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NFL This article is more than 10 months oldMichael Irvin plays video of encounter at center of $100m Marriott lawsuitThis article is more than 10 months old Ex-NFL star refiles $100m lawsuit against Marriott in Arizona Irvin, 56, claims he will be exonerated by surveillance footage Pundit was taken off Super Bowl coverage after allegations Former Dallas Cowboys star Michael Irvin showed reporters the hotel surveillance video at the center of of his $100m lawsuit against Marriott on Tuesday.
Music This article is more than 11 months oldPantera shows cancelled after frontman’s Nazi salute prompts fan backlashThis article is more than 11 months oldPhil Anselmo’s 2016 salute and shout of ‘white power’ have come back to haunt him as German and Austrian venues refuse to host the metal band
Three shows of Pantera’s forthcoming reunion tour have been cancelled this week, seemingly due to a 2016 incident in which frontman Phil Anselmo made a Nazi salute and yelled “white power” at a concert.
Stereotype of Chelsea tractor reflects reality of urban SUV sales, says report | Environment
2024-05-10
Environment This article is more than 2 years oldStereotype of ‘Chelsea tractor’ reflects reality of urban SUV sales, says reportThis article is more than 2 years oldFigures show that 75% of SUVS were bought by people living in towns and cities
The stereotype of the Chelsea tractor, the derogatory term used to describe the tendency of the London middle classes to use 4x4 vehicles for the school run, is based on reality, according to new figures.
The divorce survival guideDivorceI never expected to fall in love again in the waning years of middle age, with a failed marriage behind me. But this love did not lend to living together as spouses
In the last instalment of this weeklong series, an anonymous writer shares the most painful part of his marriage: the moment it all fell apart.
What if the moment your marriage is over is a discovery forced upon you when your marriage has only just begun?
SPECULATIVE SCIENCEWhat temperature does a vacuum have? Torkel, Sydney, Australia
What temperature does a question have? The question is a category error but it does raise an interesting point about heat transference. Heat is transferred by three means: conduction, convection and radiation. A coal fire convects most of its heat up the chimney (I think this may be an example of an 80/20 split), radiates almost all the rest into the room and if you put a poker into it, it will conduct heat into it.
Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre review
2024-05-09
Health, mind and body booksReviewLuisa Dillner praises a calmly outraged investigation into the drugs industryIf you were shocked by the MPs expenses scandal, try this one: in America, a popular media doctor, Drew Pinsky, goes on air to praise the antidepressant Wellbutrin. What's so great about it? Whereas other antidepressants lower libido, this drug "may enhance" sexual arousal. What his loyal listeners don't know is that Pinsky has been paid $275,000 by GlaxoSmithKline "
G2 kidsJake and Dinos ChapmanInterviewHow the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grimStuart JeffriesFamous for their twisted sculptures and visions of hell, the Chapmans are now creating art for children. Stuart Jeffries visits their studio to talk innocence, Freud and fairytalesKids' competition: colour in a Jake and Dinos Chapman drawing
Jake Chapman is checking the proofs for his and his brother Dinos's new colouring book for children. They are spread out on a pool table in their factory-sized studio on an east London industrial estate.
Republicans This article is more than 3 months oldKey Republican wears scarlet ‘A’ T-shirt after vote to oust McCarthyThis article is more than 3 months oldIn apparent nod to Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, Nancy Mace says ‘I’m wearing the scarlet letter … after being demonized for my vote’
Nancy Mace, a Republican member of Congress who was a key vote in ousting Kevin McCarthy as House of Representatives speaker, has donned a white T-shirt with a red letter “A” on it to symbolize her being “demonized” for her decision.
Lawrence Rainey’s 2005 work Revisiting The Waste Land advanced new readings for TS Eliot’s masterpieceLawrence Rainey’s 2005 work Revisiting The Waste Land advanced new readings for TS Eliot’s masterpieceOther livesLiterary criticismObituaryLawrence Rainey obituaryMy PhD supervisor, Lawrence Rainey, who has died aged 66, was a leading literary critic and an authority on Anglo-American Modernism. He wrote and edited groundbreaking critical studies and editions, and was co-founder and co-editor of Modernism/modernity, the award-winning journal of the Modernist Studies Association.