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It’s no surprise that the LEGO Minecraft line is such a big hit. After all, the two brands have a lot in common, from their blocky nature to their emphasis on creativity. Considering how close LEGO and Minecraft are, it’s frankly surprising that Traveller’s Tales hasn’t made a LEGO Minecraft game yet. Combining the licensed LEGO game model with Minecraft’s aesthetic and mechanics seems pretty easy, and bound to be a lot of fun too....

“The Acts of the Apostles.” The flames lit on their little heads and bravely and dangerously went they onward. “The Folksinger’s Wordbook” by Irwin Silber. Hymns, blues, murder ballads, miners’ laments—the whole culture. “The Portable Steinbeck” by John Steinbeck. The first book I bought with my own money; I read it over and over. “The Journals of John Cheever.” It may be the finest prose work by an American writer....

An Important Book you haven’t read: “The Man Without Qualities” by Robert Musil. It’s still in plastic, in a beautiful box set. I feel so bad about it; what can I say? I’ll get there eventually. A book you want your kids to read: “Little House on the Prairie.” I really want them to love the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, because they were important to me, but I’m worried they won’t because they’re boys....

In England, where it was published last year, ““Harry’’ has been a hit, selling a whopping 150,000 copies and winning a British Book Award and a Smarties Prize, sort of a Booker Prize for children’s literature. (Adults as well as kids have taken to the book. Rowling’s British publisher recently issued a second edition with a more grown-up cover, so older readers wouldn’t be embarrassed to carry ““Harry.’’) The American rights to the book were purchased by Scholastic Books for more than $100,000, the most ever paid for a first-time author’s children’s book....

Every great football club has a legacy, a history, a slew of legends in their ranks and a period of total domination. It is the midst of this time that a casual lover of football becomes a fan, then a fanatic & finally it becomes your faith. But this post isn’t about that, this is about how I and countless others of this generation came to follow a football club called Manchester United located almost 5200 miles away from the aforementioned place....

Boorda, 56, clearly wanted to be seen as such a leader. His pride was a source of his immense drive and strength. Somehow, tragically, it may also have been the source of his undoing. He apparently could not tolerate the idea that his own example might dishonor the service that had been his life since he was 16. He so identified with the uniform he wore – and with the decorations on his chest – that in the end, he was apparently unable to separate his real self from his naval persona....

The study, published in the journal Science last week, is just the latest chapter in a detective story that started six years ago, when an Australian Red Cross worker identified a pair of transfusion recipients who’d been infected by the same blood donor years earlier but hadn’t suffered any symptoms. In a 1992 report, researchers described seven such patients and concluded they shared a “nonpathogenic strain” of HIV. Now a....

As a note, this piece covers the major Legendary arcs from the Pokemon franchise, but not every individual Legendary is covered. For example, the Musketeers are largely self-contained without much need for explanation to understand how they connect. It will also cover the events of all the Pokemon games, so this is also just a general spoiler warning for those who are not caught up. RELATED: Pokemon Sword and Shield Needs More Events Like the Zeraora Raid...

Matt Reeves’ The Batman has successfully reinvented the Caped Crusader on the big screen. It’s about time Superman was similarly reinvented. But instead of doubling down on the darkness like Reeves’ horror-tinged neo-noir epic did with Gotham’s masked protector, Warner Bros. should pump its resources into a more faithful Superman reboot that begs the ultimate Superman question: what if an all-powerful being used those powers for the good of mankind?...

Actually, this argument would not be raging if the limit were five terms. Byrd, you see, is in his sixth. That fact, and his theory of representation-as-rapaciousness, is why he is the much-feared and extremely expensive chairman of the mighty Appropriations Committee. Byrd, 73, has not been in Washington as long as some other legislators. Not as long as Jamie Whitten, the Mississippi Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee....

The agency has released its annual top 10 “Catches of 2021!” list, which reveals the 10 strangest things found and confiscated by airport security workers. In a video posted to the TSA’s Twitter account, the agency counts down to the No. 1 strangest item, accompanied by humorous quips, in an effort to remind passengers of the things they can and cannot bring with them when traveling through U.S. security checkpoints....

Based on the book “Cracking India,” a semiautobiographical account by author Bapsi Sidhwa, the film surveys India as the British depart, approaching the partisan struggle from a neutral standpoint. Mehta’s window to the mayhem is Lenny (Maia Sethna), the privileged 8-year-old daughter of a Parsee family in Lahore. An only child slowed by a leg brace, Lenny is doted upon by her young nanny, Shanta (Nandita Das), and friends including Dil Nawaz (Aamir Khan), an affable ice cream vendor, and Hasan (Rahul Khanna), a shy masseuse....

WOODWARD: I understand the central government in Hanoi was puzzled when the pope named you the new cardinal of Vietnam. PHAM: My three predecessors were all from Hanoi, and at first the government thought the pope had given me new authority here. I told them only the color of my robes had changed, that I have no new responsibilities as archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City. I did not mention that as a cardinal, I have new responsibilities to Rome....

Nearly five years ago, Carr, then 31, went to the doctor complaining of shortness of breath, pain and muscle cramps. She thought she was just overtaxed from a strenuous yoga class. Then came what she calls her “needle off the record moment.” Her doctors told her she had epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, an extremely rare form of cancer that affects the lining of the blood vessels of the liver and lungs. There is no cure....

Musharraf, 58, stands squarely on the side of secularism. And his tilt toward the United States seemed to pay at least one early dividend: the Bush administration said last week it would waive economic sanctions imposed on Pakistan and India after they tested nuclear weapons three years ago. In Pakistan’s long battle between religious extremism and modern secularism, Musharraf had staked out his ground, and it wasn’t in the middle–he was a modern man....

Meet “Dr Distance,” the marathon runner who has been gaining the internet’s attention by dressing up as the famous streamer. He’s got the height, the mustache, the shades, and most importantly, he’s got the signature red vest to complete the cosplay. While he doesn’t look exactly like the famous streamer and certainly doesn’t meet his six-foot-eight stature, Dr Distance does his best to be a mirror image of Dr Disrespect, even going as far as writing his captions of posts just like the Doc would....

There comes a time, no matter what you do, where your little one seems to be constantly restless, in pain, or just plain miserable. Welcome to the wonderful world of teething. Teething is a critical step for your child’s development into a beautiful smiling toddler, but it’s not always the easiest stage. As a parent, you understandably want to do everything you can to ease your baby’s discomfort and ensure that his or her teeth grow big and strong....

Almost everyone stalls eventually, but the unrest seems more general today. Able boomers, ready for promotion, see jobs above them being snuffed. With few places to go, they’re topping out younger and at lower levels than they expected. Older generations weren’t stopped until they reached their late 40s, says consultant Judith Bardwick of La Jolla, Calif. Now it’s the early 40s and may go lower yet, leaving even thirtysomethings stuck at the same level for years....