9/11, and what happened next podcasts of the week
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Best podcasts of the weekPodcastsMissing Richard Simmons’s Dan Taberski returns with a new series about the ripple effects of the attacks which took place 20 years ago this week. Plus: Philippa Perry on sibling stresses
Picks of the week9/12 (Available now on Wondery+ and Amazon Music, and widely from 8 September)
Unlike much of the current crop of 9/11 programming, which considers the event itself, this new series from Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons) instead looks at the ripple effects, and the reality for different Americans on 12 September 2001.
[Read More]A moment that changed me Charlize Therons boobs, my boyfriend, and OCD | Obsessive-compulsive
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
A moment that changed meObsessive-compulsive disorder This article is more than 8 years oldA moment that changed me – Charlize Theron’s boobs, my boyfriend, and OCDThis article is more than 8 years oldRose BretécherA chance discovery of my therapy homework for obsessive doubts helped me embrace the positive power within embarrassment
Picture this: you’re a 26-year-old woman who’s recently fallen in love with a man. He’s round your house right now.
[Read More]Alabama woman with two uteruses gives birth twice in two days | Alabama
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
AlabamaAlabama woman with two uteruses gives birth twice in two daysKelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered healthy daughters after 20 hours of labor, one day apart – giving each twin a separate birthday
An Alabama mother with a rare double uterus has delivered a set of twins, the hospital treating her announced on Friday.
In what doctors are calling a “one-in-a-million” pregnancy, 32-year-old Kelsey Hatcher delivered a set of twin daughters, one of whom was in each womb, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hospital.
[Read More]Elastica limits | Life and style
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
The ObserverLife and styleElastica limitsAs Britpop's queen, she had everything: In Elastica, she had a best-selling group and in Damon Albarn, a boyfriend lusted after by thousands. But then celebrity took its toll. Justine Frischmann tells Andrew Smith why she'd rather have babies than a bandWe meet at her handsome four-storey Victorian house in Notting Hill. 'I always feel embarrassed to say I live in Notting Hill these days,' Justine Frischmann says, smiling her Mona Lisa with a naughty secret smile.
[Read More]Exodus: Blood In, Blood Out review feral energy and refined catchiness
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
MetalReview(Nuclear Blast)The last two Exodus albums took the Bay Area thrash legends into firmly progressive and contemporary territory, with a bewildering number of riffs piled up like bones on a funeral pyre. While those records confirmed the band’s ability to move with the times, it’s hard to deny that Blood In, Blood Out’s wholesale return to the vicious thrash simplicity that Exodus helped to define 30 years ago is a joyous and welcome development.
[Read More]Meadowlark Lemon obituary | Basketball
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
BasketballObituaryMeadowlark Lemon obituaryUndisputed star of the Harlem Globetrotters, the team that brought barnstorming basketball as entertainment to the worldMeadowlark Lemon, who has died aged 83, was billed as the Clown Prince of Basketball, but deserved to be called its king. During the almost 25 years that he was the undisputed star of the Harlem Globetrotters, the most successful barnstorming sports outfit in history, they reached the zenith of their worldwide popularity.
[Read More]Middle East is sliding closer to the edge of a wider regional conflict | Israel-Gaza war
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
The ObserverIsrael-Gaza warAnalysisMiddle East is sliding closer to the edge of a wider regional conflictJulian Borger in WashingtonAn escalation could spark a conflagration that would bring Israel into open confrontation with Iran, and suck in the US too
The Middle East has been slipping towards the precipice of a regional war ever since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October and the ferocious Israeli response in Gaza. The past week has shown how the cliff edge keeping it from that abyss could quickly crumble away.
[Read More]Naturopath who said bicarbonate soda cures cancer banned for life by health watchdog | Health
Posted on June 12, 2024
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Health This article is more than 4 years oldNaturopath who said bicarbonate soda cures cancer banned for life by health watchdogThis article is more than 4 years oldHCCC bars Barbara O’Neill from practising after finding that she told cancer patients to avoid chemotherapy and sick mothers not to take antibiotics
A naturopath who told vulnerable clients that their cancer was a fungus that could be cured with bicarbonate soda rather than through conventional medical treatment has been barred from practising for life, according to the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission.
[Read More]Stoolball, a game of speed and glamour archive, 1960
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
From the Guardian archiveSport19 May 1960 Balls are tossed, full pitch, to the batswoman, who has to guard a wicket consisting of a wooden “target,” mounted about shoulder level
‘There’s a breathless hush,” all right to-night, with “ten to make and the match to win…” There is also a “blinding light” of evening and a breeze riffling through the budding tree-tops. The setting is very old English and nostalgic. But for once it is not somnolent.
[Read More]A Woman Walks into a Bank review tricksy Russian tragicomedy with a talking cat
Posted on June 11, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
TheatreReviewTheatre503, London
Roxy Cook’s award-winning debut is a whimsical, layered meta-tale about the clash of old Soviet ways and modern, capitalist culture
This play opens just as the title promises. Two narrators tell us the story of an elderly woman (Giulia Innocenti) from old Russia who is stranded in the new Moscow of 2018 that is still high from hosting the World Cup.
She is sold a loan with an extortionate interest rate by a callow, morally slippery bank manager (Sam Newton), even though it is intimated that she is in the early throes of dementia and can’t keep hold of the manager’s name.
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