In this malleable, ebb-and-flow pandemic world, there may be one certainty gleaned from the last nearly two years of living with the coronavirus: that here and there may not look very much alike. When New York City was all sirens, silence and grim isolation during the first wave of the pandemic, it was easy for …
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DURHAM, NC – Before we get to the score, you should – no, you must – know what it was like at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday evening. That is the only way to appreciate what happened. The occasion was the final game in which Mike Krzyzewski, winner of the most Division I men’s basketball …
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Sony’s latest versions of the Walkman, the pioneering portable music player first released in 1979, are nothing like the original cassette player that came with foam headphones. Instead the latest Walkman is a digital music player that costs $ 1,600 or $ 3,200. This probably won’t be a big seller. Neither were the Nokia and …
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Max Scherzer, the Mets ‘new star pitcher, was perhaps the most prominent face of the players’ union’s fight with Major League Baseball’s club owners over a new labor contract. He sits on a top union subcommittee. He was at the nine straight days of face-to-face negotiations last month in Jupiter, …
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The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the explorer Ernest Shackleton. A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using …
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For American parents, particularly those with young children, the last couple of months have been dizzying and beyond frustrating. In early February, federal regulators announced that they would evaluate Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for the youngest children – only to scrap that plan 10 days later, citing doubts about the vaccine’s effectiveness in that age group. …
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Georgia, the defensive mammoth, and Alabama, the perennial juggernaut, seemed to be on a collision course to the top of college football all season. They got a shot at each other in the Southeastern Conference championship in December – a game in which the Bulldogs barely resembled the behemoth they’d been from their first game. …
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In college basketball’s midmajor leagues, winning the conference tournament is often the only dependable way for a team to secure an NCAA tournament bid. But even before the Bellarmine men’s team beat Jacksonville, 77-72, in the ASUN Conference championship game on Tuesday, it had no shot at participating in the national tournament. Bellarmine, a private, …
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Rivian, which has had a rocky ride in the stock market after a blockbuster initial public offering, cast a further shadow over its outlook on Thursday, reporting that supply chain problems could severely constrain its production of electric vehicles. The company said it would be able to produce only 25,000 vehicles this year, half the …
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When the NCAA men’s tournament starts with the play-in games on Tuesday and the round of 64 on Thursday, some of the most noticeable players to watch will come from schools like Bryant, South Dakota State and Seton Hall – not just from the top seeds . Of course, big-name brands like Gonzaga, Kentucky, Duke, …