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ROME — Greenpeace on Monday joined the smattering of protests in Venice against the upcoming wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.A half-dozen protesters unfurled a giant banner early Monday in St. Mark’s Square reading: “IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX.” Local police quickly folded it up and took it away.The demonstration followed other anti-Bezos initiatives last week including a banner draped from the San Giorgio bell tower, one from the lagoon city’s famous Rialto Bridge and posters plastered up around town complaining about the upcoming wedding and the effects of…
CHICAGO — Three dozen police captains pair off in a Chicago conference room to play a game: They must start a sentence with the last word their partner used.Many exchanges are nonsensical, full of one-upmanship using difficult words and laughter. But the improvisation game eventually makes sense.“What we are trying to do, is get you to listen to the end of the sentence,” says Kelly Leonard, wrapping up the improvisational exercise. “If my arm was a sentence, when do most people stop listening? Always the elbow! But then you’re missing everything that goes after… and sometimes that’s critical information.”The police…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Finding the balance point between creativity and discipline is trying to bottle lightning especially when your office space is the living room, kitchen table, or garage corner. For Hrishikesh Hirway, the creative genius behind Song Exploder and seasoned remote worker, creativity is not an ephemeral muse but merely him. He explains creativity as that which pleased him most as a child, a way to craft his own island within a world that sometimes didn’t share his inclinations. Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons But as anyone who’s ever tried to…
After all the wheeling, dealing and drafting this offseason, NFL teams have sparked volumes of words, both written and spoken. But sometimes one word says it all. So as the league breaks for the summer, we’re assigning one word to encapsulate what each team has done over the past several months. And we explain why each word sums up where each franchise stands going into the 2025 season. Here’s the breakdown:Atlanta FalconsMishandled: The Falcons could have a big problem if Kirk Cousins is still on the roster come the regular season. What happens if 2024 first-round pick Michael Penix Jr. struggles, and…
[BEIJING] Singapore and China on Monday (Jun 23) inked four agreements on cooperation in areas such as training and knowledge exchange, in a ceremony witnessed by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Chinese Premier Li Qiang. This was on the first full day of PM Wong’s introductory visit to China, which is from Jun 22 to 26. One memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on Monday will see the joint development of legal talent. Under the MOU, trainees nominated by Singapore’s law ministry and China’s justice ministry will attend postgraduate law programmes in each other’s law schools. They will also take part in courses conducted…
NEW YORK — Taylor Mac does not set out to bite the hand that feeds in a new play satirizing cultural philanthropy. The MacArthur “genius grant” recipient claims to be “just trying to get some lipstick on it.”Set at a not-for-profit dance company’s gala, “Prosperous Fools” invites questions about the moral value of philanthropy in a society denounced by the comedy as “feudal.” A boorish patron goes mad trying vainly to wield his lacking creative capital and thus confirms the choreographer’s fears of selling out to a sleazy oligarch who represents everything his art opposes. The show, written by Mac…
LONDON :Oil prices oscillated on Monday, touching a five-month high before erasing most gains as oil and gas transit continued on tankers from the Middle East after U.S. airstrikes against Iran at the weekend. Brent crude futures were up 16 cents, or 0.2 per cent, at $77.17 a barrel by 1307 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 14 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $73.98. U.S. President Donald Trump said he had “obliterated” Iran’s main nuclear sites in strikes over the weekend, joining an Israeli assault in an escalation of conflict in the Middle East as Tehran vowed to…
The government’s industrial strategy aims to harness the best of British business, from automotive to video gaming via the City and life sciences, in order to deliver the economic growth on which all else depends. A year in the planning with a 10-year horizon for delivery, in its final months it was hijacked by a very short-term issue; how to give industries battered by the highest electricity prices in the world a chance of competing now, never mind the 2030s. The answer, as reported by Sky News last week, is a significant cut to bills not just for “energy intensive…
Endometriosis is often brushed off as “just painful periods.” But for many women, it’s much more—chronic pain, missed work, years without answers. These things stick in your mind. And for some, a deeper fear lingers: can endometriosis cause cancer? The fear is real and understandable. Endometriosis isn’t cancer. But research shows some ties between this condition and certain cancer risks. That doesn’t mean everyone with endometriosis will get cancer. It does mean that you need to understand the risks and know what to look for. Staying informed gives you control. And it helps you make decisions that protect your body…
Alexi Lalas, Landon Donovan and the “FOX Soccer” crew broke down the 2-1 victory for the United States against Haiti.