Posts

The United States cannot afford to be the world’s policeman. We’re broke and our economy is in deep trouble. But since we are the last remaining superpower, we do have responsibilities. Accordingly, our military must be drastically reformed and restructured for the 21st century. The Pentagon learned from the Vietnam War; most of the major mistakes there were not repeated here. Still, every aspect of this operation must be carefully examined, from the role of women in the service, to serving married couples, to the reserve units designated for combat round-outs....

MORE: Every MLB team’s worst regular-season memory, revisited As that video shows, something special happened when the [checks notes] 230-pound Fielder — wait, that’s it?! Just 230 pounds? If you say so, Baseball Reference — swiped second base against the Twins. So unexpected was the feat that the crowd gave him a standing ovation, to which Fielder responded with a good-natured tip of the helmet. After all, it was Fielder’s 1,097th career game....

Lighting is harder, says GE project manager Anil Duggal. The challenge has been in getting the wafer-thin materials (which still require a plug or battery) bright and long-lasting enough to be affordable. Konica and GE joined forces because each was working on a different OLED technology. GE’s uses conventional printing presses to print the OLED material on sheets of film and is cheaper to produce. Konica was perfecting a method in which OLED material is evaporated onto a sheet of film; the resulting lights are brighter and last longer....

Sure, the crimes were horrific, macabre, tragic. But insane? In a town where the average apartment now sells for $870,000, what could be more rational? Last week I viewed an $8 million apartment on Park Avenue. The real-estate broker had called me out of the blue, wanting to drum up publicity for her exclusive. “I want the building address and my name in the piece,” she told me in no uncertain terms....

We had finally arrived at Burning Man, a weeklong festival of fun and psychological meltdown that takes place every year on a desolate swath of dried lake bed deep in Nevada’s Black Rock desert. We had driven hundreds of miles to get here and, it felt, traveled just as many hours. Matt had come from San Francisco, I from New York. But now it was hard to escape an existential question....

I greatly appreciate your article on the new approach of using genetics to understand human origins (“Beyond Stones & Bones,” March 19). As an undergrad hoping to study evolution from a genetic perspective, I’m thrilled by all the questions this article answers and raises. The mystery of Homo Floresiensis, the “Hobbit” discovered in 2003, extends beyond the reconciliation of small skull size with high brain complexity. When and how they came to migrate out of Africa to the island of Flores adds to the enigma....

These symptoms may be due to a wide range of causes, but taken together they may point to one of the types of leukemia, a group of blood-related cancers that affect people of all ages. The symptoms may suggest that further evaluation is needed to arrive at any diagnosis. This article discusses leukemia symptoms in kids as well as adults. It presents some types of leukemia and how they are diagnosed, along with information about when it may be necessary to see a healthcare provider....

The current target? Television. Their new project is Joost (pronounced like “juiced”), and the point is “to change the way people consume TV,” says Swedish native Zennström, 41. This time around, it’s more lovefest than war. Joost wants to be safe as milk for studios, an ace sales tool for advertisers and a permanent addiction for anyone with a broadband connection. Let YouTube fight off Viacom in a copyright lawsuit; Joost has signed Viacom as a content partner....

Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and Eden Hazard are some of Chelsea’s best-ever signings in the Roman Abramovich era and securing Lewandowski would be a pivotal moment in an underwhelming transfer market so far. Chelsea in £100m Juve double deal Goal understands that Chelsea made first contact to Lewandowski’s representatives over a month ago and any deal would likely be a club record fee, eclipsing the £50 million paid for Fernando Torres by some distance....

Formula 1’s top two drivers ended their respective races on Lap 26 of the race; Hamilton exited the pits and had the inside track on Turn 1, but collided with Verstappen after the latter mounted the kerb. When the two cars touched rear wheels, it launched Verstappen onto Hamilton, with only the latter’s Halo cockpit protecting him from bodily harm. MORE: Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen involved in scary crash in F1 Italian Grand Prix...

