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...case of a tie. If the score is still even after the 30 minutes of extra time, I suggest that the team that drew fewer red and yellow penalty cards be awarded the victory. John Miller London Taylor said that George Orwell described sport in the mid-1940s as "war minus the shooting" but that today Orwell's ghost "would probably diagnose not an exercise in disguised nationalism but a series of deceptions practiced on a credulous public." Most sporting events have indeed gained an ill reputation for doping, bribery, hot tempers and even violence. The Olympics, football, cycling, tennis...
...When antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, infections caused by staph were easily fought. By the 1950s, however, the bacteria had developed defense mechanisms to antibiotics and today they are increasingly resistant. Until recently, these resistant bacteria were found exclusively in the hospital environment, but they have spread to the community - particularly in Georgia, Texas and California. I see children in my office every week with tender, warm boils of pus on their buttocks, legs, arms and even foreheads. Ten years ago these infections were rare and quickly treated with a shot of antibiotics in the office and a short...
...been had counting the days to the reading, and it was plainly the chance to see Rowling in the flesh that had attracted her to the event. I don't think I ever felt that way about Arthur Ransome, the wonderful British children's author of the 1930s and 1940s whose books I once devoured with the same passion Gina now displays. But then, the whole way in which one consumes and appreciates children's literature has changed since I was a child. Gina spent much of the day before the readings at a podcast in a New York bookstore...
George Orwell famously described the international sporting fixtures of the mid-1940s as "war minus the shooting." Looking at the newspaper back pages six decades later, his ghost would probably diagnose not an exercise in disguised nationalism but a series of deceptions practiced on a credulous public. Never, it seems, has the annual summer sports extravaganza been so inflamed by scandal. An inquiry into match fixing in the Italian Serie A soccer league looks set to bring the enforced relegation of four leading clubs. A few hundred kilometers to the north, several much-fancied entrants in this year's Tour...
...prime minister. Rumors grew furiously but Sher-Gil doesn't seem to have cared; her self-portraits, which, like her nude studies of women, are icons of Indian feminism, show a cheerful, exuberant woman, confident in her sexuality. Indian journalist Khushwant Singh, a fellow resident of Lahore in the 1940s, writes in his autobiography: "She was said to have given appointments to her lovers, three to four every day with intervals of a couple of hours in between." Perhaps none of this was true, but it added to her mystique, as did rumors of her bisexuality. Even her death...