Bradford pears (Pyrus calleryana) are one of my least-favorite trees, to put it as nicely as possible. From a distance (and behind closed windows), their display is quite beautiful. Their smooth, dark trunks and branches topped with enormous clouds of white flowers make an impressive sight, especially when there are dozens of them flanking a…
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Former Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Pace and his wife, Stephanie, sold their house in Lake Bluff for $1.4 million in an off-market deal, according to public records. Now a senior personnel executive with the Atlanta Falcons, Pace was the Bears’ general manager from 2015 until the team fired him in January. Pace and his…
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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Portuguese health authorities confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young…
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As the Miami Heat were finalizing their 2021-22 roster, coach Erik Spoelstra chimed in on the team’s final roster spot. At the time, the deliberations were down to Markieff Morris of Jeff Teague. Spoelstra opted for Morris. The biggest winner from that decision? Arguably Gabe Vincent. For Morris, it was a season largely preempted by…
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Q. Hi Honk. Any word on the widening of the southbound I-15 near the Nevada border? Searching online only shows the original announcement on Dec. 5, when we were told to expect construction to begin this spring with completion anticipated by the end of this summer. – David Tompkins, Los Angeles A. Yes, David, Honk…
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Clara Woods fluently understands three languages: Italian (she spent her first 14 years in Florence), Portuguese (her mother is Brazilian), and English (her family moved to Huntington Beach two years ago). But she cannot speak, read, or write any of them. Clara suffered a prenatal stroke that severely damaged one hemisphere of her brain, leaving…
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After a gunman murdered 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, politicians responded as they always do to such shocking crimes. Democrats pushed gun control policies ranging from the symbolic to the flagrantly irrelevant, while Republicans emphasized improvements to school security. On its face, “hardening” schools so they are less…
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Q: Is Joel Embiid sending a signal? – Bob, Davie. A: Sure, a signal that he expects the 76ers to surround him with more, a signal that he was against Philadelphia moving on from Jimmy Butler in the 2019 offseason, a signal that he knows he still can control the NBA discourse through his social…
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In the pecking order of professional sports, is being a scout considered an undesirable gig? I have no idea. General managers probably take all the credit when the team lands a star in the making, and lay all the blame on scouts when a sure thing flames out. These kinds of grievances are true of…
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He only put on the batting glove because he had to. He never uses them. But now he had sutures in his left hand, and he just needed something to protect himself from the “gnarly” cuts. Orioles outfielder Austin Hays is old school. Normally he holds the bat with his bare hands, rubbing the clay…
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