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Ind vs NZ: The joys and sorrows of the high-risk game in a single frame

The high-risk style is set to continue, and whenever the Bengaluru Test situation arises again, there will be wistful talk of Cheteshwar Pujara, and even Sunil Gavaskar.




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AI: The role of global standards in driving innovation and responsible development

The future of AI will require new standards to ensure safe and responsible implementation




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Column | So you don’t have a bestie

Lessons in relationships and a bowl of fragrant and spiced apricots with meat



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Money, happiness and the connection between the two 

Nobel Prize winning behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman led a famous study which concluded that happiness increases with income until it plateaus at $75,000 a year




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Column | Going where the youth are

There’s a reason why Trump and Kamala Harris are racing between primetime talk shows and comedy podcasts 




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India rely on the kindness of others as WTC final dreams fade

The recurring, and humiliating collapses of India’s batting are at least partially the responsibility of the cricket board which showed a lack of spine by not insisting that the big boys play in the national championship.




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Incompetence rights a wrong, but for how long? | On the import of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses

Perhaps the notification that banned the import of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses was as fictitious as the characters in the novel




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M&Ms “Vote For Your Favorite Peanut”

Name: Peanut M&Ms: Chili Nut, Honey Nut, Coffee Nut Brand: Mars Place Purchased: samples from Mars Price: $1.19 retail Size: 1.74 ounces Calories per ounce: 147 Type: Chocolate/Peanuts Rating: 7 out of 10




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Trader Joe’s Scandanavian Swimmers

Name: Scandanavian Swimmers Brand: Trader Joe’s Place Purchased: Trader Joe’s (Silver Lake) Price: $2.99 Size: 14 ounces Calories per ounce: 107 Type: Jelly Rating: 7 out of 10




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Candyology 101 - Episode 34 - Mike and Ike

They’re a simple little candy, Mike and Ike, just elongated jelly beans. Listen in for some fun flavors they’ve come in and our suggestions for the future.




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Candyology 101 - Episode 35 - Whatchamacallit

In the latest Candyology 101 podcast, Maria and I tackled a little-celebrated candy bar, the Whatchamacallit. We’re also trying out a new format, which is a little shorter, like a handful of fun size candy bars!




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Candyology 101 - Episode 36 - KitKat

Let’s all take a break with KitKat on this episode of Candyology 101. Maria and I take a quick look at one of the most popular candy bars in the world.




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Candyology 101 - Episode 37 - Lemonheads

How about something tangy? In this episode from last month, Maria and I talk about the never-duplicated LemonHeads and their companion candies.




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Crispy M&Ms S’mores

Name: Crispy M&Ms S’mores Brand: Mars Place Purchased: CVS (3rd & Fairfax) Price: $2.50 Size: 8 ounces Calories per ounce: 113 Type: Chocolate/Cookie Rating: 5 out of 10




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HiCHEW Sours

Name: HiCHEW Sours Brand: Morinaga Place Purchased: Daiso Market (Little Tokyo) Price: $1.50 Size: 3.17 ounces Calories per ounce: 113 Type: Chew/Sour Rating: 8 out of 10




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Hot Tamales Licorice Bites

Name: Hot Tamales Licorice Bites Brand: Just Born Place Purchased: Target (Glendale) Price: $1.89 Size: 8 ounces Calories per ounce: 113 Type: Licorice/Cinnamon Rating: 8 out of 10




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M&Ms Boo-tterscotch (Target Exclusive)

Name: M&Ms Boo-tterscotch Brand: Mars Place Purchased: Target (Eagle Rock) Price: $3.19 Size: 8 ounces Calories per ounce: 148 Type: White Chocolate Rating: 7 out of 10




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Readers sound off on Mother’s Day, Biden and justice

Chicago: They were there when you were born and they’re there for you now. Mothers are first responders to any sickness or heartache that their kids have. They don’t come with sirens blaring, but have rescued us when we had a high fever, or tummy ache in the middle of the night.




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Universal message for today

Dear Mom,




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Reinvent, smartly: A Gates Foundation-led rethink of New York public schools has promise and risks

A state full of parents who, having been suddenly forced to help homeschool youngsters, have by the millions grown more appreciative of the work of professional teachers in actual classrooms, had reason to worry when they heard how Gov. Cuomo trotted out plans for a Gates Foundation reinvention of public education statewide.




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A million thanks, ma: Today, support mothers working harder than ever

Every day should be Mother’s Day, because without mothers, none of us would exist. But today is the national holiday, designated 106 years ago by President Woodrow Wilson — a time when cards, flowers, chocolates and breakfast in bed typically accompany the kind words we send mom’s way.




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The last days of the glitz age: The coronavirus and what comes next

“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain was first credited with saying in 1970, 60 years after reports of his death had ceased to be exaggerated.




