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☆ The cult of the ‘Spoons’: Inside the spartan, cavernous pubs that divide Britain
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Will Noble | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Wetherspoon pubs are an institution in the UK. More than 800 Wetherspoon chain pubs freckle the country — from The Muckle Cross in Scotland to The Tremenheere in Cornwall. The Moon Under WaterA Wetherspoon pub (now closed) featuring the face of chain founder Tim Martin on its sign. Recalling a well-meaning yet beleaguered teacher from his childhood, Martin renamed the pub “Wetherspoon.” (The “J D” was a nod to J.D. “The thing about Wetherspoons pubs which differentiates them from many is that they have a very wide cross-section of customers.

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☆ Tick season: How to remove ticks and what to know about these bloodsuckers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Kate Golembiewski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

There are more than 800 species of ticks found around the world, and 84 that have been documented in the United States. The most common ones are blacklegged ticks (also known as deer ticks, but they feed on lots of animals besides deer), lone star ticks, American dog ticks and brown dog ticks. However, only female ticks drink to the point that they become engorged. Preventing tick bitesThe diseases carried by ticks can be debilitating or even life-threatening, and the risk of infection increases the longer a tick has been on you. Yes, they can be a public health concern, but we don’t want you to let ticks keep you indoors,” she said.

Persons: ”, Kait Chapman, Thomas Mather, ” Chapman, Lyme, they’ll, “, Mather, Chapman, permethrin, Kate Golembiewski Organizations: CNN, University of Nebraska, University of Rhode, Vector, Environmental Protection Agency Locations: United States, Lincoln, University of Rhode Island, Lyme, Cedars, Chicago

☆ What if Mom’s Not to Blame?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Mark Harris | Keita Morimoto | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The past year has brought an exceptionally varied and thematically rich crop of movies exploring men and their — to use the proper scientific term — mommy issues. By the end of most of them, blood is on the floor, and the collateral damage is steep. Men who couldn’t, or worse, didn’t want to, were portrayed as marionettes tied to and practically strangled by their mothers’ apron strings. “I’ve been talking to this psychiatrist about my mother for two years now,” his character says in “Pillow Talk” (1959), adding, “It’s perfectly healthy. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.

Persons: Beau, ”, who’s, Freud, Robert Walker’s simpering, mommy, Anthony Perkins, Norman Bates, Marion Crane, Janet Leigh, Tony Randall, Doris, “ I’ve Organizations: Hudson, The

☆ ‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow Writes the (Broadway) Songs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Jesse Green | More About Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How strange and, in the end, how ironic that a German singing group, founded in the chaotic last years of the Weimar Republic and forcibly disbanded less than 10 years later, should call itself the Comedian Harmonists. Yet on the evidence of the Barry Manilow musical “Harmony” — for which, yes, he wrote the songs (along with his longtime lyricist, Bruce Sussman) — the internationally famous all-male group had the “harmonist” part of their name just right. Neither the guys nor the grim and eventually bludgeoning show have a gift for levity. Though its title makes it sound as if “Harmony” would be calm and golden, its story isn’t an uplifting one. Soon the brotherhood, symbolized in sound by their questing choral closeness, goes sour — a story that, to be effective, needs vivid contrast so we know what’s been lost.

Persons: Harmonists, Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, —, Manilow, what’s Organizations: Socialism Locations: Weimar Republic

☆ What you need to know about ticks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Kate Golembiewski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

There are more than 800 species of ticks found around the world, and 84 that have been documented in the United States. The most common ones are blacklegged ticks (also known as deer ticks, but they feed on lots of animals besides deer), lone star ticks, American dog ticks and brown dog ticks. Both male and female ticks feed on blood by inserting their barbed, straw-like mouthparts into the skin of their host (unlike mosquitoes, which only bite if they’re females preparing to lay eggs). However, only female ticks drink to the point that they become engorged. Yes, they can be a public health concern, but we don’t want you to let ticks keep you indoors,” she said.

☆ Ticks die when they bite him. This man's immunity to ticks could pave the way for a tick vaccine.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Emily Swaim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He has acquired tick resistance, which may help guide research and development of a tick vaccine. (But don't go searching for ticks just to try and build immunity, since you might contract a debilitating tick-borne disease.) "There clearly has been an increase in recent decades in the incidence of tick-borne disease in the human population. CDCThe latest US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data reported 50,865 cases of tick-borne disease across the US in 2019. The Lyme disease vaccine currently in development would only protect against the bacteria Lyme borreliosis, meaning you could still get other tick-borne diseases.

Persons: Richard Ostfeld, welt, aren't, JUAN GAERTNER, Ostfeld, Ostfelt, Lyme, Remus Belododia, haven't Organizations: Service, for Disease Control, National Center for Emerging, Vector, CDC Locations: Lyme, Alaska, Maine

☆ Adani crisis: Billionaire scrambles to reassure creditors as market rout enters third week
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Diksha Madhok | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The loans were backed by shares in Adani Ports, Adani Green Energy and Adani Transmission, which have collapsed in value. While the Adani Group has vehemently denied the allegation made by Hindenburg Resarch as “baseless” and “malicious,” investors remain unconvinced. Adani companies will be reporting quarterly results this week. Moody’s said Friday that the plunge in the shares of Adani companies was likely to reduce the group’s ability to raise capital. Another agency, S&P, cut the outlook for its ratings on two companies, Adani Ports and Adani Electricity, to negative from stable, citing the risk of higher funding costs or reduced access to capital.

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