They first met 25 years ago in Thailand, neither knowing then how much their paths would cross in golf. Ernie Els was a rising star from South Africa, four months away from winning his first U.S. Open. Tiger Woods was a senior in high school, six months away from winning his first U.S. Amateur. Woods […]
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WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard has fostered a poor environment for women and minority cadets and has failed to fairly investigate harassment by senior officers and to prevent retaliation against people who report bullying, a House committee said Wednesday. The report, by the House Oversight and Reform and Homeland Security Committees, accused the service of
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Doctors are reporting unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast cancer that had spread widely and resisted treatment By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer December 11, 2019, 4:13 PM 4 min read Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental
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Phoebe Buffay may have sashayed with her guitar into the sunset with musician Mike when “Friends” concluded in 2004. But things could have worked out, romantically, very differently for actor Lisa Kudrow’s character, according to the hit NBC sitcom’s co-creator David Crane. Crane revealed in an interview with the U.K.’s RadioTimes published Monday that “there
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Image copyright Nintendo Image caption Super Smash Bros is the only Nintendo game that has been approved by China The Nintendo Switch has finally gone on sale in China, but Super Smash Bros is the only official Nintendo game available. The console, which can be connected to a TV or used on the move, was
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The general secretary of the Russian Boxing Federation has told The Associated Press his fighters will only take part in the Tokyo Olympics if doping sanctions forcing them to compete as neutral athletes are overturned By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer December 11, 2019, 2:34 PM 3 min read Russian boxers will only take part
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When the Democratic primaries start in less than two months, they will lead off as usual with four familiar early states. What follows next is different. It’s not so different as to be unrecognizable, but enough to upend conventional wisdom about the path to the nomination. The changes make the 2020 Democratic calendar more like
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has become the youngest person ever to be named Time’s “person of the year December 11, 2019, 3:23 PM 2 min read Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time’s “person of the year” Wednesday, becoming at age 16 the youngest person to whom the U.S. magazine has given the
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Image copyright AFP/Getty images Doctors treating the victims of the New Zealand volcano are importing skin to treat those burned in the eruption. It is part of the intense medical response to treat those caught up in the disaster. When someone has a burn injury, skin is used as a “natural plaster” to help healing.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe recovered artwork was put on display by police Nothing was heard of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady after it was stolen nearly 23 years ago from a modern art gallery in Piacenza, northern Italy. There seemed little prospect of the masterpiece, valued at €60m (£50m;
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