Who wouldn’t be? For the past 18 months, former Norplant users have been complaining of 40-pound weight gains, monthlong menstrual periods and removals that cause pain, scars and infections. Lawsuits against Wyeth-Ayerst have exploded and, nationwide, Norplant sales have fallen from 800 a day to just 60. During Norplant’s first three years on the market, fewer than 20 out of 800,000 users filed legal complaints, but 50,000 women have now lined up to sue the company....
The American street artist, whose real name is Brian Donnelly, is no stranger to this kind of branded partnership. He has previously worked with the likes of Nike, Reese’s Puffs and even Fortnite, for which he created a virtual cosmetic that you could purchase from the item store. The North Face (often abbreviated to TNF) collection is just the latest in a long series of collaborations for the painter, sculpture, graffitist and occasional toy designer....
The Novation FLkey 37 and FLkey Mini are MIDI controllers designed to make creating music easier for beginners and experienced FL Studio users alike. Why Should You Trust This Review? It’s a fair question—this is a tech website after all. Before I worked as a writer, I was a professional musician. I did a degree in music and I toured playing instruments and as a DJ for several years. In terms of digital music production, I’ve made beats, produced and remixed albums, contributed music to television and games, and briefly taught production classes using Ableton Live....
On Tuesday, the 51-year-old shared a video to his Twitter feed that has since gone viral with more than 13.5 million views. In the clip, he can be heard saying he found an “entire closed full of #woke T-shirts,” while someone is heard laughing off-camera. Musk captioned the video: “Found in a closet at Twitter Headquarter [for real],” with laughing emojis. Since then, New York Times tech journalist Ryan Mac posted a series of tweets explaining the reason why the tees were made and why they were on Twitter’s premises....
A-mei’s star status, wealth and fast lifestyle have taken her a long way, figuratively and literally, from the island’s indigenous people. “When I first became a star, I very rarely saw other aborigines,” she says. “But the other day I actually saw some working with the camera equipment.” That’s about as far up the economic ladder as most aborigines go. Most of Taiwan’s 380,000 native people (only 1.7 percent of the total population of 23 million) languish in poverty....
Bush (down) Says backing Dems is backing terrorists. In the old days, presidents left the low road to surrogates. Kerry (down) Innocently botches anti-Bush joke and gets Swift-Boated again. Shut up and don’t run. T. Haggard (down) If you were a top evangelical and wanted a massage, wouldn’t you call a gay-prostitute meth dealer? D. Hunter (down) Calif. GOP rep. and ‘08 prez hopeful pulls plug on only U.S. Iraq auditor, costing taxpayers billions....
At 79, Marshall is in some ways Washington’s last Wise Man–the last senior official who was “present at the creation,” in Dean Acheson’s phrase, of the nuclear age. Brilliant and inexhaustibly curious, monkishly devoted to his work (he and his wife live in a small rented apartment in Foggy Bottom; his one indulgence is vintage wine), Marshall has a long record of prognosticating broad trends, like the decline of the Soviet Union....
Well, at least he’s loosened up enough to let that slip. Control tends to be a leitmotif in Lorin Maazel’s for-the-record conversation. He won’t take over the Philharmonic until September 2002–he’s only the third American to head the orchestra in its 159 years–but he already speaks with a sense of the responsibilities incumbent upon the successor to Mahler, Toscanini and Bernstein. He keeps a lid on what he can’t “reveal,” plants on-message one-liners (the Philharmonic, you’ll be glad to know, is “rooted in the past and pointed towards the future”), remembers to say “he or she” at least one time in three and keeps guard over his own metaphors....
This herd gathers at no dried-up water holes: their tracks lead to where the action is. And for Altman to be at the center of the action is one of the great Hollywood stories. Written off, if not ridden off, by the movie establishment a decade ago, the director who bestrode the ’70s with films like “MAS*H” and “Nashville” popped back up like some moviebiz Beetlejuice with “The Player,” a stun-gun satire of Hollywood....
