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Editor’s note: “Five C’s for Fever the Five” was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post on November 30, 1935. The boys in Mufti Joe’s place had just returned from a fortunate crap game in the Shore hotel down the street. Now they were sitting around the pool hall in various attitudes of relaxation. Fever …
It’s official: The oldest man currently living on this planet is 112. Born in Japan on July 25, 1905, Masazo Nonaka was 112 years and 259 days old on the day the “Guinness Book of World Records” awarded him the title. The former record-holder was Francisco Nunez Olivera of Spain, who passed away in January at the …
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My brother is the lowest scum on the earth, no wait, lower than low. He’s a knuckle-dragging, thumb-sucking, nail-biting slimeball so subterranean worms don’t even dare to wiggle their way so far down! I hate the little creep. “Mom!” I paused, waiting for her to respond to my anguished cry. Nothing. Whatever happened to maternal …
March, 2017. Kelebija, Serbia. Newly-built Hungarian detention camp for migrants at the Serbian-Hungarian border. Krystian Maj/ Press Association. All rights reserved.On May 23, 2016 Abdullah, a 26 year old man from Afghanistan crossed the border from Serbia to Hungary. He managed to break through the razor wire reinforced border fence Hungary had just erected in …
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EDITOR’S NOTE Please see a doctor before starting or stopping a medication. To find out what you should know before stopping medication, head here. If you live with a mental illness and taking psychiatric medication is part of your treatment plan, you might be familiar with some of the seemingly “harmless” but incredibly hurtful things people …
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It was the third time he threw his plastic into the garbage instead of the nearby recycling bin that I knew with a sudden certainty that Dave Holden from accounting was going straight to hell. I wasn’t sure what hell, exactly, but whatever his spiritual persuasion, he sure wasn’t bound for paradise. The polyethylene terephthalate …
US President Donald Trump greeted by former US President Barack Obama after delivering his inaugural address. Xinhua/Press Association. All rights reserved. Identity politics has become the driving force of US politics and it has brought along the scourge of ethno-nationalism. But to many of us living outside the United States, it’s nothing new. Take a …
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White ballet slippers symbolize childhood for Mela Softic. She grew up during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. Her memories of youth are those of war. “Dancing was something that helped me survive [the] war,” said Softic, who was 8 years old when the war broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1992. The …
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Barkley’s Girl wallowed in the backwater of Harmony Bay, tied to a pier. Barnacles and seaweed clung to her red-bottomed hull. Sea lions often slept on her open deck, and pelicans sunned themselves on her wheelhouse. She’d never been pretty, fast, or built to motor beyond the harbor’s mouth. But all the other boats in …
Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini June 2018. Zucchi/Press Association. All rights reserved. Viktor Orbán’s battle against NGOs and Soros is well known, as is his admiration for some of Putin’s policies and for his model of ‘sovereign democracy’. In June 2017, the approval of a law providing for a special register for some NGOs …
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