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Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians is reminding his players to take things one game at a time, but he’s putting a typical Arians spin on that coaching cliche. Asked today about the Super Bowl, Arians shut down any talk of that game and said his team’s entire focus has to be on Sunday’s game in Green […]
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To date, paralysis resulting from spinal cord damage has been irreparable. With a new therapeutic approach, scientists from the Department for Cell Physiology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) headed by Professor Dietmar Fischer have succeeded for the first time in getting paralyzed mice to walk again. The keys to this are the protein hyper-interleukin-6, which stimulates […]
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Hiland Dairy this week announced a recall of some of its chocolate milk over concerns the product has been contaminated with food-grade sanitizers. In a recall announcement posted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) website, the company said that a batch of its half-pint, 1% low-fat chocolate milk, which was produced in Norman, […]
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There was a time I would have railed against a gadget maker for daring to ship a phone without a charger. That time was yesterday. Then, Apple was the poster boy for the idea — Apple with its goody-two-shoes rhetoric about saving the environment while continuing to produce an array of proprietary cables and wireless […]
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‘Megxit’ resulted in “a lot of hurt feelings on all sides” with Prince Harry “heartbroken” by the situation with his family, a close pal to the royals has revealed. ITV news presenter Tom Bradby, who famously interviewed the couple on their tour of Africa, has given an insight into the impact Meghan and Harry’s royal […]
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Everyone knows how good Tom Brady can be in late-game, comeback situations. But Packers head coach Matt LaFleur has experienced it firsthand. The Patriots coming back from down 28-3 against the Falcons in Super Bowl LI is something LaFleur and Atlanta fans would probably like to forget. LaFleur was then the Falcons’ quarterbacks coach. But […]
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An innovative new study is set to examine if changing our mealtimes to earlier or later in the day could reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Led by Dr. Denise Robertson, Professor Jonathan Johnston and post graduate researcher Shantel Lynch from the University of Surrey, the study, outlined in the journal Nutrition Bulletin, […]
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Dozens of Washington, D.C.-area restaurants have banded together for one common purpose: to feed inauguration security staff and other members of law enforcement who have been “protecting our backyard.” Roughly 30 restaurants, whose virus-related struggles over the past year were further exacerbated by the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, found a way to come together […]
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Intel is updating its Next Unit of Computing (NUC) lineup of miniature computers with its 11th Gen processors, and it’s again including a gaming-focused model. The NUC 11 Enthusiast is a follow-up to the NUC 8 Hades Canyon from 2018, which managed to pack triple-A gaming performance (not to mention I/O that rivaled a full-size […]
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The devastated mother of tragic British schoolgirl Nora Quoirin says there is “compelling evidence” she was abducted in a Malaysian jungle. The 15-year-old’s mother Meabh said in a television interview that the inquest into her daughter’s death left several questions unanswered. A coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, a verdict the […]
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