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Alas, the time machine remains in the realm of science fiction, and so the burden of trauma will have to be carried by all. My name is Alex Hess, and I sat through Arsenal-Man United. Given each club’s humiliating and high-profile results the previous weekend, it was tempting to view the match as a meeting of a pair of punch-drunk boxers staggering backwardly into each other, still reeling from their recent beatings....

What’s that? You already filled out your tournament bracket? WRONG. ALL WRONG. MORE: The best Cinderellas | Printable bracket | Who will bust your bracket? There are rules and regulations for something as important as your NCAA Tournament bracket. Here are the rules. An Idiot’s Guide to Filling Out Your Bracket Always wait until the last minute to fill out a bracket. You have a whole week to prepare. Why rush it when you can wait to copy experts’ brackets later in the week?...

Sony was the creation of two men–Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita–who first met in 1944 and worked together for 40 years. Ibuka, the older of the two, was an electrical engineer, one of those people who can make something magical from string, sealing wax and an old battery. Morita was the oldest son of a distinguished family–sake brewers–and steeped in the precise, feudal practices of old Japan. (Morita’s reputation as the most “Western” of Japanese corporate leaders is only half the story; he never lost his reverence for Japanese traditions and hierarchy....

With wins in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, the momentum this morning may belong to Hillary Clinton. But thanks to Democratic Party’s gratuitously fair system, the delegate count barely changed after last night’s white-knuckle victories–meaning the math still favors Barack Obama. Unless 30 percent of his superdelegates vanish, 30 percent of his pledged delegates defect and Clinton wins 60 percent of the remaining primary and caucus delegates, it’s all-but-certain that he’ll maintain his 150-delegate lead at the end of voting....

During the Vistula Run, as the event is called, the torch-bearers cover 800 kilometers, traveling on roads that pass through villages and cities-including Warsaw-along Poland’s Vistula (Wisla) River. The run is the brainchild of Ryszard Parulski, a fervent right-winger and former Olympic medalist-he won the silver for fencing in the 1964 summer games in Tokyo and a bronze in the ‘68 games in Mexico City-who now makes his living as a lawyer in Warsaw....

“The tradition of the ‘Olympic Truce’, or ‘Ekecheiria’, was established in Ancient Greece in the ninth century BC through the signing of a treaty between three kings – Iphitos of Elis, Cleosthenes of Pisa and Lycurgus of Sparta – to allow safe participation in the ancient Olympic Games,” the Olympics website stated. Building upon this Olympic tradition, the United Nations recently passed a resolution asking all countries to stop wars and observe the Olympic Truce....

But how do new televisions work? This overview should shed some light on the difference between past and current TV technologies. CRT Technology Although you can’t find new CRT TVs on store shelves anymore, a lot of those old sets are still operating in households. CRT stands for “cathode ray tube,” which is essentially a large vacuum tube, which is why CRT TVs are so big and heavy. To display images, a CRT TV employs an electron beam that scans rows of phosphors, line by line, to produce an image....

NEWSWEEK: Scientists and evangelicals have announced that they are coming together to address global warming and environmental change. What exactly does this collaboration entail? Eric Chivian: We believe that it was very important for these two groups–scientists and evangelical Christians–to get together and speak with one voice, because the public sees us as disagreeing on a whole variety of issues. And yet it was clear after we began to meet that we really shared a very deep reverence for life and we shared an enormous concern about what was being done to it by human activity....

The documentary, entitled ‘The comeback story of Angela Lee’ follows the Singaporean-American’s preparations ahead of her first fight in over two years back in March. Scheduled to face her was the ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix Champion, Stamp Fairtex. In the weeks leading up to their monumental world title clash at ONE X, Anatomy of a Fighter shared parts of the documentary that shed a light on Lee’s mindset during preparations for her comeback fight....

The most noticeable change in Amnesia: Rebirth is its setting, which holds a variety of environments where most horror games, including The Dark Descent, take place in a single, homogenous area to create a sense of oppression and claustrophobia. A horror game set in a desert sounds like a tough thing to pull off, so we asked plenty of questions about that, but our first query centered on Amnesia’s lasting legacy in the horror genre: Are there any games that may have been inspired by The Dark Descent that have since informed Rebirth’s development?...

