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Why Fast Food Is Racing to Ditch the Dining Room Five hours into a long drive through New England last week, I needed coffee. I pulled up to a Dunkin’ in Gorham, New Hampshire, parked, and got out of the car. Mistake. In the donut-scented interior, I learned that this Dunkin’ wasn’t taking orders in the store—only at the drive-thru and via the app. Reluctantly, I downloaded Dunkin’, selected a large cold brew, tapped in my credit card number, and watched in silence as two workers prepared and placed the coffee on the largely obsolete counter. Continued here

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The Economist Who Knows the Miracle Is Over The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity—about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small planet to building a kind of utopia on it—and he saw an inflection point centuries after the emergence of capitalism and decades after the advent of manufacturing at scale. “The Industrial Revolution is good. The Industrial Revolution is huge,” he explained to me recently, sitting on the back porch of his wood-clad Colonial Revival in Berkeley, California. But “as of 1870, things have not really changed that much for most people.” Soon after that, though—after the development of the vertically integrated corporation, the industrial research lab, modern communication devices, and modular shipping technologies—“everything changes in a generation, and then changes again, and again, and again, and again.” Global growth increases fourfold. The world breaks out of near-universal agrarian poverty. Modernity takes hold. Continued here

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Heat in Europe Is Driving Up Olive Oil Prices Nearly half of the world’s olive oil is produced in Spain, with the U.S. one of the country’s largest export markets. Prices of most edible oils are already high after the war in Ukraine led to shortages of sunflower oil, prompting buyers to seek alternatives for use in cooking and as an ingredient in food products. Continued here

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Your Work Is Not Your God: Welcome to the Age of the Burnout Epidemic Billionaire tech-industry titans brag about their hundred-hour work weeks, even though their labor isn’t what boosts their companies’ stock prices and enriches them further. Americans with advanced degrees have the highest average earning power, but typically work more and spend less time on leisure than people with less formal education. The children of rich parents are twice as likely to have summer jobs as poor kids are. And many older American professionals with plenty saved for retirement keep showing up at the office. Continued here

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Why Companies Are So Interested in Your Myers-Briggs Type - JSTOR Daily If you’ve looked for a job recently, you’ve probably encountered the personality test. You may also have wondered if it was backed by scientific research. Continued here

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Ultra-processed foods linked to heart disease, cancer, and death, studies show Dr. Fang Fang Zhang is an associate professor and chair of the Division of Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and corresponding author and co-senior author of the colorectal cancer study. Continued here

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How Dentists Keep Their Own Teeth Healthy Two dentists share their daily dental hygiene tips. Continued here

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Shoes Are Banned In My House—But I Have One Very Important Exception As someone fighting a Sisyphean battle to keep my home clean (cat hair notwithstanding), I have declared shoes public enemy number one. The soles of your shoes harbor more grossness than you might think. There's the obvious stuff — your garden variety dirt, grass, leaves, grime, debris, and liquids from various unknown sources. But then there are the remnants from the floor of your office, car, or any stray grocery store, coffee shop, or public restroom you wander into before you appear at my door. And don't get me started on the unholy level of filth on the sidewalk and street of this country's great cities and urban areas (like the one where I live). Continued here

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Scientists finally know why we get distracted -- When psychologist Jonathan Smallwood set out to study mind-wandering about 25 years ago, few of his peers thought that was a very good idea. How could one hope to investigate these spontaneous and unpredictable thoughts that crop up when people stop paying attention to their surroundings and the task at hand? Thoughts that couldn’t be linked to any measurable outward behavior? Continued here

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Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness Years ago, when I had my first media interview about my research on humility, the interviewer was curious whether studying humility actually made me any humbler. She asked me to poll my wife, to see how humble she perceived me to be. When I solicited my ranking from one to 10, my wife gave me a four. Continued here

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Forgive Yourself. It's Good for You. What's the last little mistake you made? Are you still beating yourself up about it? If you're still holding onto guilt and shame, you're not alone, and there's nothing wrong with you. We all tend to ruminate on the bad. And actually, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Emotions like guilt, especially, are indicator emotions: letting us know something isn't right, and reminding us what our true values are. But so often we punish ourselves, and that can hold us back from showing up for ourselves and others in the way we want to. Continued here