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A life-or-death moment for cities: New York and other metropolises must protect themselves from pandemics or our future will be far less urban

COVID-19 has killed at least 19,000 New Yorkers and dealt a body blow with lasting consequences to the city. Two paths lie ahead. If pandemics become common, then not only New York City but all of America’s service-based economy faces a bleak future. If this terrible plague is a unique event, then things will eventually get almost back to normal. To save both the nation’s biggest and most productive metropolis and tens of millions of service jobs across the county, we must invest enormously to prevent future pandemics.




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The Great Mother within: A time for us to summon her

“A mother has no age,” the rabbi said as a masked handful of us buried my grandma in Queens last week. The next day, my friend lost her mom to COVID-19 after a weeks-long battle with the illness.




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Re: Management of respiratory failure due to covid-19




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Re: Face masks for the public during the covid-19 crisis




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Classifying deaths from COVID-19: Why the official statistics will never reflect the true mortality from coronavirus, and how future studies could try to address this




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Re: David Oliver: Is abuse towards doctors in government roles unfair?




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Covid-19: underneath the iceberg




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Re: Clinical features of covid-19




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Re: Covid-19: how to use your time when clinical placements are postponed - Wellbeing perspective




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The multi-ness of fighting the short-term and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic




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Re: Covid-19: Brazil’s president rallies supporters against social distancing




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Re: Prognosis of unrecognised myocardial infarction determined by electrocardiography or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis




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Ian Bell: Osborne's plans to eradicate budget deficit dissolve into puddle of excuses

War is the great distraction. Right or wrong, foolish or wise, it suspends all the usual political and economic rules. Suddenly a chancellor who has spent five and a half years telling us “there is no money” can find ready billions for warfare.




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This moment is far too important for weary Left-Right Labour

If the bookies are right, Jeremy Corbyn is the political equivalent of a nice slice of wholemeal, browning fast. He’s toast. Smart money, supposedly superior to any opinion poll, says a Labour leader elected by a landslide will be gone within a year of his triumph.




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Ian Bell: Do the right thing, Prime Minister – don't bomb Syria

IN dark times, begin by giving the Prime Minister a bit of credit. Unlike a certain predecessor, David Cameron has accepted that there needs to be an honest, public argument over the case for an escalated war in the Middle East.




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Ian Bell: a war that will leave us with a hellish mess

War, then. Another war. Still another war begun because the last guaranteed-conclusive war produced consequences that made one more shot in the dark inevitable. Intellectual and strategic failure is on a production line.




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What's the problem with city council and marking the Easter Rising?

Glasgow City Council has a keen sense, it seems, of what is or might be controversial. When the rest of us imagine that a handful of words to mark a long-distant historical event could never be more than anodyne, the council is alert to the affliction of controversy. It is a condition to be avoided at all costs.




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Ian Bell: The dismantling of Hilary Benn's empty war rhetoric

IT isn’t often that a rousing speech on socialist internationalism is rewarded with a full transcript in the Spectator. In fact, it never happens. The Tory Party’s newsletter is funny like that.




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Ian Bell: heavy price paid for failing to meet climate change costs

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.




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One of Scotland's finest: read 12 of Ian Bell's best columns

Award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell has died at the age of 59.




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The voice that was a guide to our nation: Ian Bell in his own words

Ian Bell, the award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald writer and columnist, died last week aged 59. Here are excerpts from 10 of his finest pieces of writing.




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Paying a heavy price for failing to meet the cost of climate change

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.




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Why the SNP's pro-EU allies are becoming increasingly frustrated by the party's friendly fire attacks

THE Treasury has bombarded us all week with facts, figures and forecasts making the case for the UK to remain in the European Union. Its big report, on Monday, warned Brexit would tip the country into a year-long recession, resulting in up to 820,000 job losses within two years.




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A deal on Holyrood's new committees is close - and it will limit the SNP's dominance

MSPS were really quite excited last week to be taking part in a largely symbolic vote with an entirely predictable outcome.




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It's right to ask questions about the named person scheme in the wake of Liam Fee's murder

NICOLA Sturgeon was at her best during the new, extended First Minister's Questions on Thursday when she spoke about the sickening murder of Liam Fee.




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Would Brexit, against the wishes of most Scots, trigger a second independence referendum?

THE warning is becoming louder. It was raised by the Leave team during Thursday's TV debate and, on the same day, by the Chancellor, George Osborne, and two former prime minsters, Sir John Major and Tony Blair. Brexit, they said, posed a serious threat to the Union.




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Jo Cox's death should challenge our lazy, unthinking disdain for politicians

"Everyone hates politicians," the MSP observed. We were chatting about the EU referendum and she was explaining why the polls were showing a rise in support for a Leave vote.




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Remain campaigners are desperate to avoid a brutal blame game if we vote Leave

RUTH Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, will take on Boris Johnson in the BBC's final EU debate, grandly entitled The Great Debate, which will be broadcast at 8pm tonight.