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eSports

How this Malaysian TV network is taking on the burgeoning esports market

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Scotland

Cheap Summer Travel: 23 Best Places To Go Now

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Ashley Renne, an expert in sustainable travel, is pictured in Porto, Portugal, one of the best (and cheapest!) places to travel this summer. Photo courtesy of Ashley Renne Summer travel season is here,…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Animal Protection

Thomas Walkom: The case against rat glue traps

In trying to free itself, it had already pulled out most of its wing feathers. One of its legs was firmly stuck to the plastic tray. The glue itself was a powerful adhesive. To even brush against it was to stick. We discovered later that we had come upon so…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

CCTV

Australia Post delivery driver urinates in customer’s pot plant

This is shocking moment a delivery driver urinated on an unsuspecting customer's front porch after he thought no one was at home to catch him in the act. The young man, who appears to be wearing the Australian Post trademark yellow uniform, had attempted to …

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Seleção

Marta: I still get very nervous before matches

Marta has become the first player to score in five Women's World Cups The leading scorer in this tournament's history spoke to FIFA.com LIVE: #ITABRA Live Blog updating now It took Marta just 45 minutes of Brazils second match at France 2019, against Austr…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Super Komachi

Shinkansen operator to aim for its own cleaning ‘miracle’

Sample newspaper article JR2102020317 2 (KYODO) Words and phrases JR () Central Japan Railway Co. () Tokyo Station () to arrive () Tokaido Shinkansen () in-vehicle () cleaning () time 2 () two minutes () about () to shorten () about () t…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Venezuela

Carlos Ghosn’s Wife urges Trump to help disgraced former Nissan boss

The wife of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has urged Donald Trump to raise her husband's case with Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe at the G20 summit of world leaders this month. I'd like President Trump to speak to Prime Minister Abe about fair condi…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Gundam

How time-loop games offer escape from a world that is running out of time

Timeloop games, in which players try to find their way out of a cycling series of events, are enjoying something of a renaissance. It's as if the industry were caught in a Groundhog Day scenario devoted to the creation of Groundhog Days. Last week's E3 announ…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Little Italy

Manafort’s Monster House in the Hamptons

In 1977, Lewis Berman, a New York veterinarian to the stars, bought an old potato barn and tractor shed in the Hamptons hamlet of Water Mill. With his wife, Amanda, he renovated the property and turned it into a summer house. Seventeen years later, Paul Manaf…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Slavery Abolition

How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Two-Hundredth Birthday

This year we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman; and by we I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. Whitman invented a poetry specific to this language and open to the kinds of experience, peculiar to democr…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

How this Malaysian TV network is taking on the burgeoning esports market

Cheap Summer Travel: 23 Best Places To Go Now

Thomas Walkom: The case against rat glue traps

Australia Post delivery driver urinates in customer’s pot plant

Marta: I still get very nervous before matches

Shinkansen operator to aim for its own cleaning ‘miracle’

Carlos Ghosn’s Wife urges Trump to help disgraced former Nissan boss

How time-loop games offer escape from a world that is running out of time

Manafort’s Monster House in the Hamptons

How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Two-Hundredth Birthday

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