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You may qualify for over $10,000 in climate incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act. Here's when you can claim them The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Aug. 16, represents the largest federal investment to fight climate change in U.S. history. Among other measures, the law offers financial incentives to consumers who buy high-efficiency appliances, purchase electric cars or install rooftop solar panels, for example. Continued here

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Our other real estate problem - people have too much wealth tied up in houses An Ipsos poll of 18,000 people documents how much of this country’s total household assets are tied up in real estate. For all Canadians, it’s 77 per cent. Generationally, real estate’s share of assets ranges from lows of 68 per cent for seniors and 71 per cent for boomers to a high of 89 per cent for the young adults of Gen Z. Continued here

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The best secret Android settings, and how to enable them Get useful information within seconds with these codes. Continued here

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Smart Streetlights are Casting a Long Shadow Over Our Cities - Failed Architecture Major cities across the US are introducing smart streetlights with the promise they'll provide safer and more sustainable public spaces. But behind th... Continued here

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The End of Kiwi Farms, the Web's Most Notorious Stalker Site On the morning of August 5, in London, Ontario, police put an assault rifle in Clara Sorrenti's face. Sorrenti is a trans activist and Twitch streamer who provides political commentary under the handle Keffals. Earlier that morning, an impersonator had sent an email to city councillors claiming that Sorrenti had killed her mother and would soon go to City Hall to shoot every cisgender person she saw. "When I was woken up by police officers and saw the assault rifle pointed at me, I thought I was going to die," Sorrenti later recounted in a video on YouTube. "I feel traumatized." Continued here

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Major sea-level rise caused by melting of Greenland ice cap is 'now inevitable' The research shows the global heating to date will cause an absolute minimum sea-level rise of 27cm (10.6in) from Greenland alone as 110tn tonnes of ice melt. With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other ice caps and thermal expansion of the ocean, a multi-metre sea-level rise appears likely. Continued here

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Lost Cities and Climate Change Not far from my grandmother's house is a ghost city. At Angel Mounds on the Ohio river about eight miles southeast of Evansville, there are a few visible earthworks and a reconstructed wattle-and-daub barrier. There is almost nothing left of the people who build these mounds; in a final insulting erasure, the site is now named after the white settler family who most recently farmed the land. Continued here

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The Debate Over Muslim College Students Getting Secret Marriages In July, Adeel Zeb, the Muslim chaplain for the Claremont Colleges, near Los Angeles, posted on Facebook about something that was bothering him. “I have been approached by multiple Muslim couples recently to perform / lead their ‘secret nikkah (secret Islamic traditional marriage),’ ” he wrote. These students told him that they had fallen into haram, or sin, by having sex outside of marriage, which is prohibited by Islam. They wanted to get right with God by getting married—but they wanted to do so without telling their parents. Zeb described their thinking: “In the short term, I can exercise my passion, and in the long term I won’t go to hell.” Continued here

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Inside Balmoral Castle, the Queen's beloved Scottish home Queen Elizabeth II had been visiting her beloved holiday home Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire since she was a child. Set within the Cairngorms National Park on the banks of the River Dee, it was reportedly her favourite residence for its green, wide-open spaces, the beauty of which she could enjoy away from the public eye. It also enabled her to enjoy a more ordinary kind of family life: reportedly, Prince Philip used to enjoy manning the barbecue, while the Queen would put on rubber gloves and do the washing up, before gathering to play after-dinner parlour games. Continued here

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'Bet on me': How rookie Julio Rodriguez became the Mariners' $470 million man Minor league spring training can be long and arduous, with early wake-up times and heavy conditioning before players even pick up a bat or a glove. Rodriguez got his first taste of it in 2019, less than two years after signing out of the Dominican Republic. But he quickly carved out a routine. After his day was finished, he'd walk to the main field of Peoria Sports Complex, stand against a brick wall on the walkway behind home plate and watch the major league spring training game with noticeable intent -- backpack on his back, brim of his cap pulled down above his eyes, a budding superstar hiding in plain sight. Continued here

