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Nothing else in all of European political history can quite match the survival of the British party we call the Tories. The first self-styled Tories were the royalist cavaliers in the reign of Charles II. Who would have guessed that three-and-a-half centuries later this country would still be governed by something ...
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Unlike MoviePass, Sinemia also allows customers to buy their seats in advance so they don't risk showing up at the theater and not getting a ticket. With MoviePass, customers must purchase their tickets at the theater prior to a showing, which can often mean the inconvenience of sold-out shows or bad ...
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Today in jeepers: There's a speck of weapons-grade plutonium missing in Idaho. According to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) statement, 1 gram (0.04 ounces) of plutonium-239 — about the weight of a paper clip — disappeared from Idaho State University. It last turned up in the university's ...
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The Swedish Academy postpones the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy intends to decide on and announce the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 in parallel with the naming of the 2019 laureate. Seven times previously, the Swedish Academy has chosen to declare a "reserved prize": in 1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936 and 1949.
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A round up of some of the week's most significant corporate events and news stories. Cambridge Analytica shuts after Facebook data scandal. Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics group used by the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, has been in the centre of a political storm in recent months ...
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One of Britain's most wanted fugitives, Jamie Acourt, has been captured in Spain on suspicion of drug offences. Armed officers detained Mr Acourt after he left the Metropolitan Sagrada Familia Gym in Barcelona on Friday afternoon. The 41-year-old from south London is wanted by police investigating ...
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NEW ORLEANS -- The fear factor remained until the very end for Alvin Gentry. His memory is as long as Anthony Davis from head to toe, so like everyone else in the Smoothie King Center Friday night, the notion that a 20-point lead late in the fourth quarter against the Golden State Warriors was safe just ...
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The discovery of telomerase in 1984 earned a team of biologists the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine (SN: 10/24/09, p.14). Since then, scientists have pieced together connections between the enzyme's activity and cancer, aging and inherited disorders. But the development of therapies has suffered from ...
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The series has grown in total viewers since its premiere less than a month ago. The premiere on April 8 drew 423,000 viewers in Live+Same Day, while the fourth and most recent episode on April 29 drew 503,000. Sunday night's episode also delivered 892,000 total viewers with 386,000 in adults 25-54 ...
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Annulment of the accord could tip the balance of power in favor of hardliners looking to constrain the relatively moderate Rouhani's ability to open up to the West. While the spotlight is on Trump's eventual decision there will be a display of unity in Tehran, a senior Iranian official told Reuters, on condition ...
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The initiative is a bid to prevent some of the 17 million deaths caused every year by cardiovascular diseases, which have been linked to food containing saturated fats and trans-fats. Saturated fats are commonly found in butter, salmon, egg yolks and cows' milk. WHO wants adults and children to reduce ...
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The flag of the United Arab Emirates has been raised over public buildings in Yemen's Socotra, an island near Somalia's northeastern coast that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some locals see it as a power grab at the expense of their internationally recognised government led by President ...
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While rumors of the next generation of iPhones continue to proliferate, it was Apple's current lineup, including the $1,000 iPhone X, that captured most of the attention this week. On Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple earned nearly $150 billion in revenue and $34 billion in earnings for the ...
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But then I remembered Grace's theory, that art is trust, and it hit me: I am the greatest artist in the world. Perhaps who has ever lived. And CHRIS is my masterpiece. I've been making weird little sculptures for the last couple of years after seeing an album cover for Nitin Sawhney's Beyond Skin, which ...
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When I first began working in east Africa, in Uganda, right out of college, people – other correspondents, my subjects – were always surprised I was there to report, since I was the only black woman in the press corps who wasn't Ugandan. That's partly because foreign correspondence began as a ...
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The Mexican League has long been a place for former Major Leaguers looking to continue or refurbish their baseball careers. Every year, the 16-team league features a hearty handful of names that you might recognize from big league rosters at some point over the last decade or so. In honor of the ...
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North Korea says clocks in the country will be set forward by 30 minutes to realign with time in South Korea, a move described as "the first practical step" for national reconciliation and unity on the peninsula. The decision to adjust the time zone was approved by the North's Supreme People's Assembly, ...
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U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller's team is interested in information that leads to President Donald Trump's "impeachment or prosecution." Ellis questioned why it is Mueller's office that is prosecuting former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in a tax and ...
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Avocados Go Sweet, Not Savory, in Indonesia
I can still remember the first time someone asked if I wanted avocado on my sandwich. I'd been in Seattle barely a month, and I was still adjusting to driving on the wrong side of the road and all that. "Yet another cultural quirk!" I thought to myself. To clarify, avocados were not new to me. It was quite the ...
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