The short trailer runs less than one minute, but that’s all that’s necessary to build hype for Among Us’ 15-player lobbies. The trailer starts like any normal Among Us game, with players starting to join the game. Then, when it feels like no more players should be able to join, they just keep pouring in. That’s when the title flashes, “15 Player Lobbies,” alongside, “There are 3 Imposters among us....

The Democratic presidential candidate said she doesn’t support abolishing U.S Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE), but instead wants to “reform” the agency. Trump claimed at a rally in Colorado Springs on Thursday that Colorado had become a “sanctuary state” and that Democratic leaders in the state “think Colorado should be a haven for murderers, kidnappers and felons that come into our country illegally.” Asked if the Democratic leaders who want to abolish ICE are going “too far,” Senator Klobuchar told Next 9 News, “I don’t agree with abolishing ICE....

Cheney, the chair of the House Republican Conference, was one of the 10 Republicans to vote with Democrats to impeach Trump after he allegedly incited his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on January 6 in a bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Since then, the Wyoming lawmaker has repeatedly condemned Trump in public comments, drawing the ire of the former president and his many loyal GOP supporters....

These days, Lois Snow has a far different relationship with the Chinese government. At 79, she is one of Beijing’s most vocal critics. Snow’s views on China took a U-turn on June 4, 1989, she says, when the People’s Liberation Army turned its guns on unarmed student protesters in Tiananmen Square. Snow calls Li Peng and other Chinese leaders who sent in the troops “arrogant people who should bear the consequences of their violence....

The fire in Kanungu, deep in the impoverished rural highlands of southwest Uganda, was the latest horror to blight a region that has seen countless tragedies in recent years. At last count, 530 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God died in the fire, which at first glance appeared to have been set by members of the apocalyptic cult in an act of mass suicide....

But today he’s nervous. This “show” is “Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings”–in the august Mu-seum of Modern Art, where it will be on view Oct. 29 through Jan. 15. True, he’s long been represented by such top-o’-the-heap galleries as Pace, Mary Boone and Matthew Marks, and a drawing of his once fetched half a million dollars at auction. But he’s never seen many of these 56 canvases and 50 drawings together before....

Nano Receivers vs. Bluetooth Some Bluetooth receivers are nano receivers, but not all nano receivers use Bluetooth technology. Bluetooth receivers employ 2.4 GHz band radio communication and are capable of linking multiple devices together, which is why they are called “unifying devices.” Devices linked together over Bluetooth form a piconet, so such receivers are sometimes called USB pico receivers. Some non-Bluetooth nano wireless receivers operate on the same frequency; however, they only work with specific devices, such as the keyboard or mouse that they came packaged with....

PARIS (Reuters) - Wales were billed as a team dependent on Gareth Bale but a 2-1 win over Slovakia in their Euro 2016 opener on Saturday was built on a pacey, fearless performance that should help prove they are more than a one-man show. The Real Madrid forward opened the scoring after 10 minutes with a swerving free-kick that wrongfooted keeper Matus Kozacik but for much of the match he was isolated and had to track back rather than being able to spark another moment of magic....

It was thought by some analysts that the PlayStation 4 was still slightly ahead of the Xbox One in terms of projected sales, but analyst company Robert W. Baird & Co. believe that sales between both consoles will have “similar or even slightly higher sales of Xbox One” by the end of the year. While analyst Colin Sebastian estimates the Xbox One will outsell the competition slightly, he doesn’t think it will be by much with each console selling 2....

Second-half goals from Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele, along with a brace from Luis Suarez after the break, earned Barcelona a convincing win in Michigan, though Ancelotti claimed the opening two strikes should not have stood. Suarez buried the rebound after a Griezmann shot was saved in the 48th minute, and the Frenchman scored himself eight minutes later after a pass from Jordi Alba, who appeared to be in an offside position....