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Dallas is trying to walk a fine line this offseason. There are rumblings that the Mavericks want to be aggressive going after a star player to pair with Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis, one that can vault them to contender status now. At the same time, they want to preserve 2021 cap space because if […]
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New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) finds that women with kidney failure have low rates of contraceptive use. The study, published in the journal Kidney Medicine, finds an overall contraceptive use rate of 5.3% among women with kidney failure undergoing dialysis in the United States. “Although end-stage kidney disease adversely impacts fertility, conception […]
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Two heavy hitters of the investment world recently disclosed that they own stakes in Palantir, the secretive and controversial big data firm backed by Peter Thiel that began trading on Wall Street in September. But one of them already plans to sell it. Soros Fund Management, run by billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, and […]
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Motorola has announced the Moto G9 Power, a budget handset with one standout feature: a huge 6,000 mAh battery that Motorola claims will deliver up to 60 hours of battery life. It’s not the biggest battery we’ve seen in a device of this caliber (Samsung’s Galaxy M51 has a 7,000 mAh battery, for example) but […]
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The Boeing 737-700 killed the brown bear but a cub nearby believed to be about 2 years old was uninjured, authorities said. An Alaska Airlines jetliner struck a brown bear while landing early Saturday evening, killing the animal and causing damage to the plane, officials said. None of the passengers or crew members on board […]
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Hall of Famer Maurice Cheeks is returning to his hometown to serve as an assistant under new coach Billy Donovan, the Chicago Bulls announced Saturday. Cheeks, who grew up on Chicago’s South Side, was on Donovan’s staff in Oklahoma City the past five seasons. The Bulls hired Donovan in September to replace the fired Jim […]
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A new study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, has deepened the understanding of epigenetic mechanisms in tumorigenesis and revealed a previously undetected repertoire of cancer driver genes. The study was published this week in Science Advances. Using a new prediction algorithm, called DORGE (Discovery of Oncogenes and tumor suppressoR genes using […]
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Virgin Galactic said Monday that it no longer plans to conduct a key test flight of its spacecraft this week because of a surge in new Covid-19 cases and resulting related restrictions in New Mexico, home to the company’s glitzy spaceport. New Mexico has reported over 1,000 new cases each day for the past ten […]
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The latest entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, will launch on November 13th. But what does that mean for the series’ free-to-play battle royale, Call of Duty: Warzone, which is itself based on 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare? In a lengthy blog post, the games’ developers, […]
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What happens when a world-famous independent bookshop finds itself in dire straights due to the global pandemic? It gets creative, of course. As with other struggling bookstores like New York City’s venerable Strand, landmark Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company experienced a devastating drop in revenue as the COVID-19 lockdown forced them to drastically change the […]
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