Unless you have the capital to splurge on a flat-bed business class seat, sleeping on an airplane is likely not a comfortable experience for you. Between the cramped space, cabin pressure and general stress of transit, flights don’t offer ideal circumstances for catching some z’s ― even during the red-eye night hours. But there are […]
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Boxer Patrick Day’s fight for life has ended. The super welterweight died Wednesday surrounded by friends and family, four days after being knocked out by Charles Conwell during a USBA title bout in Chicago. He was 27. Day’s promoter, Lou DiBella, made the solemn announcement on his company’s website, praising the athlete as a “beacon of
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DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson for being “too eager by far to get a deal at any cost”. Speaking alongside party leader Arlene Foster, Mr Dodds said the Benn Act had forced the PM into “desperation measures” in order to avoid asking for a Brexit extension. His remarks came
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What did you want to be when you were young? By the time I was in fourth or fifth grade, I wanted to be an elected official or a policymaker. My grandfather Ruby, whom I was close to, read The New York Times every day from front to back and engaged me in conversation about
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Women are often faced with the less-than-ideal choice of buying a bra that doesn’t fit or taking out a second mortgage to pay for one that does. Even worse: Shelling out big bucks doesn’t seem to guarantee you’ll be wearing the right size. I know because I recently visited two high-end retailers and a Victoria’s
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As Halloween approaches, Rudy Giuliani is looking scarier than ever, according to a new cartoon by Jim Carrey in New York Magazine. (See it below.) The former New York City mayor has already been in hot water for trying to get Trump to use his office to pressure Ukraine and for refusing to comply with
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By Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Last fall, Intuit’s longtime CEO Brad Smith embarked on a farewell tour of the company’s offices around the world. Smith
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A yellow organism which looks like fungus but acts like an animal has gone on display at the Paris Zoological Park. The slim mould – Physarum polycephalum – has almost 720 sexes and has been described as one of “nature’s mysteries” by scientists. It can heal itself in two minutes if cut in half, and
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Yokohama resides in the perpetual shadow of its more prominent neighbor. Less than half an hour by train from Tokyo, the sprawling port city is the second-largest in Japan, yet registers as barely a blip among most tourists to the region. But that may soon change, at least among sports fans. This fall, Yokohama is
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Ever felt like you’ve been queuing forever? Scientists say fossils found in Morocco suggest the practice of forming orderly lines may date back 480 million years and could have had evolutionary advantages. Their study, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, describes groups of blind trilobites — known as Ampyx — all facing in the
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