After watching a performance of the Shaw Festival’s “Brigadoon,” the streets of this magical town on Lake Ontario might seem like a real-life version of the Scottish village depicted in the Lerner and Loewe musical. On a recent evening, the place felt frozen in time, with horse-drawn carriages rolling down a main street lined with […]
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Storm clouds forced SpaceX to postpone its Wednesday launch of a capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station. The private firm only had a split second window to launch its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon capsule. Another launch opportunity is Thursday at 6:01 p.m. ET. The capsule contains about 5,000 pounds of supplies
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When LaTroya Pina first learned to swim, she couldn’t have known she’d one day compete at the Olympics with her siblings. Of course, she dreamed of it. As an 11-year-old at Boys and Girls Club nationals she won two gold medals and promptly stated her goal was to become an Olympian. Her dad, who had
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Ms. Edelson wrote software to get around some problems, such as “infinite loops” — that is, when the library gets stuck returning the same results over and over again. Many of her other fixes were jury-rigged bits of code to handle specific technical problems, she said. Extracting all the data from the library, she said,
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World shares are mostly higher as investors watch for policy moves by the European Central Bank. The gains follow record high closes for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq overnight. South Korea’s Kospi declined, however, after rival North Korea launched two short range missiles into the sea. The missiles fired early Thursday were the first weapons
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees inevitably became the main topic of conversation among late-night television comedians on Wednesday. Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon each delivered their own comic takes on the hearings in which Mueller said his report into Russian interference
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Image copyright Getty Images O2 has announced it plans to turn on its 5G mobile network in October. It intends to launch the next-generation service in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Slough and Leeds and then expand to a total of 50 towns and cities by summer 2020. It will be the last of the UK’s
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MINNEAPOLIS — Look up when you enter Birchbark Books & Native Arts and you’ll spot a handcrafted canoe hanging above the table of current and favorite books. An intricately carved Catholic confessional hugs a wall, although according to the store’s frequently asked questions page, it was renamed a “forgiveness booth” after it was rescued from
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Nasa is finding out how people cope with the demands of long space missions at its Human Exploration Research Analog (Hera). For 45 days a crew of four people live in a habitat which simulates a mission to Phobos, a moon that orbits the planet Mars. The crew carry out daily maintenance tasks on board,
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Sam Darnold believes there’s something a lot different about the New York Jets these days. Sure, the start of training camp breeds overwhelming optimism and positive chatter all around the NFL. But the second-year quarterback insists there’s more to it than just cliché-filled declarations. This is real. Darnold can feel it. “The whole building, you
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