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Power outages, flight cancellations sweep South as storm slams region

Power outages, flight cancellations sweep South as storm slams region

More than 100,000 homes and businesses were already dark in Georgia alone early Sunday. More than 3,000 flights to, from and within the United States have been canceled or delayed. Choco, Mississippi, woke up inches from the snow. The entire eastern United States was bracing for a winter storm, sleet, high winds or hurricanes on Sunday as a furious weather front that dumped more than a foot of…

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20 Years Later, the Story Behind the Guantánamo Photo That Won’t Go Away

20 Years Later, the Story Behind the Guantánamo Photo That Won’t Go Away

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Four months to the day after the September 11 attacks, a photographer hoisted a camera over shiny new barbed wire and snapped a picture of 20 prisoners on their knees in orange uniforms, tied and masked with their heads bowed. The photo sparked a debate about what the United States was doing in its naval prison, which continues to operate to this day. It has also become one…

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10 Places to Visit in Maui (That Aren’t Lahaina)  • The Blonde Abroad

10 Places to Visit in Maui (That Aren’t Lahaina)  • The Blonde Abroad

10 Places To Visit In Maui (Not Haina) • The Blonde Is Out summit

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Alan Scott, Doctor Behind the Medical Use of Botox, Dies at 89

Alan Scott, Doctor Behind the Medical Use of Botox, Dies at 89

He married Ruth White, a teacher and housewife, in 1956. She died in 2009. In addition to his daughter Alison, Dr. Scott is survived by his wife Jacqueline Lemerre. three more daughters, Jennifer, Heidi, and Ann Scott; son of Nathanael four daughters, Susan, Mary, Sally and Phyllis Lemerre; 20 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Dr. Scott was not the first scientist to explore the…

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All 32 NFL fanbases ranked from worst to best

All 32 NFL fanbases ranked from worst to best

JL1Row, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Commons Wikimedia How are NFL fans rated during professional football? What perks have the best NFL fans? Which ones have the worst NFL fan bases? NFL fans rated from worst to best It’s very hard to pick the best, worst, or even the highest fan base in the NFL. What really separates one fan base from another? There are a lot of things to consider when ranking NFL fan…

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James Mtume, Whose ‘Juicy Fruit’ Became a Hip-Hop Beat, Dies at 76

James Mtume, Whose ‘Juicy Fruit’ Became a Hip-Hop Beat, Dies at 76

In between production jobs, Mr. Mtume and Mr. Lucas recorded with their lead musicians as the group Mtume, which included singer Tawatha Agee. Mr. Matum described the group’s first albums as “sophisticated”, using sumptuous harmony and elaborate formats. But one day he came to a realization. “I was playing something that sounded just like something else I had done,” he said. “I got up and left,…

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What Does It Mean to Be Committed in 2022?

What Does It Mean to Be Committed in 2022?

My focus was to create more variety in our pages and make our section more inclusive, and that was also the goal of the previous editor. But it’s something that I feel personally because I have this amazing opportunity to tell all the different types of stories that really represent the world around us. I know the bridal department gets a bad reputation. So I really came up with a desire to…

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6 Knitwear Outfits Fashion People Are Wearing

6 Knitwear Outfits Fashion People Are Wearing

When it comes to winter staples, knitwear is clearly dominant. After all, the functional aspect is where it is when it comes to comfort and warmth. Given the vast majority of stylish knitted pieces out there today, there’s also a major fashion aspect at play as well. On that note, we thought we’d highlight a few solid knitwear that style designers won’t stop wearing right now that are equally…

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Checking Privilege in the Animal Kingdom

Checking Privilege in the Animal Kingdom

Some North American red squirrels are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. They live in pine forests where adults defend food caches. Without their own lair, many young squirrels would not survive the winter. But every year, some squirrel mothers abandon their territory, inheriting all their food for one or more babies left behind. These little squirrels are likely to live until…

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Why a Grandfather Went Back to College: ‘I Was Not Whole’

Why a Grandfather Went Back to College: ‘I Was Not Whole’

In the fall of 1959, Cerro Scala, who had just graduated from high school, was commuting to a clerical job in Times Square from Staten Island, and also going to City College, Uptown on Convent Street in the evening. The trip home – which relied on the IRT to Lower Manhattan, the Staten Island Ferry and then the bus to New Brighton – took about two and a half hours, though sometimes stretched to…

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Review: In ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ Home Is Like No Place

Review: In ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ Home Is Like No Place

In a certain famous story about Kansas, the protagonist goes on a journey of discovery in a fictional land, learns something about herself, and then returns to a comfortable place by tapping her heels and saying, “There’s no place like home.” On HBO’s beautiful and whimsical “Somebody Somewhere” that begins on Sunday, a Kansas woman with a song in her heart sets out to find her way, not by…

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Twenty Years Ago, a Tennis Comeback in Australia Like No Other

Twenty Years Ago, a Tennis Comeback in Australia Like No Other

The day Jennifer Capriati played her career match was tough. It was late January 2002, and Capriati, then 25, was facing Martina Hingis, 21, in the women’s final at the Australian Open in Melbourne. Conditions were so harsh – temperatures on the field reached 115 F (46 C) – that both players slumped on the back of the stadium between points, even after bathing in ice during a 10-minute break…

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The Mental Health of Tennis Players Is No Longer in the Shadows

The Mental Health of Tennis Players Is No Longer in the Shadows

Robin Soderling was at the peak of his power when the walls began to collapse. In 2009, when Soderling was just 24 years old, he stunned four-times defending champion Rafael Nadal on his way to the French Open final. Soderling reached the final again in 2010, losing to Nadal. By the end of the season, Soderling ranked fourth in the world. Eight months later, he played his last match on the ATP…

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The Sunday Read: ‘This Isn’t the California I Married’

The Sunday Read: ‘This Isn’t the California I Married’

Elizabeth Weil, author of Sunday Read Today, writes that in her marriage, there was a silent third husband: California. “The country was dramatic and a handful,” Will writes. “But it was wonderful, and it brought into our lives, through the natural world, all the treasure and magic we need.” However, for Weil there is an inner struggle living in a situation where wildfires have become the norm.…

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There is talk of moving from “containment to management,” with fewer restrictions as spring progresses.

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Microsoft Warns of Cyber Attack on Ukrainian Computer Networks

Microsoft Warns of Cyber Attack on Ukrainian Computer Networks

Microsoft warned Saturday evening that it had detected a highly destructive form of malware in dozens of government and private computer networks in Ukraine, which appeared to be waiting to be run by an unknown actor. In a blog post, the company said that on Thursday — around the same time that government agencies in Ukraine discovered their websites had been defaced — investigators monitoring…

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Russia Issues Subtle Threats More Far-Reaching Than a Ukraine Invasion

Russia Issues Subtle Threats More Far-Reaching Than a Ukraine Invasion

VIENNA – No one expected much progress from last week’s diplomatic marathon to defuse the security crisis that Russia has sparked in Eastern Europe by surrounding Ukraine on three sides with 100,000 troops and then, according to White House estimates, sending in saboteurs to create a pretext for an invasion. But as the Biden administration and NATO run simulations on the table about how the next…