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Titans running back Derrick Henry may be out for the season with a broken bone in his foot and the team is reportedly going to see if one of the other players to run for more than 2,000 yards in a season might be able to help fill in for him. Ian Rapoport of NFL […]
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The potential long-term neurological effects of concussions and other knocks to the head in professional sport have attracted significant attention and research interest over recent years. Confirmation in 2014 that former England footballer Jeff Astle died as a result of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (a form of dementia)—and that it was caused by regularly heading the […]
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Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina and American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) signed an agreement on Tuesday to look at ways to use carbon capture storage (CCS) in the Southeast Asian country. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed during the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow. The […]
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Square for the third quarter reported revenue of $3.84 billion. Although it represents a 27 percent year-over-year increase, it was well short of the $4.51 billion that Wall Street analysts were expecting. Shares of Square are trading down around one percentage point this morning following the earnings report. Gross profit, meanwhile, was $1.13 billion, up […]
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A woman got a henna tattoo as a joke but she stopped laughing a few days later when the design refused to fade – and it’s still visible months later. TikTok star Emily Cook, @emilycook..01, was at Leeds Festival when she decided to pay £10 to get ‘I love Stormzy’ tattooed across her chest in […]
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The Giants were shorthanded in their 25-3 victory over the Panthers last week. But they should have a couple of key players back for Monday’s matchup against the Chiefs. Per multiple reports, receivers Sterling Shepard and Kadarius Toney are expected to play against the chiefs. New York listed Shepard as questionable with a hamstring injury […]
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About 80 million Americans have fatty liver disease unrelated to alcohol abuse. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with obesity and diabetes, and can lead to more severe liver damage such as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cirrhosis and liver cancer. Cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer and breast cancer actually are the major causes of death in patients […]
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Japan Airlines Co Ltd (JAL) (9201.T) reported on Tuesday a narrower first-half loss before interest and tax from a year ago, helped by cost cuts the carrier undertook during the pandemic, but it flagged a wider-than-expected annual loss. The company posted a first-half loss of 151.8 billion yen ($1.34 billion). In the prior year, Japan’s […]
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While it looks as if Intel’s Alder Lake processors will finally give AMD’s Ryzen chips some serious competition, certain games don’t work with team blue’s new CPUs. But patches are coming, and there is a workaround that involves disabling Alder Lake’s efficiency cores. We’ve been very impressed by what we’ve seen of Alder Lake so […]
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A woman has reunited 1960s love letters from a soldier with his lover, bringing her to tears. Chelsey Brown, 28, from New York City, US, spotted the letters at a local flea market and decided to track down the recipient – who was nicknamed ‘Cookie’ in the letters. The romantic notes were signed by ‘Bobby’, […]
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