Via The New Yorker: MORE: 31 Greatest American Olympians | How to watch the Rio Olympics Never? I understand that growing up in Jamaica is different than growing up in the United States, but I know in my high school, running the mile was mandatory for gym class. We all know Bolt’s strength is in shorter events, considering he owns the world record in both the 100 meters and 200 meters....
The stir was over a last-minute change Bush made in his opening remarks at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. If he had stuck with the script that’s been a tradition at these ceremonies for decades, Bush would have said: “I declare open the Games of Salt Lake City, celebrating the Winter Olympic Games.” That sounded flat to the president. The subject-verb construction was weird (and this is a guy who knows weird subject-verb construction)....
Olympic traditionalists cried “I told you so,” but many snowboarders felt they were mislead. “[Olympic officials] didn’t really tell anyone they were testing for marijuana,” says American snowboarder Ross Powers, the halfpipe bronze medalist in Nagano. “It was all up in the air.” Others questioned the significance of the ruling; marijuana isn’t exactly known for increasing speed and agility. Rebagliati claimed he did not smoke any pot, but admitted he was around it during a going-away party....
NBC and its affiliates are set to cover the event in the United States. The gargantuan task of broadcasting live and tape-delayed content will fall primarily to six stations — NBC USA, NBCSN, CNBC, Olympic Channel and Golf Channel — and NBC’s streaming platform Peacock. The good news for cord-cutters is that these networks are prominently featured on some of the most popular streaming options out there. As such, there will be plenty of ways to stream the Games after their year-long postponement....
In the first study conducted to assess the risk of fatalities presented by Omicron researchers assessed the progress of COVID patients admitted to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital and the Tshwane District Hospital, the latter of which has been converted into a COVID specialist facility. The hospitals are located in the City of Tshwane, the region of South Africa that was the first global epicenter of Omicron. “There are clear signs that case and admission rates in South Africa may decline further over the next few weeks,” the authors wrote....
“We expect it to overtake Delta within days, not weeks,” First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said Friday, according to the Washington Post. The U.K. Health Security Agency issued a similar warning, noting that Omicron has a “high growth rate,” over Delta and that it will likely become the dominant version of the virus in Great Britain by mid-December. Meanwhile, in Denmark, researchers have warned that Omicron could become the main strain by “the end of next week,” The Post reported....
Sure, this weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the “Hail Flutie,” the legendary play where Flutie hit Gerard Phelan with the impossible pass that helped No. 12 Boston College upset No. 10 Miami 47-45 at the Orange Bowl on Nov. 23, 1984. Try and ask Flutie a question he hasn’t heard at least once. We know the play was called “55 Flood Tip.” We know Flutie jumped into Steve Trapilo’s arms....
It’s been said that Pollack, a national-security official under Bill Clinton, is the Midas of the Iraq conflict: everyone he touches turns into a hawk. In his new book, Pollack shows, step by step, the terrible consequences of letting Saddam build up an arsenal. Last week he spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Seth Mnookin from his office at the Brookings Institution. NEWSWEEK: What did you think of Colin Powell’s presentation before the U....
In this fall’s glut of literary biographies sex or substance abuse spices up most of the lives: even poor old Henry James’s homosexual yearnings again come under scrutiny. But the appeal of these books isn’t just the hot skinny on Denis Diderot’s mistresses and marital rows, Evelyn Waugh’s nth alcoholic embarrassment or what Allen Ginsberg did in bed with Neal Cassady 45 years ago. Nor is it just the weird little factlets: that Waugh aspired to be a cabinetmaker, that Stephen Crane’s funeral was covered by cub reporter Wallace Stevens, that art critic Harold Rosenberg (Mary McCarthy’s Partisan Review colleague) created Smokey the Bear and that Ginsberg spent a month as a NEWSWEEK book reviewer....
They certainly have a sense of alarm. In 1989, crime rose 31.8 percent nationwide, with big cities like Leningrad and Moscow hit even harder. Theater directors report a falloff in ticket sales because audiences are afraid to be on the streets at night. Iron doors and bars for windows are in hot demand. Polls show that law and order tops the list of public concerns, with many urging a tougher crackdown on “hooligans” and racketeers....
One target of Wright’s counteroffensive is a private eye named Larry Case. Case says he’s being paid $540,000 by the tabloids to dig for dirt on Clinton. He claims to have a tape of a woman admitting an affair with the governor. The woman, who suffers from multiple-personality disorder, swears Case tricked her into saying she had sex with Clinton in a Little Rock hotel. She now says she’s never been to Little Rock....
The editor’s note, published as a prologue to a series of stories building up to the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s founding in July, did not explicitly identify the 1989 protests. The protests were crushed when tanks fought their way into Tiananmen Square in Beijing, killing thousands of people. Instead, the editors of Global Times made a veiled reference to “the impact of Western ideology in the late 1980s” in a long list of challenges the Communist Party has faced....
“Words can’t really define it. No words, really. We came up short,” Parker said following Duke’s upset loss to Mercer in the 2014 NCAA Tournament round of 64. “We can say a lot of stuff that we didn’t have, but we just didn’t take advantage of what we did.” PHOTOS: Best images from the round of 32 games This likely was the end of his Duke basketball career, his college basketball career, after one season and first-team All-America status ....
No team may ever match the consistent offensive brilliance of Gregg Popovich’s group, but for one possession during Game 2 of the NBA Finals, the Suns looked positively Spurs-ian. MORE: Best highlights from Game 2 of NBA Finals Check out the ball movement from the second quarter of Phoenix’s 118-108 win over Milwaukee, which gave the Suns a 2-0 series lead. What an incredible sequence. The Suns completed 10 total passes on this possession, and each Phoenix player on the floor (Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Mikal Bridges, Jae Crowder and Deandre Ayton) touched the ball at least once....
Around a quarter of U.S. hospitals are expecting ‘critical’ imminent staff shortages, according to government data seen by Newsweek. Of reporting hospitals, 1,180 anticipate a critical staffing shortage with the week, out of 4,940 - a figure of 24 percent. Another 1,184 in the data didn’t respond to the question. The data from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was updated on January 2 and shows 98 percent of hospitals reporting across all 50 states....
But for Fuchs, the meeting turned out to be a case of strangulation. After waxing on about strategy, Levin handed his longtime close colleague a press release that was already on its way to the wires. Page One: Fuchs’s bitter rivals, Warner Bros. studio heads Robert Daly and Terry Semel, would take over the entire entertainment side of the triangle–including Fuchs’s music group. Page Two: Fuchs was fired. According to insiders, there is good (and not so paltry) news for Fuchs: he’ll get at least $50 million to walk....
After a few weeks of use, it is obvious there is a lot to love about the latest smartphone from the up-and-coming phonemaker. The 7T, which hits the U.S. via T-Mobile this week priced at $599, makes a lot of sense in the context of the American market—working to bridge the gap between 2018’s 6T handset and the more premium 7 Pro, which was released back in May this year....
Onfi belongs to a class of medications called benzodiazepines, which are known as central nervous system depressants. It works by binding to and affecting the action of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). GABA is an amino acid in the brain responsible for passing information between the brain’s nerve cells and the spinal cord. Onfi is a controlled substance, meaning it can be abused or lead to dependence. What Is Onfi Used For?...