The group debuted in 2010 and went on to amass fame and hysteria similar to that of English rock legends The Beatles. One Direction previously earned a Guinness World Record as the first group to debut at number one with their first four albums in the U.S. In 2016, the group went on an indefinite hiatus, allowing the members to find success as solo artists. In an interview with Steven Bartlett, for his The Diary of A CEO podcast, the “Strip That Down” hitmaker got candid on the cost of fame....

Newsweek: ““The Full Monty,’’ a funny movie about unemployed Britons who try to make money as male strippers, is your country’s most popular film. Does it say something about what you call ““new Britain’'? Blair: We were going to see it a couple of weeks ago but then for some reason or other we couldn’t. Yes, I think it does [say something about new Britain]. Not merely in the sense that it’s a highly successful film, and that says something about the state of the British film industry now....

But Cuomo’s long goodbye isn’t good news for the president. Cuomo was the ultimate Democratic Known Quantity. Privately, many of Bush’s shrewder strategists viewed Cuomo as an industrial-strength Michael Dukakis, destined to repeat the losing shibboleths of the past two Democratic presidential campaigns. “He was the easiest candidate for us to beat,” said Republican strategist Bill McInturff, “because he’s a caricature of a liberal Democrat.” The president’s demolition experts thought they knew where to place the plastic explosives on the Cuomo persona....

“Who does that?” family friend Stephanie Ramirez said to The Baltimore Sun. “People hold on for a long-lost relative. Who holds on for a football team?” PHOTOS: Notable sports deaths of 2014 | 2015 Akers did. Just before kickoff, Akers was comfortably cloaked in his Ravens hoodie and given his Ravens cap. Though he couldn’t watch the game, his wife and nephew described each play as he listened intently....

Now their legacy is on display for all to see, at the “Monument of the Unknown Government Employee,” which had its opening earlier this month in the rotunda of the Los Angeles City Hall. It is a modest piece of work, in keeping with the achievements of those it honors. The artist, John Marshall, chose materials such as cardboard tubing that express the concept of “no heavy lifting.” A question mark, laid out in carpet on the floor alongside, conveys the familiar bureaucratic spirit of who, me?...

Both of those events, per a release from Tampa Bay’s team site, encouraged attendees to wear their masks and social distance. In the case of the championship celebration at Raymond James Stadium, fans were required to go through standard screening, wear their face coverings and social distance — all prudent precautions, considering the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But several videos taken of the celebrations showed that fans not only didn’t social distance during the events, but also were allowed to drink directly from Lord Stanley’s Cup:...

On Saturday, he joined them. MORE: Sharks’ Joel Ward won’t kneel for anthem, hopes to ‘refocus’ conversation Brown, a native of Minnesota and one of about 30 black players in the NHL, became the league’s first to adopt the movement before Tampa’s second game of the 2017-18 season, against the Panthers. As the “Star-Spangled Banner” played inside BB&T Center, Brown, standing on the bench with his teammates, extended his right fist into the air, a form of silent protest he deems as a middle ground for critics who argue kneeling for the anthem disrespects the American flag or members of the military....

How do they ever get the evil T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a blob of gleaming liquid chrome, to take on so many different forms, including any human it touches? How about when Schwarzenegger blasts the cyborg full of holes–in one scene even slicing its head in two, only to see it fuse back together? And how about when the T-1000 fluidly emerges from a hospital tile floor? Well, don’t ask the director-producer-writer behind the $94 million movie....

Tony Clark, the players union chief and himself a designated hitter 101 times during his career, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday the “topic has come up, independent of us bringing it up.” This is the result of Major League Baseball’s move to two 15-team leagues, necessitating interleague play every day throughout the season, meaning that come September, some contenders are playing games under the other league’s rules....

Authorities took Lil Baby as well as his bodyguard into custody and fined him for having marijuana in his car before releasing him Friday, the city prosecutor’s office said. Harden was frisked but not arrested with Lil Baby, the AP said. Lance Avraham Pena, a student who was in the area at the time, said that the language barrier between the police, Lil Baby and Harden seemed to worsen an already tense situation....