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Miracle On Ice was unforgettable night 40 years ago that ended with phone call to Mike Eruzione’s home
USA TODAY Sports - Tom D’Angelo
The night started like so many others in newsrooms across the country. By the end, newspapers were scrambling to figure out how to handle the most iconic moment in our nation’s sports history. It was years
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The ‘Friends’ reunion special is happening. And yes, every cast member is on board
Los Angeles Times - Christi Carras
Here’s some news to cheer you up if it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month or even your year. HBO Max announced on Friday that a “Friends” reunion special is coming to the streaming service when
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Why the lights are going out for fireflies
The Guardian - Michael Marshall
At dusk, graduate student Sara Lewis was sitting on her back porch in North Carolina with her dog. “We were supposed to be mowing our grass, but we never did, so we had long grass in our yard,” she recalls.
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Inside the New York City Bodegas Going Viral on TikTok
The New York Times - Aaron Randle
Inside the New York City Bodegas Going Viral on TikTok The short video clip is filmed from behind a store counter. “If you get this question right,” the cameraman, a store clerk, can be heard telling customer,
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‘We’re in a Petri Dish’: How a Coronavirus Ravaged a Cruise Ship
The New York Times - Motoko Rich
YOKOHAMA, Japan — The captain came over the intercom early in the evening: A passenger who had left the ship nine days earlier had tested positive for the new coronavirus sweeping through China. While
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Technology
Mourning Rootitoot, the Happiest Place on the Internet
theringer.com - Katie Baker
The happiest place on the internet, for a time, was a private Facebook group run by a 63-year-old Canadian grandma named Ruth who shared Instant Pot …
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Sports
Where Is My Mind?
The Players' Tribune - By Ben Gordon
There was a point in time when I thought about killing myself every single day for about six weeks. I would be up on the roof of my apartment building …
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Science
Nine Rare Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling For
smithsonianmag.com - Emily Matchar
In mid-February, if conditions are utterly perfect—good light, plenty of water, clear skies—Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Falls, for a moment …
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Millennials
Oh No, They’ve Come Up With Another Generation Label
The Atlantic - Joe Pinsker
How much do members of “Generation Alpha,” or any generation, really have in common? The cutoff for being born into Generation X was about 1980, the cutoff for Generation Y (a.k.a. the Millennials) was
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What Would Happen if Trump Refused to Leave Office?
The Atlantic - Barbara McQuade
A peaceful transfer of power is necessary for American democracy to survive. If Donald Trump is defeated in November 2020, his presidency will end on January 20, 2021. If he is reelected, then, barring
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Zion Williamson Is More Than a Walking Mixtape
The New Yorker - Louisa Thomas
In his annual remarks on the state of the National Basketball Association, at last weekend’s All-Star Game, in Chicago, Adam Silver, the league’s commissioner—a slender, bespectacled man known for his
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Politics
Harry Reid Misses George W. Bush and Always Kind of Liked Bernie Sanders
The New Yorker - Eric Lach
Harry Reid was rarely accused of being charismatic in his public life. But he told people what he thought. He called George W. Bush a “loser,” Clarence Thomas an “embarrassment,” and Alan Greenspan a He
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Creative Writing
Black Romance Novels Matter Too
shondaland.com - By Carole V. Bell
With the notable exception of Shondaland, even the most acclaimed, topical and popular romance novels by black writers tend to be overlooked and …
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Lifestyle
If Mercury Retrograde Is Already Ruining Your Life, Read This
Self - Patia Braithwaite
Some people (like me, an easily frazzled Gemini) count cracked iPhones, awkward conversations, and inconvenient transportation delays as part of …
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News
Dry February sends California back to drought: 'This hasn't happened in 150 years'
Guardian US - Susie Cagle
San Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of the wettest months of the year
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Culture
Pleas of Insanity: The Mysterious Case of Anthony Montwheeler
Rolling Stone - Rob Fischer
On the morning of January 9th, 2017, Anthony Montwheeler kidnapped his ex-wife Annita Harmon near her home in Weiser, Idaho, and drove 20 miles …
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Opinion
'Miracle on Ice' team captain: America's underdog Olympic victory is still one of the greatest sports stories ever
Fox News - Mike Eruzione
Say those three words, millions of people across the country know exactly what you’re referring to: Feb. 22, 1980, when the U.S. Olympic hockey team shocked what was then the greatest hockey team in the
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Animals
Photos from inside a tree reveal intimate lives of wild honeybees
National Geographic - By Jason Bittel and Ingo Arndt
Unprecedented images show how the insects cook invaders alive, stay warm or cool, and socialize. Photos from inside a tree reveal intimate lives of wild honeybees Almost as soon as the honeybee colony
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TV
The Enduring, Understated Brilliance of ‘Better Call Saul’
theringer.com - Miles Surrey
“This is more than we talked about,” Jimmy McGill says in the fourth episode of Better Call Saul’s fourth season. Jimmy has just met up with an …
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Holocaust
Amazon's New Series Turns Nazi Hunters Into Comic Book Heroes. In Real Life, They Were Even Cooler.