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The clout of Ohtani Shohei, Japan's greatest baseball star Only two players in the history of American baseball have hit 100 home runs and pitched 400 strikeouts. One was Babe Ruth, the American folk hero of the early 20th century. The other, as of September 3rd, is a modest young man from Iwate, a rural prefecture in northern Japan, called Ohtani Shohei. Continued here

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A Dance to the Music of Time The life of pioneering choreographer Martha Graham – Claudia La Rocco Continued here

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Panic at the Library | Brian Michael Murphy The sinister history of fumigating “foreign” books. Continued here

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You've been storing your “good” butter the wrong way I first learned to really love butter in a suburban diner called Corfu. Located about 45 miles outside of Chicago, the restaurant looked like someone had gutted an old Denny's, saved the furniture and then painted a large-scale mural of coastal Greece before finally putting the chairs and tables back on the dining room floor. Continued here

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Greek Salmon Recipe For topping1/4 c. extra-virgin olive oilJuice of 2 lemons1 clove garlic, minced1 tsp. dried oregano1/2 tsp. red pepper flakesFreshly ground black pepper1 c. cubed feta1 c. quartered tomatoes or halved cherry tomatoes1/4 c. sliced kalamata olives1/4 c. chopped Persian cucumbers 1/4 chopped red onion 2 tbsp. freshly chopped dill Continued here

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Free Video Games You Can Download Right Now When it comes to free video games, you might think of some kind of ad-filled, microtransaction-riddled thing on your phone or PC. But it’s likely you’ve been missing out on free, great, full-featured video games for years. If you’ve ever played Fortnite on your PC, developer and publisher Epic Games has been trying to give you other games for free since the end of 2018. Whether you own a PlayStation, Xbox, or a gaming PC, accounts or memberships you probably already have regularly give away full-length games on a monthly or weekly basis. These games offer great opportunities to break out of your comfort zones and try new genres. We’ve compiled a list of all the titles you can get your hands on right now (or very soon) if you have an active PlayStation Plus, Xbox Live Gold, or Amazon Prime subscription, or if you’ve signed up for a free account from Epic Games. Continued here

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My rediscovered Game Boy Advance is a time machine I don't want to get out of I recently moved into a new house and faced that most terrifying of prospects: a few days without internet access. On top of all the other dependencies that this enriching, vile invention has created in us, all the games I've been playing required patches, updates, or someone to play against. I was - gulp - gameless! Continued here

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Should I Prevent My Daughter From Playing With Our Evangelical Neighbors? Parenting advice on evangelical neighbors, body image, and gifts. Continued here

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The Morning Rush To School Is Parenting At Its Most Essential I get nostalgic for summer well before its end. While every week is different, each with its own particular rhythms — mostly morning camps and afternoon play dates with a rotating cast of friends and neighbors — I let myself give into the season’s languid pace. I sunbathe topless on our patio and take rare, indulgent 20-minute morning showers. Who cares if my little one gets to preschool late today, tomorrow? Why not let the kids watch a movie and stay up late, seeing as the sun doesn't set until 10 p.m.? What’s the harm, really, of having three popsicles every day? Continued here

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How Ukraine's New Offensive Could Win the War Against Russia Paul Poast of the University of Chicago returns to the podcast to break down Ukraine’s extraordinary counteroffensive Continued here

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Ukraine's offensive in the east surprised Russia -- and it may be a turning point in the war Seeking to press their advantage, Ukrainian troops on Monday kept pushing deeper into territory previously controlled by Russian forces. Continued here

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The Best Fall Trips and Activities in Each of the 50 States We’ve gathered together a fun fall attraction in each state to help you plan your next trip. If you don’t want to travel far, you can find your home state’s special fall offering and take a mini-roadtrip. And if we’ve left our your own favorite fall activity or attraction, let us know in the comments.(Click on the “all slides” option in the upper right corner of any article page for a quick access link to the state[s] of your choosing.) Continued here

