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In the world of television crime shows, viewers recognize this long-running classic through two separate yet equally important features. The gritty theme song that introduces the program and the “doink doink” that heralds new scenes. This is that sound effect’s story. For 20 years, we’ve found a strange comfort in watching Law & Order‘s detectives and prosecutors fight crime in New York City. The drama just wouldn’t be the same without the “doink doink,” that one-of-a-kind auditory cue that plays over a black screen as the location and date of the next scene is displayed in white text. [Read More]

Charla Krupp February 18, 2002 12:00 AM EST Don’t be surprised if you run into women on the links this summer carrying golf bags covered in 18th century French fabric. Toile (just say twall) is everywhere. “Toile is the new leopard,” proclaims Cynthia O’Connor, whose showroom based in New York City sells the $555 Clever Carriage Co. golf bag, which will show up in select Neiman Marcus stores this spring. Even if you don’t recognize its name, you know its best-selling patterns: romantic scenes of the French countryside, in black, red or blue on cream-colored cotton. [Read More]

In the video, the Merry, Happy, Whatever star is wearing a tie-dyed sweatsuit and her hair is in a messy bun. Not to mention, shes also wearing no makeup, and her skin looks amazing. Then, she starts dancing to High School Musicals final song, "We're All In This Together," which is pretty meaningful RN. Ashley does the whole classic routine like a champ, with a big smile on her face the entire time. [Read More]

In the memoirs of the late Vice President of the U.S. Thomas R. Marshall, published serially by The New York Times and other newspapers, appeared these Hoosier philosophizings upon pedagogy in general, the Classics in particular: “My people chose to send me to Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind. It was staid, as it is yet. An old-fashioned institution, founded for the purpose, if possible, of giving to a young man what I am pleased to call a cultural education; that is, to train him in those studies and direct his mind along those lines which will give to him powers to reason accurately, or practically so, upon the great problems of life, and to be philosophic under all the misfortunes that may come to him. [Read More]

Bitcoin is back—and more valuable than ever.  On March 5, the cryptocurrency bitcoin crossed $68,900, the highest price in its 15-year history. The news comes less than two years after a vicious industry-wide crypto meltdown that vaporized billions of dollars and culminated in the criminal convictions of industry titans Sam Bankman-Fried and Changpeng Zhao. After the fall of Bankman-Fried’s FTX in November 2022, bitcoin dropped below $17,000. Most analysts aren’t surprised by this rebound: bitcoin has long risen and fallen in volatile cycles. [Read More]

The popularity of farmed Atlantic salmon on dinner tables worldwide has been a disaster for the king of fish. A new study determined that 865 million farmed salmon have died in mass die-offs in the last decade. The scientists blame the deaths on several factors, from ocean warming caused by climate change to the aquaculture industry’s overuse of antibiotics and pesticides and its aggressive attempts to increase production. Beyond the staggering number of dead fish, the findings raise questions about the future of growing salmon in cages on the ocean—and aquaculture in general. [Read More]