Esquire - By Gabrielle Bruney
Amazon’s new series Hunters bills itself as being inspired by true events, but you don’t have to watch more than the first few minutes to realize that the Jordan Peele-produced tale of 1970s New York hunters
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Tech Industry
She’s Pete Buttigieg’s top fundraiser. He’s the founder of Nest. And they’re Silicon Valley’s new power couple.
Recode - Theodore Schleifer
Swati Mylavarapu still remembers the $20 check she sent to Pete Buttigieg by snail-mail in 2010. Now, a decade later, Mylavarapu is the national finance chair of Buttigieg’s presidential bid — and she’s
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U.S. Politics
Is Jeff Bezos part of the climate solution or the problem?
POLITICO - By RYAN HEATH
The Amazon founder's $10 billion Earth Fund is a divisive move, with limits The Sustainability Spotlight is an extension of the Global Translations newsletter. Each week we track major issues facing the
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Technology
Tech’s Midlife Crisis
The Atlantic - Alexis C. Madrigal
It’s hard to watch an old friend go through a midlife crisis, isn’t it? The new girlfriends, younger and wilder. The workout regimens and hair treatments. Running off to Esalen and talking about mindfulness,
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Pop Smoke
Pop Smoke’s Majesty and Menace
The New Yorker - Briana Younger
There was nothing about Pop Smoke that suggested fragility. The rapper, from Brooklyn’s Canarsie neighborhood, was at once larger than life—luxury cars, high fashion, glitzy jewelry—and too cool for any
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Politics
How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession
The New Yorker - Jonathan Blitzer
One afternoon in November, a half-dozen government officials sat at a conference table in the White House, waiting for the arrival of Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump. Miller had summoned
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Art
The artistic wizard who brought Oz to life
BBC News - Steven Brocklehurst
Scottish artist George Gibson created the movie scenery which helped define the look of legendary films including The Wizard of Oz during Hollywood's golden age. Now his family hope he will finally get
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Calabasas, CA
Was Kobe Bryant’s pilot disoriented before crash? ‘Spatial-d’ is a big problem in aviation
Los Angeles Times - Richard Winton
As investigators try to determine the cause of the chopper crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others last month, helicopter pilots and aviation experts are pointing to one likely scenario: spatial
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Coronavirus
At least 5 people in China have disappeared, gotten arrested, or been silenced after speaking out about the coronavirus here's
Business Insider - Aylin Woodward
Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun recently posted a scathing review of the way president Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have handled the coronavirus outbreak. "They all blithely stood by as
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Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg Is Ready for Anything
Men's Journal - Mickey Rapkin
Unless you’re lighting a stuntman on fire, the set of a magazine photo shoot can be a pretty tedious place. A photographer stares into a monitor, a …
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Appalachian Trail
The Forest Service says the Appalachian Trail isn’t “land” in a pipeline fight at SCOTUS
Quartz - Ephrat Livni
It’s not every Supreme Court brief that goes off the beaten legal path, supplementing jurisprudence with humor and spicing up statutory interpretation with devastating wit. But the filing from environmentalists
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