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While the MVP award has become a quarterback award, the Offensive Player of the Year has become the best running back or receiver of the year. Titans running back Derrick Henry clearly was that player this year. He iced PFT’s award in the Week 17 game against the Texans with 34 carries for 250 yards […]
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Statins, common cholesterol-lowering medications, may protect women’s hearts from damage caused during chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “Two types of cancer medications, anthracyclines and trastuzumab, are effective treatments for many women with breast cancer, however, the risk of heart muscle damage […]
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Sainsbury’s Christmas trading update was a demonstration of why the boards of all the big supermarket chains were obliged to come to their senses last month and concede that, yes, all that relief on business rates had to go back to the Treasury. After surrendering relief worth £410m this financial year, Sainsbury’s expects to achieve […]
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Unfortunately for the three companies — and, potentially, consumers — Haven is now disbanding, after a mere three years of operation (it started back in January of 2018). There are undoubtedly dozens of potential reasons for the company’s closure, but a recent CNBC report offers a few plausible explanations; backed by facts obtained through its […]
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City public works employees found Daphne in Blue Slide Park after a passerby alerted them that the puppy had been spotted. They brought her to the Zone 4 police station, and she was reunited with her owner. “Pittsburgh police appreciate the assistance. There are no arrests at this time,” the Public Safety Department said. Daphne’s […]
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It looks like defensive end Everson Griffen is angling for a return to the Vikings. Griffen spent 10 years with the Vikings before signing a one-year deal with the Cowboys as a free agent last offseason. Griffen was traded to the Lions during the season and is now set for free agency. In recent days, […]
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By bringing DNA sequencing out of the sequencer and directly to cells, scientists from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, the Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB), and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have revealed an entirely new view of the genome. With a new method for in situ […]
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It says something about the current state of Britain that the economy has become a sideshow. At any other time, the prospect of a double-dip recession would be front-page news, but it is now merely a footnote to daily bulletins charting infection rates, hospitalisations and deaths. For the past year there has been a debate […]
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Last week Xbox Live’s Director of Programming Lawrence Hryb (aka Major Nelson) invited Phil Spencer to his podcast for an interview. When Nelson brought up shortages, the Xbox head said that all the cogs in the console manufacturing machine are turning at full speed (below). “I get some people [asking] ‘Why didn’t you build more, […]
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For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called “Exercises In Empathy.” Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but […]
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