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David McCormack gave third-seeded Kansas a spark when the big man returned from his COVID-19 quarantine in time to practice for its NCAA Tournament opener. When the first round game against Eastern Washington began, McCormack gave the Jayhawks much more than a boost of energy. Put on the ropes early by Tanner Groves and the […]
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Cancer cells have evolved mechanisms to escape the body’s immune defense. Agents that prevent immune escape are attractive targets for the development of new cancer therapies. Scientists led by Prof. Herbert Waldmann and Dr. Slava Ziegler at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund have now developed a new cell-based test system to […]
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U.S. private equity firm Blackstone in 2016 unplugged a Texas power plant that it owned from the state’s grid in a bet that it could make a fortune as the only American-based generator selling electricity exclusively to Mexico. That bet has gone south. Nearly five years later, Blackstone’s gas-fired plant, Frontera Holdings LLC, is struggling […]
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Twitter is testing a way to let you watch YouTube videos right from your timeline. Typically, when someone includes a YouTube link in a tweet, clicking that link sends you to YouTube, which can be frustrating if you didn’t want to leave Twitter to watch the video. This new feature, which is in testing today […]
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Normally this story would begin with “have you ever wondered what kind of animal best suits your personality?” But that would be a ridiculous way to start because surely everyone has had that thought at least once. A 10-question personality quiz has caught fire since 2018: Appearing on CNN, CBS, the LA Times, and more, […]
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INDIANAPOLIS – Chances are, you can fit Colorado’s entire NCAA Tournament history on the back of an old Patrick Ewing jersey. And now Ewing is part of that history, too. The Buffaloes used an early 3-point barrage to parlay their highest seeding ever at March Madness into a first-round win Saturday over one of the […]
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The health of women aged 65 and over appears to be related, in addition to their own socioeconomic characteristics, with that of their partners, as a result of traditional gender norms. This is one of the main conclusions of research led by Jordi Gumà, a researcher at the UPF Department of Political and Social Sciences, […]
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A group of activist investors with a combined 9.5% stake in Kohl’s Corp on Thursday reduced the number of directors it plans to nominate to the department store’s board to five from nine. The group had last month nominated a slate including former executives of Macy’s Inc and Burlington Stores to Kohl’s board, in what […]
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If you’ve got an Alexa device in your home, like an Echo smart speaker, anyone in your home can use it. But there are certain disadvantages to having it associated with only one account. Mainly, it means that everyone is pretty much sharing the same account. You can create what Amazon calls a “household.” That […]
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To make it in any professional sport takes skill, determination, and practice. Having someone who believes in you and goes out of their way to help can be the difference between living the dream or hanging up your skates. Throughout the many years that Graham Nesbitt managed the local skating arena in Seaforth, Ontario, he […]
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