"A fine writer and a very good reporter, Thomsen tracks in detail the journey from the primal chaos of the promotion’s first event—1993’s UFC 1, where grapplers fought thumpers, bone-breakers fought chokers, and a Dutch kickboxer, with a blow of his foot, sent a Samoan sumo wrestler’s tooth flying into the crowd—to the streamlined pay-per-view mercilessness of today’s UFC.Cage Kings: How an Unli..."
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"Hospitals generally have struggled in recent years with high labor costs, staffing shortages and rising levels of uncompensated care, according to Rick Gundling, a senior vice president with the Healthcare Financial Management Association, a nonprofit that works with health care finance executives."
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"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also said in documents posted Monday on its website that it upgraded the investigation to an engineering analysis, a step closer to a recall."
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"“My shtick is I hope we play good.”As I was finishing this article, Josh Rawitch, from the Hall of Fame, let me know that the museum had secured—and for this we can be grateful—the “ClockCom” buzzer that had alerted Ron Kulpa, the third-base umpire on Opening Day at Wrigley Field, to the first pitch-clock violation to ever occur in a regular-season game.Baseball’s obsession with preserving its ..."
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"For example, Pittsburgh-area members challenged sex-segregated job advertisements in newspapers, leading to a 1973 Supreme Court decision that allowed such ads to be banned; Syracuse NOW picketed local bars and restaurants that prohibited “unescorted” women, in a campaign that helped change local codes and many state laws; and NOW chapters in Washington, D.C., and Seattle won legal protections ..."
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"The Food and Drug Administration on Friday laid out a proposal to begin regulating laboratory medical tests, a multibillion-dollar industry that the agency says poses a growing risk to patients because of potentially inaccurate results."
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"Despite working while in school and since — moonlighting at Starbucks, wineries and restaurants as well as counseling — McClelland still has a balance of about $38,000 in debt, from original loans of $10,000 towards her undergraduate studies and $40,000 for her masters in counseling at Sonoma State."
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"He is one of scores of farmers, ranchers and others living near the tiny town of New Cuyama who have been hauled into court by a lawsuit filed by two of the nation’s biggest carrot growers, Grimmway Farms and Bolthouse Farms, over the right to pump groundwater."
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"I got my copy during a long trip and did one of the activities on the plane; it turned out that my shadow was tired of flying and wanted to be home.Shaheen isn’t a practicing therapist, and her traditional mental-health credentials are limited: She graduated from Texas A&M University in 2020 with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and marketing, and took a training course in cognitive-behavioral ..."
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"The pop star’s rumored romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has shined a spotlight on the league that has brought in a new swath of fans (who are willing to pay handsomely to see their idol, even if it means going to a Jets game)."
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"Fleeing from my grandmother, who rushed after him with butcher knives not yet wiped clean of pigeon meat, the untucked bits of herhijab licking the air behind her like a shadow."
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"Wine experts from three West Coast universities are working together to meet the threat, including developing spray coatings to protect grapes, pinpointing the elusive compounds that create that nasty ashy taste, and deploying smoke sensors to vineyards to better understand smoke behavior."
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"He is one of scores of farmers, ranchers and others living near the tiny town of New Cuyama who have been hauled into court by a lawsuit filed by two of the nation’s biggest carrot growers, Grimmway Farms and Bolthouse Farms, over the right to pump groundwater."
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"There may be votes from the conservatives, especially Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, but you might also get some support from some folks on the left, in particular Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor—not because they believe conservatives are being discriminated against, but because they themselves have a lot of skepticism of private power and big companies.But what’s..."
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"Up for Debate: Conor Friedersdorf asks readers whether Democrats should stick with Joe Biden, and discusses controversy over a talk about racial color blindness.Explore all of our newsletters here.Evening Read Courtesy of The National ZooBasil the Opossum Has One Eye, a Big Heart, and a Job to DoBy Elaine GodfreyThis week was a bittersweet one at the zoo."
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"I find myself compelled, after all, to give the Latin names of some for the benefit of those who live where English is not spoken,—for they are likely to have a world-wide reputation.There is, first of all, the Wood-Apple (Malus sylvatica); the Blue-Jay Apple; the Apple which grows in Dells in the Woods, (sylvestrivallis) also in Hollows in Pastures (campestrivallis); the Apple that grows in an..."
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"Hyundai models covered by the recall include the 2011 to 2015 Elantra, Genesis Coupe, and Sonata Hybrid, the 2012 to 2015 Accent, Azera, and Veloster, the 2013 to 2015 Elantra Coupe and Santa Fe, the 2014 to 2015 Equus, the 2010 to 2012 Veracruz, the 2010 to 2013 Tucson, the 2015 Tucson Fuel Cell, and the 2013 Santa Fe Sport."
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"Among my first memories is a man getting out of his Dodge Charger in Glencoe, Illinois, and challenging the loudmouth waiting in line at the gas station to “Put ’em up.”Read: The car that killed glamourDetroit’s stumbling response to the demand for more economical cars was—in addition to union strife at the factories and shoddy manufacture—to give us a generation of lemons: the Pacer and Pinto ..."
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"The pop star’s rumored romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has shined a spotlight on the league that has brought in a new swath of fans (who are willing to pay handsomely to see their idol, even if it means going to a Jets game)."
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"Two years after China first added “sexual harassment” as a cause of lawsuits in 2019, the Yuanzhong Family and Community Development Service Center, a Beijing-based nonprofit group, found that only 24 cases using the law were recorded in a nationwide database."
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