For instance, you could try, “I was just driving around listening to Edith Piaf and thinking of you. ” You could also try, “Have you ever dated someone more than 10 years younger than you?" Use straightforward textspeak that she’s more likely to understand. If she hasn’t been keeping up with popular text abbreviations, she might not get a message like “WYD. " Go ahead and text her the full, “What are you doing?...
About half of Americans say that the U.S. government carries a lot of blame for the growth of misinformation, though the belief varies between Democrats and Republicans. The survey found that 61 percent of Republicans believe the U.S. government bears a lot of the responsibility for the spread of misinformation, while 38 percent of Democrats say the same, AP reported. The two parties are more aligned when it comes to the role of social media companies in misinformation’s circulation, with 79 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Democrats responding that they believe such companies carry a great deal or quite a bit of the blame for misinformation....
Fast forward half a year, with millions of lost jobs and thousands of businesses gone bankrupt in the U.S. because of the novel coronavirus, the word slowdown is inadequate to describe the scale and speed of the economic collapse. And the pandemic could yet throw another grenade at the economy: A massive corporate debt explosion. The American economy has lived on debt for a long time. The ratio of the total debt of the government, businesses, and consumers relative to GDP has more than doubled since the 1980s....
Costa agent teases Milan move The Premier League champions are reported to be considering a £45 million bid to buy Insigne, who signed a new Napoli contract until 2022 in April. Insigne hit 18 league goals as Maurizio Sarri’s side finished third in Serie A and was also on target in Italy’s 5-0 demolition of Liechtenstein on Sunday. The 26-year-old’s representative Franco della Monica accepted there has been interest in his client but suggested Insigne would stay at Napoli, with a bid of £45m insufficient to secure his services....
At least inside the Beltway, Iraq is opening fissures in the solid bloc that is–or was–the Republican Party and its conservative base. Members in the House blasted their Republican colleagues for holding too many hearings on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, accusing them of undermining the war effort in a bid for publicity. Long-dormant GOP isolationists re-emerged, with the usual cicadas–Patrick Buchanan and columnist Robert Novak–joined by Donald Devine, vice chairman of the American Conservative Union....
By then, however, the two pioneering virologists were already thinking about future pandemics—and how they might get ahead of them. Graham and McLellan are part of a corps of researchers hoping to take the technology they used on COVID-19 vaccines and apply them to an even more futuristic creation: an arsenal of off-the-shelf premade vaccines that could be easily modified to attack new pathogens as they arise—a kind of “pan” or “universal” coronavirus vaccine capable of protecting against many different strains of the virus at the same time....
No moving parts: Ergonomic mouse can track on virtually any surface, even your lap. Light: Red LED shines on work surface Optical sensor: Sends 1,500 ‘snapshots’ of work surface per second to digital signal processor Digital signal processor: Translates the changes between the snapshots into on-screen pointer movements. Wheel: For easy scrolling Programmable side buttons: Can be remapped to handle program shortcuts and game functions. AUDIOA String of Musical Notes...
To most people, surrealism means Salvador Dali, who took what he saw in dreams and hallucinations and rendered it in an academic fashion. Miro, on the other hand, was the absolute best of the surrealists who actually plumbed the subconscious for the free play of shapes, colors and lines in their paintings. Miro’s style zips and twinkles across the canvas (or paper, or wood, or small rectangle of copper, as the case may be) with odd-looking but tantalizing human and animal creatures doing strange things in a benignly quirky cosmos....
As anger from homebuyers and investors continues to mount, Evergrande face challenges toward securing the cash it needs to make payments on its over $300 billion worth of debt. The company’s assets remain tied up in its existing properties, leaving it with insufficient funding to make its payments and to finish its current projects. Over the past several years, China’s economy has continued to boom, and Evergrande looked to capitalize on that by taking loan after loan to expand its size....
NEWSWEEK: Explain your group’s mission in Baghdad. Scott Kerr: We are there to be with Iraqi civilians, to tell their story, to be international eyes and ears. Our teams go there to try to prevent war crimes from happening, by physically putting ourselves in the way of violent acts…We are there to model nonviolence to our churches in America and to our president. Is part of your mission, as a Christian organization, to convert Muslims to Christianity?...
“I didn’t think the Clintons should go to Washington tied in to McDougal,” Blair told NEWSWEEK last week. Blair, the general counsel for Tyson Foods, the giant Arkansas chicken firm, is one of Bill and Hillary’s best friends. He is the man who helped Hillary Clinton make a killing in the cattle-futures market in 1979. As he told NEWSWEEK, Blair had tried once before to help contain the McDougal problem....
““Pierre is a sort of naif,’’ says a former colleague at ABC News. Salinger retired in 1993. After a few years with a public-relations firm, he was at loose ends last September, when ““Prime Time Live’’ senior producer Ira Rosen proposed bringing him back to the network as a consultant on terrorism. But the ABC brass wouldn’t have him. ““Pierre is a loose cannon,’’ says a network reporter. In the early 1980s, Salinger claimed the Carter administration bungled opportunities to free the American hostages who were held in Iran....
Evans, who at 24 has won four Olympic gold medals and 45 national titles, greeted Brooke with some uncharacteristic gamesmanship of her own. “A lot of people ask, “Do you see Brooke being like you?’ " said Evans, who went to her first Olympics at 17. “I say, “No!’ By the time I was 15, I had three world records.” She concluded her remarks with a harsh view of Bennett: Brooke will be remembered – if at all – as a flash in the pan unless she swims much faster....
In Germany, embryos are protected under one of the strictest such laws in the world: the 1990 Embryonenschutzgesetz–embryo-protection law. It says that life begins at conception and that every fertilized egg has a right to survive. Since stem cells are harvested from human embryos only a few days old, producing them is illegal in Germany. Scientists have turned to outside firms for the cells they need. Franz, for instance, got his from WiCell, a Wisconsin-based company....
On a Wednesday evening in early April, more than 100 blacks and Jews gathered at the Union United Methodist Church in Boston for an unusual Passover celebration. With a moving mixture of Hebrew readings and black spirituals, they retold the story of the Jewish Exodus out of slavery in Egypt. It was a heartening example of racial togetherness–unless you listened closely to the words of the two featured speakers. The Rev....
The transplant costs about $150,000 and is typically covered by insurers. Conventional treatment, which includes blood transfusions and medication, runs roughly $30,000 to $50,000 a year and can only relieve symptoms. All patients in the five-year trial were under 16, and all received marrow transplants from matched sibling donors. Even then, two of the children died after the procedure. Sullivan says there could always be the chance of a fatal complication from a transplant, so prospective patients have to balance ““risk vs....
Thomas headed the EEOC; Barkley dunks on players regardless of race. Thomas adores grandmother who raised him; Barkley once said grandmother who raised him could outscore a teammate. Thomas accused of making off-color remarks; Barkley fined for ““trash-talking.'' Thomas bounced back from confirmation hearings; Barkley leads team in rebounds. Thomas’s hairline receding; Barkley shaves his head. On the other hand, Barkley makes tons more money and spends a lot less time on the bench....