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How did Pearson airport's delays get so bad? Inside the patchwork system that failed to stop the crisis They bore the brunt of the near shutdown of the aviation industry. Tens of thousands of pilots, flight attendants, security screeners and baggage handlers were suddenly out of work when passenger travel all but vanished during the early days of the pandemic. Many of them left the industry for good. Continued here

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Five Mistakes Boards Make When Thinking About Purpose When it comes to the topic of Purpose in business, Boards have a crucial role to play in unleashing its power.Boards need to rethink the social contract that exists between business and society for long-term survival. Adapting to the challenging needs of society and being interconnected with them, while balancing the needs of shareholders, to serve ALL stakeholders.track your preferences, and analyze traffic. Forbes may share this information with its advertising, analytics, and social media partners, who may use itwith information you have provided to them in connection with their services. Continued here

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Be A Good Leader, Be A Good Person: It’s Not A Binary Choice And it always occurs in the context of “what’s happening now.” Today’s context includes a global pandemic. Economic turmoil. Civil, political and social unrest. And a multitude of other things that influence people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Continued here

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Could the demonised oil industry become a force for decarbonisation? When warren buffett was asked to explain in April why Berkshire Hathaway, his investment firm, had built a 14% stake in Occidental Petroleum, or Oxy, over a frenetic fortnight of buying starting two months earlier, his answer was long. It included a digression into John Maynard Keynes’s “General Theory” of 1936, and a rollicking description of why Wall Street still resembles a gambling parlour, as it did back then. He barely mentioned the Houston-based oil company, now worth $69bn, besides saying that he had read Oxy’s annual report for 2021 and that Vicki Hollub, its boss, “made nothing but sense”. The pithiest explanation came from Charlie Munger, Mr Buffett’s long-standing sidekick: “We found some things we preferred owning to treasury bills.” Continued here

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Dream job: the Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world's largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Continued here

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India is quietly laying claim to economic superpower status You won’t find mention of it in Liz Truss’s blueprint for a “modern brilliant Britain”, but the UK has just been overtaken by India as the world’s fifth biggest economy. The nation of 1.4 billion people is on track to move into third place behind the US and China by 2030, according to economists. Continued here

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The Professional Try-Hard Is Dead, But You Still Need to Return to the Office During my first job in media in the late 2010s, I was a glorified PowerPoint assembler on a magazine’s marketing team, where we spent our days figuring out what kinds of stories and topic areas corporate brands liked to put their advertising next to. One of the most popular themes was what we slickly called “The Future of Work”—a catchphrase cribbed from the marketing and MBA-swinging circles invested in forecasting all the exciting ways corporate life would change amidst peak millennialification of the workforce. We knew advertisers loved the idea of fashioning themselves as part of this revolution, and I still remember how I’d decorate those PowerPoints with stock images of ultramodern office spaces and stylish, suited figures in carefully varied skin tones. It never occurred to me, or my colleagues, or these brands, to wonder if the real future of work might actually look like something far more radical. Continued here

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10 Mobility Moves To Do Now for Fitness Longevity Today, Tomorrow, and for Decades To Come On this week’s episode of Good Moves, Nike master trainer Traci Copeland leads you through a 12-minute workout that you can easily keep in your back pocket for years of workouts to come. “Today is all about mobility,” she says in the video. “We’re going to do a mobility flow that’s going to feel sort of like yoga. It’s perfect to do before or after a workout.” Continued here

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A cardiologist shares the 5 foods she eats to lower cholesterol—and keep her 'heart healthy' Dr. Elizabeth Klodas is a cardiologist and founder of Step One Foods. Trained at Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, Dr. Klodas has published dozens of scientific articles throughout her career, authored a book for patients, "Slay the Giant: The Power of Prevention in Defeating Heart Disease" and served as founding editor-in-chief of Cardiosmart.org. Continued here

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Can't Do a Pull-up? Here's Where to Start. These moves will help you safely progress until you’ve got the exercise down Continued here