Recently, The Pokemon Company released details on its net profits over the last fiscal year. According to the Japanese publication Gamebiz, the Pokemon developer is celebrating its second most profitable year ever. Daniel Ahmad, a senior analyst at the Japanese video game data firm Niko Partners, also took to Twitter to share his analysis. RELATED: Pokemon Sword and Shield’s Zacian and Zamazenta Stand Out From Other Legendaries According to the Gamebiz figures, The Pokemon Company recorded 15....
The candidates’ rhetoric sounds excruciatingly inapposite at a moment when Internet video of the beheading of an American causes no attention to be paid to reports of Palestinians playing soccer with the head of an Israeli soldier. Was it the same head displayed on a Palestinian desk, as seen on Arab and Israeli television? No one can know the effect on Americans–desensitization? radicalization? –of protracted bombardment by such news....
This question originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. You can follow Quora on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. More from Quora: Why do basketball players voluntarily raise their hands after committing a foul? Answer by Kelvin Ho, lifelong Golden State Warriors fan: Making free throws in the NBA is more about psychology (confidence, dealing with pressure, not over-thinking it) and consistency (muscle memory, routine, repetition) than it is about ability....
The people arguing back and forth on these things have been doing very nicely without me, and I would not get into it at all, if it weren’t for one assumption the commentators on all sides seem to share, namely that the disclosure of the program’s rigging and of Van Doren’s complicity in it came as a terrible, disillusioning blow to all. Not to me, it didn’t. I couldn’t have been happier at the news, and I knew a lot of others who felt the same way....
And if you’re wondering which sides are most popular, you’re in luck. Career site Zippia used Google Trends to create a map that presents data on which side dishes are the most popular in each of the 50 states. They looked at over 20 classic dishes, and had to distinguish whether gravy itself was a side. (They decided against.) “Since it’s not a main dish and hopefully isn’t being consumed as a beverage, our hands were tied,” the site noted....
But what if I told you that the best evidence available today shows that the growing national debt contributes to massive problems that many on the Left and Right care about, including wealth inequality, poverty and economic stagnation? On the surface, the link between the debt crisis and poverty seems complicated and unintuitive, but once you take a minute to think it through, the issue actually becomes rather clear....
Jefferson caught the ball on the left side of the court with ample space to get off a shot. That didn’t matter, though. Jefferson went into his shooting motion, started to follow through and then the ball just dropped, as the Brooklyn Game caught. Jefferson had an explanation for his poor shot after the game. MORE: Nets trade Kirilenko | Rondo, Stephenson trade elbows, punches | Nike Christmas The ball might have slipped on this particular play, but Jefferson never hit an NBA 3-pointer before this night and rarely attempted them....
Unfortunately, it’s a common complaint about sports games that they don’t innovate enough. On the one hand, it’s understandable, but sometimes it’s hard to come up with new angles on the sport that the sport itself isn’t actually doing. However, for franchises like WWE 2K that release new entries annually, there has to be some compelling reason to get the new game. Innovation is key, and that’s where AEW Games comes in....
Launched on Tuesday, Hiki (pronounced “hee-KEY”) takes its name from the Hawaiian word for “able” and is the brainchild of 28-year-old developer Jamil Karriem. Karriem’s cousin lives with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and told him he was lonely and afraid he wouldn’t be able to find a romantic partner. Karriem, whose girlfriend had just left him, empathized. “[But] it wasn’t until a few weeks later that it dawned on me that while we both felt scared of the unknown—and we both yearned for meaningful connection—I had a myriad of platforms (both digital and physical) at my disposal where I could put myself out there,” Karriem wrote on Medium....
Messi’s free-kick was a thing of beauty. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner curled the ball up and over the wall and into Jan Oblak’s far-left corner. There was nothing the Slovenian goalkeeper could do. And even though that may be Messi’s favourite spot when it comes to free-kicks, lately his set pieces have been even more unpredictable: against Girona last weekend, he fired one under the wall and into the bottom right corner; at Las Palmas on Thursday he hit the top corner on the same side....
