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Only one fighter might match Daniel Cormier if he’s able to retake the UFC heavyweight belt from Stipe Miocic on Saturday night at UFC 252, according to promotion president Dana White. “He’d be neck and neck for greatest exit with [Georges] St-Pierre,” White said on Wednesday during a live-streamed chat with Yahoo! Sports Kevin Iole. […]
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Dr. Ira Weintraub, a recently retired orthopedic surgeon who now works at a medical billing consultancy, saw a hip replacement bill for over $400,000 earlier this year. “The patient stayed in the hospital 17 days, which is only 17 times normal. The bill got paid,” mused Weintraub, chief medical officer of Portland, Oregon-based WellRithms, which […]
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As the coronavirus pandemic upended the global diamond industry, shuttering mines from Lesotho to Canada and disrupting supply chains, Rajen Patel swapped diamond polishing for peanut farming. Patel, who worked for a decade in India’s Surat where about 80% of the world’s diamonds are polished, joined the exodus of gem workers leaving the city as […]
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Forza Horizon 3 will reach “end of life” status in September, Microsoft has announced, at which point the acclaimed Xbox One and PC racer will no longer be available for sale. Forza Horizon 3 debuted to rapturous applause back in 2016, successfully managing to secure an Essential review badge on this very site. Eurogamer’s Oli […]
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Jordan has been in the care of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services for six years. He’d previously been there alongside his younger brother Braison, but he was later adopted, leaving Jordan on his own. Jordan said in an interview with KFOR that he doesn’t get to see his little brother that much anymore, and […]
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Paige VanZant will make her BKFC debut in November against an opponent to be determined. VanZant’s new contract with the bare-knuckle promotion is a four-fight deal that’s worth over $1 million with incentives, BKFC President David Feldman confirmed after an initial report from ESPN. “It tells people we’re serious,” Feldman told MMA Fighting about the […]
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According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), clinicians do not read a considerable proportion of second-opinion radiology reports—”a situation that can be regarded as an appreciable but potentially reversible waste of health care resources,” the authors of this AJR “Health Care Policy and Quality” article concluded. Conducted by three radiologists from University Medical Center […]
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Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer (2317.TW), posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and forecast its smartphones business would see sustained revenue weakness but at a slightly slower pace this quarter. The Taipei-based company, however, is expected by analysts to boost its revenue recovery in the months ahead, underpinned by the expected launch in autumn […]
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Daniel Mullins – the developer behind such genre-defying delights as Pony Island and The Hex – has offered up the first trailer for his “inky black” card-based horror oddity Inscryption. Mullins intially shared word of Inscryption, apparently an expansion of an idea first visited in his Ludum Dare game jam effort Sacrifices Must Be Made, […]
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A church in New Orleans is enforcing social distancing guidelines for churchgoers using some paper, blue tape… and scripture. The funny church signs were printed by staff at Redeemer Presbyterian Church to keep people from sitting too close together.
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