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Australian businessman Peter Freedman has purchased Sir Donald Bradman’s first baggy green cap for $450,000 after it failed to sell at auction last week. While the second-highest price ever paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia, behind only the $1,007,500 paid at auction for Shane Warne’s Test cap earlier this year, it is not the […]
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A made-in-Canada approach to producing the world’s most commonly used medical isotope has received Health Canada approval, ushering in a new era for patients in Canada and around the world who rely on these isotopes for critical diagnostic procedures. A Canadian consortium, which includes the University of British Columbia, BC Cancer and TRIUMF, is the […]
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The Department of Justice is alleging that Walmart broke the law and contributed to the prescription opioid crisis by filling thousands of invalid prescriptions and failing to report suspicious orders of opioids, according to the department’s statement. The Justice Department said the civil penalties it is seeking could total billions of dollars and injunctive relief. […]
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In Cavill’s latest Instagram post, he writes: “My Christmas break is creeping ever closer and I have some projects to attend to. The second one is definitely the Christmas tree….”. It seems the first project Cavill is referring to is upgrading his PC with Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Founders Edition graphics card. Back when he built […]
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A British mum has been handed a £75,000 bill after prematurely giving birth in the US – two days before she was due home. Amy Collins, 30, needed an emergency caesarean to deliver her 1lb 9oz son William in Texas on December 11. He was born at 24 weeks and needed specialist care in hospital […]
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Steve Smith is confident a nagging back complaint will not prevent him building on his imperious MCG record in the Boxing Day Test against India. But the former captain admits he initially feared he would miss the series opener in Adelaide when he was forced to withdraw from a nets session two days prior. Smith […]
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The notion that a bit of stress makes people perform better has been baked into our everyday lives. But research from UBC neuroscientist Dr. Adele Diamond suggests it might not be so good for us after all. The study, published recently in Cerebral Cortex, found that even mild stress may harm most people’s executive functions—mental […]
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The private bankers responsible for lending to President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner have resigned from Deutsche Bank, the bank said. “Rosemary Vrablic and Dominic Scalzi have tendered their resignations to Deutsche Bank effective as of year-end, which was accepted by the bank,” Daniel Hunter, a spokesman for the bank said in a statement. Vrablic […]
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As reported by Tom’s Hardware, an earthquake that hit Taiwan last week impacted the production of leading LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO). Company chairman Paul Peng said (via DigiTimes) that it took “at least a few hours” to get the lines restarted, resulting in some output loss—though he never said how much. TrendForce notes […]
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It’s a Wonderful Life, a tale of despair turning to hope, has been voted the best Christmas movie. BBC Radio 2 listeners picked the 1946 classic from a list of 25 festive films. It tells the story of kind-hearted George Bailey, played by James Stewart, who has given up on living when his guardian angel […]
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