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Sources: Rockets hopeful NBA acts on blown call
2019-12-04 12:34:56
The Rockets are hopeful the NBA will either award the Rockets the win or order that the final 7 minutes, 50 seconds of Tuesday's game against the Spurs be replayed at a later date, sources told ESPN.
Gadhimai festival: Nepal mass animal sacrifice festival begins amid outcry from rights groups
2019-12-04 12:34:56
Hindu devotees look on as they travel with a goat in a vehicle ahead of the Gadhimai festival on December 2.
Buffalo Bishop Malone resigns following accusations that he mishandled sex abuse cases
2019-12-04 12:34:31
Malone’s tenure became emblematic of the Vatican’s struggle to overcome its sexual abuse crisis.
The Nintendo Switch is launching in China next week
2019-12-04 12:34:26
The Tencent-powered console drops on Dec 10th
Google's Live Captions come to the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3A
2019-12-04 12:34:25
The Pixel 3 and 3a can now add real-time captions to videos, podcasts and audio messages.
Did Queen Elizabeth Approve Prince Andrew's Disastrous Interview?
2019-12-04 12:34:24
Prince Andrew's infamous BBC interview caused problems for the royal but did the queen give her okay for his media sit down?
Larry Page is the tech world’s Dr. Manhattan
2019-12-04 12:34:23
Brilliant, all-powerful, and a million miles away
Kim Jong-un Visits Sacred Mountain on Horseback. Analysts Watch His Next Move.
2019-12-04 12:34:22
The North Korean leader has often visited Mount Paektu, near the border with China, before making major policy shifts.
For God’s Little People
2019-12-04 12:19:31
Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened.
The tricky ethics of Google's Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records
2019-12-04 12:14:18
The nation's second-largest health system, Ascension, has agreed to allow the software behemoth Google access to tens of millions of patient records. The partnership, called Project Nightingale, aims to improve how information is used for patient care. Specifically, Ascension and Google are trying to build tools, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, "to make health records more useful, more accessible and more searchable" for doctors.
Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power
2019-12-04 12:14:18
We're seeing a transformational change in the propulsion and power sectors. Aviation and power generation have brought huge benefits—connecting people across the world and providing safe, reliable electricity to billions—but reducing their carbon emissions is now urgently needed.
Amazon launches Transcribe Medical for doctors to dictate speech to text
2019-12-04 12:14:15
Amazon is wasting no time in pursuing the opportunity to apply their voice technology expertise to the medical sector, which indeed has a need for voice to text transcriptions. With Amazon's service, the doctor can dictate clinical notes and speech into accurate text, resulting in transcriptions real time.
特朗普:考虑在明年大选后与中国签署协议
2019-12-04 12:07:35
美国总统的言论加剧了全球经济紧张,令投资者感到不安,也令人对解决美中争端的前景产生怀疑。
Idioms and phrases
2019-12-04 11:47:39
The largest dictionary of idioms and phrases currently in use in British, American and Australian English. Over 12,000 phrases and expressions.
Intensive vs. Extensive Reading - Luca Lampariello
2019-12-04 11:44:48
Reading, despite being one of the four major skills of language learning, is one of the skills that is most often neglected by language learners. Aside from reading the words and phrases that are presented in textbooks, phrasebooks and grammar guides, most learners do not bother to regularly engage in reading native texts in any meaningful …
World Wide Words: Start from scratch
2019-12-04 11:30:35
What is the origin of 'start from scratch'?
Can We Get Meaning and Purpose out of Life by Being a Good Person?
2019-12-04 11:05:16
Those who attempt to get meaning, purpose and satisfaction out of life by being a good person will be sadly disappointed. If we want justice in the world we ought to be careful what we wish for, because more often than not, the injustice is our own. The problem with the world is not simply "out there" but it starts with me. When we discover the truth about ourselves and our moral failures, our first reaction is often to redouble our efforts and pledge to to do better. While this can be good on the surface, the problem runs much deeper than that... a problem in our nature. Because, in the end, we won't do better. And we all know it.
Two out of the four teens who escaped a Tennessee juvenile center captured by authorities
2019-12-04 11:04:50
Two out of the four teens who escaped a juvenile detention center in Tennessee over the weekend were captured outside of Nashville late Tuesday, according to police.
Proof That Queen Elizabeth Still Supports Prince Andrew Despite His Departure From Royal Life
2019-12-04 11:04:49
Prince Andrew may have stepped away from his royal duties but he definitely has the support of his mother: Queen Elizabeth.
For 3: Top-ranked Louisville is up to the ACC/Big Ten Challenge
2019-12-04 11:04:46
In the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, new No. 1 Louisville routed upstart Michigan, while Duke handed Michigan State its third loss.

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