Dumped Test batsman Cameron Bancroft failed to fire and Shaun Marsh had his cage rattled by Peter Siddle, as Jake Carder steered Western Australia to a strong early position at lunch on day one of the Sheffield Shield match at the MCG. Bancroft (10) was out cheaply in familiar fashion, …
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The “mega fire” burning on the outskirts of Sydney is continuing to cast a hazy gloom over the city. Photos show the normally stark blue Australian sky replaced with greys and oranges. Camera IconThe sun is seen through thick smoke haze in Sydney. Credit: AAPIMAGE One picture by AAP photographer …
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Walk into a health food store, or even a drugstore, and you’re likely to find an entire aisle, maybe two, dedicated to probiotics. Probiotics are live micro-organisms, usually bacteria, that provide health benefits when consumed at appropriate doses. According to some surveys, approximately four million Americans take probiotics, which are …
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AUBURN, Ala. — As thousands of delirious Auburn fans poured over the hedges, turning a football field into a dance floor on Saturday night, there was a different scene playing out in a far corner of Jordan-Hare Stadium. One by one, University of Alabama football players, in their familiar white …
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Is the whiskey world becoming more like the wine world? These days, not only does every state in America have a distillery — Hawaiian single malt, anyone? — but so do many countries far beyond the whiskey heartlands of Kentucky and Scotland: France, Germany, India, Japan and even Taiwan and …
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“Italian food is like Japanese food,” he continued. “You can’t just add ingredients everywhere — you destroy years of history. The rule of two-to-three is good: main product, garnish, seasoning.” In the Marché d’Aligre food market, Mr. Tondo entered a butcher shop, Boucherie Les Provinces, and asked if they had …
Read More »Best Classical Music of 2019
The Metropolitan Opera swept in 2019 with a true gala performance: this Cilea potboiler, in a straightforwardly sumptuous David McVicar production conducted by a spirited Gianandrea Noseda. Anna Netrebko was commanding yet tender in the title role, one of her best parts to date. (She added another to that pantheon …
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Like most young children, Jennifer Mascia fully trusted her parents, accepting whatever they told her as truth. When the F.B.I. arrested her father when she was 5, Ms. Mascia began to …
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Periodically while watching “Midnight Family” you feel as if you can’t look at the screen for another second. But you can’t look away either. That tension encapsulates the push-pull of this documentary, a haunting portrait of a family of emergency medical workers in Mexico City. Because as you tag along …
Read More »Opinion | Russia Is Teaching the World to Spy
Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company and the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, has helped African governments spy on political opponents. Beijing has also sold mass video surveillance to Ecuador and is advising a growing number of autocratic regimes on “information management.” There’s good reason to be worried about …
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