This is a woman playing golf. This is a man playing golf. It sure seems like they’re playing the same sport, huh? You’d think the expectations surrounding their attire would reflect that, but a new controversial email sent out by the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has thrown that into question. And people definitely have …
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Premises of community -run radio Radio Mandu'arä, in the remote rural east of Paraguay. Photo: Toby Hill. All rights reserved. For 14 years, Juan Aveiro broadcast Radio Mandu’arã to a cluster of communities in a remote corner of eastern Paraguay. He and his team of volunteer journalists worked from a makeshift studio painted pink. On …
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Millennials are sometimes stereotyped as the “pics or it didn’t happen” generation — folks who only go places so they can post selfies online to prove they were there. But a chance to strike a pose in the stacks probably isn’t what makes libraries more popular with Americans ages 18-35 than with any other group of …
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Mushroom cloud from UK Air Support Bombing, Afghanistan. Photo: POA/Sean Clee. Last week, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced the publication of the government’s first Annual Report on its National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR 2015). Given the current international climate, this is an important exercise. The report is potentially a …
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Puigdemont plans to go ahead with a new referendum on independence by September despite a ruling by Spain's Constitutional Court banning the vote. Manu Fernandez /Press Association. All rights reserved. It can sometimes be sensible to revisit oneself. Especially in this ever-changing and ever-deceiving world of ours. Just to remind ourselves, and our readers, that …
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Minor league baseball teams are long known to resort to wacky gimmicks (Hawaiian shirts, Trump themes, even just being generally “awful”) to drive attendance, but one team is finding itself without an excuse for a promoted theme night that critics are accusing of being sexist. The Ogden Raptors (Utah), a Dodger rookie league team recently sent out the …
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Hasan Jamali/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.On Friday, September 23, the inaugural combat sports event entitled Brave Combat Federation (BCF) is taking place in Khalifa Sports City in Isa Town, Bahrain. The event, which features a headlining bout between Iraq’s Rami Aziz and Jordan’s Abdulkareem Selwady, represents the small Island kingdom’s attempt to become a …
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When legendary slugger Albert Pujols decides to walk away from Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, he’ll already have his second career carved out for him. With his wife, Deidre, leading the charge, Pujols has dedicated plenty of funds and time to a variety of causes through his family foundation. Their latest initiative is Strike …
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Junior UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen has never been shy about airing his opinions, whether it’s pointing out the tortuous logic employed by the NCAA to defend amateurism or pinging the president. He does so even if unnamed scouts and UCLA head coach Jim Mora have already started to whisper that maybe the best course of action …
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Ada Colau, leader of leftist coalition Barcelona Together, holds her baton, having been elected Barcelona's new mayor, Spain, June, 2015. Emilio Morenatti / Press Association. All rights reserved.Rosemary Bechler(RB): We were lucky enough to catch your contribution to the BREXIT debate in a meeting at the TUC and more recently in the DiEM25 launch panel …
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