Despite All Its Accomplishments, It Is Not Without Scandals - The Peace Corps Turns 50: 10 Little-Kn

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  239 words  |  Patria Henriques

From rape to assault and murder, the Peace Corps' history is marred by some serious scandals. In early 2011, the Corps came under fire after an ABC News-20/20 investigation found that more than 1,000 American women had been either raped or sexually assaulted while serving overseas in the Corps. Beyond that disturbing statistic, the victims who came forward claimed that the organization knew about the assaults, did nothing to help protect the women and went as far as to blame them for the attacks. [Read More]

Disney got rid of 'Do Not Disturb' signs at its hotels and the reason is chilling

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  216 words  |  Martina Birk

If you stay at a Walt Disney World resort in the coming months, you may have less control over when cleaning and maintenance staff enter your room. Some resorts are beginning to replace "Do Not Disturb" signs on guest rooms with signs that say "Room Occupied," Walt Disney World News Today reports. The change means that resort employees can enter your room while you're in it, but will attempt to alert you before doing so. [Read More]

Dr Dre is officially single as fight over prenup with estranged wife Nicole Young continues

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  151 words  |  Tandra Barner

This is according to a judge in the United States who granted the rapper a divorce from his estranged wife, Nicole Young. However, Nicole and Dr Dre have their finance to sort out as the rapper has continued to contest their prenup. Dr Dre and estranged wife, Nicole Young [NetworkWiki] Pulse Nigeria ADVERTISEMENT Nicole has appealed for the prenup to be nullified, but Dre has disagreed with that arrangement. [Read More]

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 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  59 words  |  Billy Koelling

'I Can Be Daunting Because I’m Scared to Death.' Choreographer Mark Morris on Dancing and Being 'Difficult'

The choreographer, dancer and teacher Mark Morris, 63, has a new memoir, [tempo-ecommerce src=”https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735223076/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0735223076&linkId=4b2e67e8c7d1f532aea080d4a033062b” title=”Out Loud” context=”body”], in which he describes in detail his at times wild ride from young flamenco dancer in Seattle to...

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Female Athletes Talk About Competing While Pregnant

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1101 words  |  Patria Henriques

Serena Williams found out she was expecting her first child just two days before the Australian Open. In a TED Talk interview with Gayle King this week, the tennis great revealed she was “nervous” about playing while pregnant but managed to buckle down and focus on the task at hand. “It wasn’t very easy,” she said. “You hear all these stories about people when they’re pregnant — they get sick, they get really tired, really stressed out… I had to really take all that energy and put it in a paper bag, so to say, and throw it away. [Read More]

Finding Peace in New York City's African Burial Ground

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1465 words  |  Kelle Repass

The oral history of my family says that President James Madison, a Founding Father of our nation, was also a Founding Father of my African American family. In 1992, when I realized I knew a lot about how the president had lived his life but little about how his slaves had lived theirs, I took my first trip to Montpelier, Madison’s former Virginia plantation. I toured the mansion, the Madison family cemetery, and an excavated kitchen where it is likely one my enslaved ancestors once worked. [Read More]

Foreign News: A Lost Lady

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  737 words  |  Billy Koelling

Lara was “the purest thing in the world,” and “nothing equaled her in spiritual beauty.” She was like Russia itself: “martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored.” In these words, Boris Pasternak described the beautiful heroine of his great novel, Doctor Zhivago, known to readers the world over—except in Russia, where Zhivago is banned. Hanged Husband. What was not generally known was the fact that Pasternak had drawn Lara from a real-life model: Olga Ivinskaya, 55, a woman born to poetry and suffering. [Read More]

Franz Schubert (Composer) - On This Day

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  234 words  |  Billy Koelling

Profession: Composer Biography: Franz Schubert was only 31 when he died, yet had composed over 600 works, a fraction of which were published within his lifetime. The son of a school teacher, he lived most of his life in obscurity in Vienna. It was only after his death in 1828 from typhoid fever and probably syphilis that the extent of his composition was discovered, published and performed. Schubert is particularly known for his melodies and songs, writing over 500 of the later. [Read More]

Golden State Warriors in History

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  42 words  |  Patria Henriques

Youngest Player to Score 20,000 Points

2012-01-17 LeBron James becomes youngest player in NBA history to record 20,000 career points during the Miami Heat's 92-75 victory over Golden State; James, 28 years, 17 days, passes Kobe Bryant, 29 years, 122 days

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Happy 80th Gloria Steinem: 8 of Her Funniest Truisms

 Posted on August 4, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  379 words  |  Martina Birk

Gloria Steinem isn’t just the founder of Ms. Magazine and the most recognizable “face of feminism” — she’s also hilarious. Herewith, some of her most entertaining nuggets of wisdom. 1) “A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.” (1970) 2) “A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”(1972) 3) “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. [Read More]