Numbers: Jan. 9, 2006 | TIME

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  173 words  |  Kelle Repass

DEPARTMENT January 1, 2006 12:00 AM EST $439.5 billion Estimated U.S. retail sales during the 2005 holiday season, up 6% from last year $1 billion Estimated revenue New York retailers lost in the three-day transit strike 216,000 Number of veterans who received benefit payments for post–traumatic stress disorder in 2004, at a cost of $4.3 billion, up 150% since 1999 61% Percentage of U.S. adult males in a mental-health survey who said they’ve had at least one traumatic event in their lifetime [Read More]

Overcoming Anti-Weight Bias Among Doctors

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1633 words  |  Martina Birk

Aubrey Gordon still recalls going to the doctor and having her blood pressure checked three times—because the provider couldn’t believe it was normal, given the fact that she’s overweight. Considering the treatment she’s received at doctors’ offices all her life, she wasn’t exactly surprised. “It’s kind of wild to see that my size comes with so many assumptions,” she says. “From the moment I walk in, my fatness is considered a problem to be solved. [Read More]

Press: Pathfinder Prodded | TIME

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  336 words  |  Patria Henriques

TIME September 14, 1936 12:00 AM GMT-4 A weekly magazine called Pathfinder was established at Washington in 1894 by George Dean Mitchell. Republican son of a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania. Young George Mitchell filled his publication with rewrites of the week’s news, political articles, journalistic odds & ends “for all the family.” At $1 a year, Pathfinder soon prospered, became A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER FOR YOUNG AMERICANS supported by many a patent medicine advertisement. [Read More]

Psquare brothers hold separate birthday parties as beef continues

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  135 words  |  Tandra Barner

The estranged brothers turned up with close friends and families separately at their homes. While Peter had an indoor party, Paul's party had in attendance a number of celebrities including Yemi Alade, Harrysongz, and Jude Okoye. ADVERTISEMENT The Okoye brothers have been at loggerheads with each other since 2017 and it is safe to say it has been one of the biggest celebrity fights recorded in the Nigerian music industry. [Read More]

Russian cosmonauts stabbed a spaceship with a knife to locate a mysterious hole in the International

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  774 words  |  Billy Koelling

When crew members float outside the International Space Station (ISS) to build, inspect, or repair the $150 billion orbiting laboratory, they usually follow a meticulous plan. However, a spacewalk by two Russian crew members on Tuesday was anything but typical. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev spent nearly eight hours cutting, stabbing, and hacking away at a Russian Soyuz spaceship with a knife and pair of scissors some 250 miles above Earth. [Read More]

Singer, other celebs bash Bill Cosby on Twitter

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  60 words  |  Kelle Repass

After we reported that Cosby has finally admitted he got drugs for the women before he slept with them in a newly released deposition in a 2005 closed sexual assault file, Miss Scott says, she's 'disgusted'. In a series of tweets, she expresses her disappointment and pointed out that evidences are always better than assumptions in cases like these.

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The 10 Best Restaurants in the World

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1595 words  |  Billy Koelling

Each year, fine diners, restaurateurs and food writers—I’m in the last group—try to read the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurant list like tea leaves, searching for trends, or at the very least, a coherent theme. But as in previous years, the 2014 edition, which was announced in London late last month, defies unifying logic. The restaurants that made the full list of 100 range from David Chang’s decidedly informal and unsedate Momofuku Ssam Bar, to Alain Ducasse’s paragon of plushness, Louis XIV, in Monaco. [Read More]

The 33 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  19 minutes  |  3896 words  |  Kelle Repass

There’s a lot more than pumpkin-flavored everything to look forward to this fall, starting with a particularly impressive crop of new books. Beloved authors like Kate Atkinson, George Saunders, Dani Shapiro, and Annie Proulx are returning—and former First Lady Michelle Obama has written another book that promises to be a must-read. There are also exciting debuts on the way from authors like Ryan Lee Wong, who delivers an activist’s coming-of-age story, and Jessi Hempel, who writes about the relief of revealing your true self. [Read More]

The Air Jordan Generation: Remembering 25 Years of Sneaker Power

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  223 words  |  Tandra Barner

Getty Images On September 15, 1985, Nike introduced the Air Jordans. They turned out to be, to say the least, quite popular. Sneaker culture exploded out of the post-war era, when American consumers were confronted with extraordinary new hours of leisure time and realized they needed to wear special shoes to take part in the activities this new free time afforded. The key shoe in these early years was the Adidas Superstar, the first to spread from the feet of NBA stars to those of kids on the street. [Read More]