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I talked to 70 parents of highly successful adults—here are 5 phrases they always said to their kids Margot Machol Bisnow is a writer, mom and parenting coach. She spent 20 years in government, including as an FTC Commissioner and Chief of Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and is the author of "Raising an Entrepreneur: How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dream." Follow her on Instagram @MargotBisnow. Continued here

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In Defence Of Letting Some Friendships Go and Putting Yourself First Sometimes, the best way to love someone is to let them go. And sometimes, the best way to love yourself is a clean and final friendship breakup. Continued here

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'I'm in a very lucky position': I will receive a $300,000 inheritance. Should I pay off my mortgage or invest the money? Of course, a lot of it has to do with luck. Let's take a moment: The 30-year mortgage rate is over 5.5% currently. The consumer price index rose 8.5% in July from a year earlier, and the closely watched "core" measure of inflation — excluding volatile food and energy — was hovering at 5.9%. With a 2.5% interest rate, you are already making money simply by living your life.  Continued here

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The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit None of it ever seemed or felt like much of a problem to him—that is, until the pandemic. The previous year, his home state of Illinois had legalized sports betting and expanded casino gambling, flooding the state with advertisements. It didn’t take long before Jason was hearing about gambling “all day every day,” he said. When he started to go through personal issues at home in 2020, he found himself at the casino trying to burn off some steam.  Continued here

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Google's image-scanning illustrates how tech firms can penalise the innocent | John Naughton Here's a hypothetical scenario. You're the parent of a toddler, a little boy. His penis has become swollen because of an infection and it's hurting him. You phone the GP's surgery and eventually get through to the practice's nurse. The nurse suggests you take a photograph of the affected area and email it so that she can consult one of the doctors. Continued here

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Brand new iPhone features that Android already has But we live in a competitive society, and so the one company that produces iOS-based phones and the myriad brands that make Android-based phones always feel that they need to explain why their product is more spectacular, more flexible, more secure, more fun, and more whatever than the ones powered by the other OS. As a result, whenever a company introduces a feature that’s new to its OS, it proclaims it as innovative, wonderful, and never seen before. Anyone who has attended or watched a product introduction — from Apple, Google, or Samsung — knows what I’m talking about. Continued here

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Study reveals striking differences in brains of modern humans and Neanderthals The study involved inserting a Neanderthal brain gene into mice, ferrets and “mini brain” structures called organoids, grown in the lab from human stem cells. The experiments revealed that the Neanderthal version of the gene was linked to slower creation of neurons in the brain’s cortex during development, which scientists said could explain superior cognitive abilities in modern humans. Continued here

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How the hollow-Earth hypothesis illuminates falsifiable science | Aeon Essays Is Earth inside the Universe, or vice versa? Since we can grasp only a model of reality, how do we know what’s real? Continued here

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All the Queens of England and how long they reigned A devout Protestant, it was during Anne’s reign that Great Britain was created by the Union of England and Scotland, and all subsequent monarchs ruled England, Wales, and Scotland, and some channel islands, rather than just England. Ireland was not included under British rule until 1801, when the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created, restricted to Northern Ireland in 1921. Continued here

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10 of the most legendary rulers from ancient history A lot of people can be rather dismissive of ancient history, even using the term to refer to past events so remote as to be irrelevant. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the events and decisions made in antiquity continue to influence us to this day. To explore this, we’ll look at 10 of the most legendary rulers of ancient history, what they did, and why their decisions still matter. Continued here

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Serena Williams and the myth of passing the torch NEW YORK -- On the grounds at Wimbledon years ago, tennis was once described to me as "boxing without the punches." The game may be more associated with the upper class and its country clubs, strawberries and cream and tea socials, but the analogy is nevertheless true: With the exception of boxing, there is no other sport as viscerally clear and unsentimental about victory and defeat. Two fighters. No help. No timeouts. No teammates. One winner. Continued here

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The impact of India's growing sports tourism market on football “Visa has never been a problem at any of these World Cups. There are some communication issues due to which I faced problems in South Africa and in Brazil, but it was never a problem to get a visa,” he said. “But, we [Pai and his brother] didn’t know that at the time. Only when we got the visa, we realised ‘Oh, the process is so simple’.” Continued here