Month: April 2023

Swiatek Beats Sabalenka in Straight Sets to Win Stuttgart Title

STUTTGART, Germany—World number one Iga Swiatek cruised past Aryna Sabalenka 6–3 6–4 to win the Stuttgart Open on Sunday in a repeat of last year’s final to confirm her status as a French Open favourite. The Pole, back from injury and gearing up for her French Open title defense next month, and world number two…


1 Hour Quiet and Melodious Original Song ‘History Retrieved in a Compassionate Glimpse’ | Musical Moments

Song title: History Retrieved in a compassionate glimpse. Composer: Joseph Ma, Yuu Ay Arrangement: Yuu Ay Orchestration: Yuu Ay Mixing: Yuu Ay In the flow of history, many difficult issues have accumulated. Because there is no way to let them go, the subtle predestined bond is entangled into an inextricable knot. However, in the long…


Corpuz, Yin Tied for Lead at Chevron After 3rd Round

THE WOODLANDS, Texas—Americans Allisen Corpuz and Angel Yin shared the Chevron Championship lead at 10-under 206 after the third round Saturday. Corpuz and Yin each shot 5-under 67 at The Club at Carlton Woods in the major tournament that moved from the California desert to suburban Houston this year. Corpuz started out strong, with birdies…


In Award Winning Film, ‘The Quiet Epidemic,’ Technology Proves Existence of Chronic Lyme

After decades of being accused of being hypochondriacs, sufferers from chronic Lyme disease have been exonerated in an award-winning American documentary called “The Quiet Epidemic.” The 2022 film proves that Lyme spirochetes, in approximately 20 percent of those affected, remain active in the human body long after the customary three-week round of antibiotics. Doctors and…


Whole Foods Announces Layoffs of Corporate Employees, Restructuring

Amazon.com’s Whole Foods Market grocery chain plans to lay off some corporate employees over the next two months as part of a reorganization plan to simplify operations, the company announced Thursday. The company told employees that it will make changes to certain Global and Regional Support Teams, resulting in staff cuts, according to a memo…


Evans Leads Jaguar One-Two in Berlin Formula E Race

BERLIN—New Zealand’s Mitch Evans led Britain’s Sam Bird to Jaguar’s first ever Formula E one-two in a chaotic race in Berlin on Saturday. The victory, from ninth on the grid at the circuit around the city’s old Tempelhof airport, was Evans’s second in a row—after Sao Paulo on March 25—in the all-electric world championship. “It’s…


Book Review: ‘The Things We Make’: How Invention Really Works

We often hear about better living through science. Yet progress in improving our lives most often comes from engineers rather than scientists. Engineers make the things that improve the human condition. Scientists follow, explaining how and why the things engineers make work, and taking the credit. We speak of rocket science, when it is really…


Governments Race to Rescue Diplomats, Citizens From Sudan

KHARTOUM, Sudan—The U.S. military airlifted embassy officials out of Sudan on Sunday and international governments raced to evacuate their diplomatic staff and citizens trapped in the capital as rival generals battled for control of Africa’s third-largest country for a ninth day. Fighting raged in Omdurman, the city across the Nile from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, residents…


VIDEO: Missing Injured Sheepdog Who Had His Leg Amputated Gets Happily Back to Work

A sheepdog who went through the trauma of getting lost and injured is back joyfully rounding up sheep again—with the loss of one leg. Boss the border collie works on a farm in Perthshire, Scotland. He went missing for a whole eight days last July, while out in the fields. Shepherdess Anna MacKinnon, 25, who…


5 Charged in Youth Game Brawl; Man Later Died of Heart Event

ALBURGH, Vt.—Five adults have been charged with misdemeanor assault for a brawl that erupted at a middle school basketball game earlier this year, Vermont State Police said, but they won’t face any charges related to the death of one person involved in the fight who later had an acute cardiac event. Police watched multiple videos…