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Is it right behind the bowler’s arm atop the sight-screen or is it the top tier behind the fielder at deep square-leg or is it on the edge of the fence at long-off. Every fan has a personal favourite, depending on the ticket price of course. But imagine watching a day-night cricket match from the roof of a stadium. Sounds unreal? Not anymore. The Adelaide Oval is now providing fans an opportunity to view the ongoing Test match between Australia and South Africa from the roof of one of its grandstands....

It’s the stuff of nightmares–and now a powerful film as well. The British-made documentary “Touching the Void” re-creates the ordeal of two young British climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who were trapped on the flank of Siula Grande, a forbidding Peruvian peak, back in 1985. So how was the moral crisis resolved? The thousands who read Simpson’s best-selling memoir, also called “Touching the Void,” will already know: Yates cut the rope....

Nifty story, but is that what happened in Baghdad on June 29? Discerning truth from fantasy in postwar Iraq is never easy. The Bush administration was leery about preliminary reports of a failed coup, even though officials are hungry for a return on their covert program to de-stabilize Saddam. For more than a week after Iraqi dissidents claimed Saddam had been attacked, official Washington declined to confirm that there was any basis at all to the reports....

They contact me by phone or letter. If they can’t write, a relative will do it for them. I ask them to enclose medical documentation of their problem. Then I evaluate the records myself. I go over them with my assistant, who’s a medical technologist and has some medical expertise, for some more input. We go to the patient’s house, with the patient’s friends and relatives there, whoever the patient wants, with my two assistants....

The Kelsos drove the boy to the Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Dela., authorities say. There, Dawn Kelso took Steven into the lobby. She told a staffer her son should be admitted and, when the aide went to find a doctor, Kelso and her husband allegedly disappeared. Police said she left food, clothing, some of Steven’s toys–and a note stating that “she could no longer care for her child....

This is a world without rules. You won’t discover whether one country should become involved in the affairs of another by reading the United Nations Charter, and now that the cold war is over it’s hard to deduce whether intervention is justified by a search for that holy grail, “the national interest.” “We are confronted with 10 or 20 situations,” U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told Newsweek. “To solve them costs only 2 or 3 percent of what the cold war cost....

title: “A Fine Mess” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-05” author: “Gilbert Hainley”

That life becomes a hot odyssey of jazz in scenes vibrating with music, dance, humor and sensuality. The New Orleans-born Jelly is cast out by his Creole family, hightoned mixed-bloods who scorn Jelly’s lowdown music. A Paul Bunyanish braggart who boasts, “I invented jazz,” Jelly is a dandy, a pool hustler, a womanizer who bounces around the country sowing the seeds of the new music. He flares into stardom as composer and pianist, a stardom that flames out in the 1930s as the country is “swingin’ to a whole new sound” - the big-band sound of Ellington and Basie....

Simply called the “Gaming Mattress,” the setup is a “high quality urethane mattress that supports the sleeping environment of gamers” according to the product’s webpage. It’s being made by Bauhutte, which produces a number of other pieces of gaming furniture, though those are far more conventional gaming chairs and desks. Although not all of the company’s products are that simple, as it produces comfy gaming clothes too. RELATED: Corsair Sabre RGB Pro Wireless Mouse Review...

Dozens of big companies have already laid off workers this year, and now a growing number–Polaroid, Dell, 3Com and Nortel among them–are swinging the ax again. And they’re aiming not just at factories, but at their white-collar workers. Executives blame false optimism and the murky nature of this slowdown, which has been characterized by a wild mix of up-and-down economic stats. “When they looked in their crystal balls several months ago, they were hoping for a V-shaped turnaround–a quick downturn and a quick uptick,” says Tom Silveri, president of the outplacement firm Drake Beam Morin....

Diabetic retinopathy screenings are essential. Screening can tell you if you need treatment to slow the progression of vision loss. Read more about what diabetic retinopathy is, how screenings work, and the diagnostic and treatment process. What Is Diabetic Retinopathy? Diabetic retinopathy can occur when there is damage to the small blood vessels in a part of the eye called the retina. High blood sugar levels cause this damage in people with diabetes....

The world’s obsession with Guitar Hero eventually faded, likely due to franchise fatigue, but there are many that look back on the series fondly. Millennials in particular have strong feelings about Guitar Hero and the peripheral music/rhythm game fad of the mid-2000s, as many were teenagers or young adults at the time. Some may still have their plastic guitar controllers that they bring out from time to time to relive Guitar Hero’s glory days, but others have likely sold their instruments, games, and the older consoles needed to play them long ago....

Debuting in 2005, Avatar: The Last Airbender thrusts audiences into an anime-inspired world, full of characters who are capable of manipulating one of four elements, such as Katara, Avatar’s leading waterbender. While previous Nickelodeon shows had overarching plots and character development, none did it quite so elegantly as Avatar: The Last Airbender, and its high level of quality is what’s kept it so popular today. But where there’s popularity also comes spin-offs and adaptations, and Avatar: The Last Airbender has had plenty of those, some of which have been video games....

There is a point, about halfway into “The Innocent,” when you stop noticing how clever a writer Ian McEwan is. It doesn’t matter anymore that he dawdles strategically at the end of a chapter, slumping briefly into the passive voice. It’s no longer impressive how he knowingly manipulates the boy-meets-girl, spy-versusspy conventions of his story, like a smart kid showing off at the blackboard. After an extraordinary scene where a woman’s dress catches fire, none of McEwan’s adroit writerly bits mean a thing....

The leak for the Star Fox 2 game shows gave us a glimpse of the early designs that have a different co-pilot line-up. What is striking in the new designs is that one of them is a human woman. With incredibly beautiful hair, the woman pilot has stirred the gaming enthusiasts considering the absence of humans across the rest of the Star Fox series and it will be certainly interesting to see a human woman here....

Now, it seems the Kingdom Hearts franchise is once again branching out to another platform: television. Several rumors have come out stating that a Kingdom Hearts show is being produced for the Disney Plus streaming platform. None of these reports and rumors have been confirmed by sources, but several similar rumors are now corroborating with one another. The ending to Kingdom Hearts’ Xehanort Saga was a long time coming, but assuming this purported TV series intends to continue the story after Kingdom Hearts 3, it wouldn’t be necessary even if the show is either a retelling or a canon sequel to the franchise....

Yet here in this small Southern town of 16,000–hardly a launch pad for social revolution–there was still some sorting-out to do. What behavior is appropriate for elementary-school kids, and what for the administrators entrusted with their care? Buchanan and nearly 100 neighbors crammed into a hastily scheduled school-board meeting. The board conceded that its sexual-harassment policy needed some tinkering, to take into account the age of the kids. But most came to support the policy, not to mock it....

The Red Devils men have lost three of their opening four home fixtures in the Premier League. This leaves Solskjaer in a tricky position as a lot of people want “a bigger name” in the dugout at Old Trafford, according to Paul Parker. Manchester United hired Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as an interim manager after the sacking of Jose Mourinho in 2018 and later offered him a three-year contract on a permanent basis....

Unlike most modern economists, the University of Chicago law professor avoids complex mathematics; his works, although highly theoretical, are written in plain English. In the 1960 paper that made his reputation, “The Problem of Social Cost,” Coase used the example of a rancher whose cattle sometimes stray and eat the corn of the adjacent farmer. So long as they can negotiate, the rancher and the farmer can solve their problem privately....