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Justin Langer has addressed Cricket Australia’s board about the challenges of playing the sport in the Covid-19 era amid an alarming injury toll ahead of the four-Test series. Australia suffered a six-wicket loss to India in the second Twenty20, meaning the tourists will shoot for a fourth consecutive win over Langer’s team when they clash […]
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For the first-line treatment of microsatellite-instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch-repair-deficient (dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer, pembrolizumab is superior to chemotherapy for prolonging progression-free survival, according to a study published in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Thierry André, M.D., from Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Saint Antoine in Paris, and colleagues conducted a […]
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Airline group IAG is confident of meeting all EU regulations relating to its ownership British Airways, it said on Monday after the CEO of rival Ryanair suggested it may have to jettison the UK flag carrier after Brexit. Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary believes IAG may have to relinquish ownership of British Airways after Britain’s Brexit […]
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Pokémon Dash is one of those games that makes you say, ‘Someone made that? Really? Why?’ The answer is that Nintendo were releasing the Nintendo DS and they most likely wanted a Pokémon title in the launch lineup to boost sales, so Pokémon Dash was born. The game’s premise is simple – you’re a Pokémon, […]
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Amanda Schottmuller sat quietly during her criminal court hearing on June 29, understanding little about what was happening. She didn’t know why a judge was trying to determine if she was dangerous. “It didn’t make any sense,” Schottmuller, a 37-year-old former nurse who has struggled with depression, bipolar disorder and substance abuse for the past […]
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Cape Town was overcast for much of the day on Monday but around 3pm, just as word came through that England’s ODI leg of the tour of South Africa was off, blue skies and sunshine broke out, showing off Table Mountain in all its glory. The mood in the England squad was in keeping with […]
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Wandering and becoming lost is common among people with Alzheimer’s disease or other disorders causing dementia. This behavior can happen in the early stages of dementia—even if the person has never wandered in the past. If a person with dementia is returning from regular walks or drives later than usual or is forgetting how to […]
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Deutsche Bank on Monday said it planned to join a small number of financial institutions that link management pay to environmental, social and governance-related (ESG) criteria. Germany’s largest bank said that from 2021 management compensation would be tied to reaching targets on sustainable finance investments, on the sustainability ratings it receives from five leading ESG […]
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From my perspective, no console launch is truly complete without an excellent platform game and thankfully, Sony and developer Sumo Digital deliver exactly that for PlayStation 5 with Sackboy: A Big Adventure. It’s a beautiful game, and a fascinating example of how one developer aims to straddle the generational divide – while Sackboy champions the […]
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Chuck Yeager, a former U.S. Air Force officer who became the first pilot to break the speed of sound, died Monday. He was 97. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine called his death “a tremendous loss to our nation.” “Gen. Yeager’s pioneering and innovative spirit advanced America’s abilities in the sky and set our nation’s dreams soaring […]
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