a penal colony, but today its
clear waters, coves and quiet lanes offer a blissful escape The ferry
from Termoli noses its way towards two petite islands, slipping into a
serene Adriatic inlet. To the left, San Domino’s low limestone cliffs
rise, crowned by Aleppo pines. To the right, the Abbazia di Santa Maria a
Mare, an 11th-century abbey built by Bened
Is journalism at risk or is it personal? Plus, the Polish priest whose mini media empire packs a political punch.
Volodomyr
Zelensky is blessed with the talents that seem to count in politics
now: a flair for grabbing attention with little concern for the details.
It’s based on stoner logic, not science.
The wardens of Britain’s small islands talk about daily life with
little more than thousands of puffins for company. By Patrick Barkham .
Photographs by Alex Ingram After supper, while Eddie Stubbings was
washing up, huge flocks of puffins would come whirling past his kitchen
window. Later, when the sun had finally dipped into the ocean, the
Skomer night filled with the bizarre caterwauling of 35
If the Scuderia are unable to challenge Mercedes in Azerbaijan it is
difficult to see where they will be able to The Ferrari team principal,
Mattia Binotto, has been a picture of considered, affable and
approachable calm this season. Indeed, in that respect his leadership
has been a welcome breath of fresh air at the Scuderia . Come Formula
One’s next round in Azerbaijan, though, it would be unde
The musician probes big questions of love and faith on her new album
Walking into Rosie Lowe ’s south London flat – a converted workshop, no
less – is like stepping into a Kevin McCloud fantasy. On the hallway
ceiling hangs a pulley clothes dryer Lowe whittled, while the second
bedroom, complete with hidden pull-out bed, wasn’t part of the original
structure – Lowe erected the partition wall hers
In ‘power grab,’ White House says it must OK commission plans before new rules are even proposed
How Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown and what happens next in Sudan.
There
are fewer than 150 adult kakapo in New Zealand, but this year’s bumper
crop of almost 90 chicks renews hope that the bird can be saved from
extinction
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