Month: July 2022
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Baseball’s Efforts in China May Show Up at the Draft
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — None of the hundred or so fans at a recent Ban Johnson summer collegiate league game…
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A Casual Fan’s Guide to This Year’s M.L.B. Draft
It will be a hectic weekend for Major League Baseball, which once again has packaged its annual first-year player draft…
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Jim Thorpe Is Restored as Sole Winner of 1912 Olympic Gold Medals
Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice,…
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The Top Races to Watch at the Track and Field World Championships
The World Athletics Championships open Friday in Eugene, Ore., the crunchy university town that calls itself TrackTown, U.S.A. It’s the…
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A New Palestinian Leader Rises in the West Bank. He’s Very Unpopular.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — For years, Hussein al-Sheikh has overseen the fraught day-to-day relations between Palestinians in the occupied West…
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A Proxy Conflict Embroils Democrats Over Support for Israel
OXON HILL, Md. — The primary on Tuesday for a Maryland House seat outside Washington would seem to be an…
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Do Cancer Centers Push Too Many Tests?
Say a postcard arrives in the mail, a reminder to make an appointment for a mammogram. Or a primary care…
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The U.S. Has a New Crisis Hotline: 988. Is It Prepared for a Surge in Calls?
Americans in distress have a new number to dial for help — 988, a revamped National Suicide Prevention Lifeline that…
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Can’t Talk, I’m Busy Being Hot
Edwyna Estime was wearing a heavy, shapeless graduation gown. It was the color of charcoal and it reached all the…
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Raving for Shrek, the Swamp Comes to Brooklyn
On a recent Friday night at the Brooklyn Monarch, a music venue in East Williamsburg, the 1999 Smash Mouth hit…