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The Conan the Barbarian series is the first project in a deal between Netflix and Conan Properties International, the company owned by Fredrik Malmberg’s Cabinet Entertainment. Under the terms of the deal, Netflix has the exclusive option to acquire the rights to the library of written Conan works to develop live-action and animated projects for film and television. RELATED: Henry Cavill Says He’s ‘Less Annoying’ When He’s Playing Sherlock...

NEWSWEEK: What are the earliest recorded methods of birth control? Andrea Tone: The Egyptian “[Petrie] Papyrus” [the oldest known guide to contraception], which dates back to 1850 B.C., mentions the use of suppositories for women made out of crocodile dung. So we know that birth control dates back to ancient times. Wasn’t that dangerous? It’s hard to say because it has never been replicated in studies. But I’m sure it was unhealthy and made sex uncomfortable....

I try a feeble attempt at haggling for five extra minutes of sleep to erase out the feeling of stabbing the man owning the voice with a knife. Sadly I’m rewarded with a harder kick and a threat involving my face and the colours black and blue. A Nazi mass-murderer in Israel couldn’t have been more serious. I mentally scream a perfect swear word sexually connecting the man and a donkey, and turn methodically to my right hand side, careful not to do it too fast....

were U.S. citizens at the time of their imprisonment; were interned in concentration camps–prisoners of forced-labor and POW camps are expressly excluded unless conditions are judged to have been comparable. Those who think they may be eligible can call 202-616-6975.

Nozomi Okuhara – Just a shade over 5 feet tall. She has a gritty defence. She keeps moving the shuttle all over the court and has an astonishing staying power however long the rallies be. Nozomi also has a never say die attitude. When the two meet on the court, it can be explosive. The on-court rivalry between the two has been nothing short of incredible until now. The record of their face-off is 5 matches each, after Sindhu’s recent win over Okuhara in the quarter-final match at the Yonex All England Open, 2018....

However, some sides will be far happier than others after Thursday’s ceremony in Monaco. Below, Goal runs through the winners and losers from the draw… WINNERS: MANCHESTER UNITED Memories of a rare group-stage failure under Sir Alex Ferguson are prominent for Manchester United after being again drawn alongside Benfica and Basel, while CSKA Moscow were an ally when the Reds fell at the same hurdle two years ago. That said, this is about as good a draw as United could have hand-selected and they should have little trouble negotiating their way into the post-Christmas knockout rounds....

I often hear about the football nostalgia of the ”good old days“ playing on cobbled streets like I did in Anfield as a kid, or having jumpers for goals etc. Recently, I went back in time to Manipur in North East India, where many of the facilities were worse than I had ever experienced in my youth. However, the football people of Manipur had realized the truism that poor facilities do not make good players and had worked hard to get the best for the local players....

Mission accomplished, by Bombardier and other teenagers galvanized by the Iraq war. A new wave of activism swept through America’s high schools this past year–from Petaluma, Calif., where 52 students were suspended in November for walking out of class to protest the impending war, to Orlando, Fla., where debates at a Model U.N. program in March were infused with urgency and relevance as students found themselves arguing about a war that started just days later....

The Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider at the European Centre for Particle Physics (CERN) was a wonder of both scale and delicacy. The great circular tunnel that housed it was 27 kilometers long, yet the high-energy particle beams within it were so exquisitely balanced that they responded to changes in the water level of nearby Lac Leman and trains leaving Geneva Station. For the past 11 years this sensitive monster provided physicists with fundamental new facts about the world; this fall it was scheduled to be shut down so that an even mightier machine, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be installed in the same tunnel....

“If we keep going on a long bad run it will be difficult to gel together. We need a good result. One good result can be the best medicine but obviously we need to be quick – and quick means Peterborough Tuesday and, on Sunday, Liverpool,” he said. “One game, one win, will clean all the players’ brains from the problems they have now. The only way to find what you need is to work together....

Between 1975 and 1979 nearly 1.8 million Cambodians died under the Khmer Rouge, and survivors tend to readily share their stories. But Panh’s film excavates new levels of horror, capturing the grueling tension that existed between jailer and jailed. More than 16,000 people were brought into S21 and tormented until they confessed to involvement with the CIA, KGB or Vietnamese enemies. Then they were put to death. In the film, Nath–who was spared for his talents as a painter–studies stacks of documents and photos of those brought to S21 with him....

Reefs are being hammered by a daunting array of really poor resource-management choices. (One example: fishers in Indonesia and the Philippines use cyanide or dynamite to stun live reef fish–highly prized in Cantonese cuisine and the aquarium trade–then smash the reefs apart to pull the comatose animals from the crevices where they hide.) Less than 1 percent of reefs are protected from such practices worldwide, says Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist at Oregon State University, making strict “no take” marine reserves “the single most useful action we can take” to preserve them....

This guide will talk you through the alternatives, discuss how you can boost your Xbox Series X or S memory (which can seem a little on the… ahem… miserly side), and how you add extra storage to your new console. Let’s dive in. Why Expand Your Xbox Series X or S Storage? The Series X comes with a listed storage capacity of 1 TB, but that number drops to around 800 GB once you factor in system software and so on....

If you get sick on an important day, you might be tempted to just “tough it out.” Pushing through your symptoms when you’re sick makes it harder for your body to get better, but that’s not the only thing you need to think about. You also need to remember that when you are around others when you’re ill, you could get someone else sick. Staying home can protect others, while also giving you a chance to recover....

[HTML1] At this point, every Xbox 360 gamer is well aware that Master Chief will be pulled out of retirement to finish the fight in Halo 4, and it’s unsurprising that fans are very excited to watch the events of the fourth Halo game unfold before their very eyes later this year. The iconic Spartan may be known as a man of few words, but that hasn’t stopped the series’ community from desperately longing to know more about the man behind the mask....

The Roosevelt community is the most challenging of 16 experiments so far in applying the moral-stage theories of the late Harvard educator Lawrence Kohlberg. The group includes about 80 students from the cavernous school of 3,000; they spend a third of each day either in a class oriented to ethical studies or in committees and full community meetings. They don’t make all their own rules, but they can debate anything, and the school lets the group handle its own incidents of fighting, cheating, stealing and other such offenses....

Most teenagers, when they rebel, say they want more freedom. John Walker Lindh rebelled against freedom. He did not demand to express himself in different ways. Quite the opposite. He wanted to be told precisely how to dress, to eat, to think, to pray. He wanted a value system of absolutes, and he was willing to go to extreme lengths to find it. Lindh, who grew up surrounded by upper-middle-class affluence in California, was determined to fit in at the Islamic religious school, an austere one-story building in a tiny village outside the town of Bannu in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan....

Even though the PS Plus revamp date is right around the corner, Sony has yet to provide a comprehensive list of all the games subscribers can expect to see from the service at launch. However, it has provided a sneak peek, revealing some of the games that subscribers to the new PS Plus subscription tiers will get to play. There are certainly some high profile games in the lineup that could very well make it worth the upgrade for some PlayStation gamers, but it’s been pointed out that a lot of the games have already been free through PS Plus at one point or another....