CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s ban on transgender sports violates a teenage athlete’s Title IX rights, the federal civil rights act that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law could not be applied to a 13-year-old child who had …
A federal appeals court struck down West Virginia’s ban on transgender sports, finding the law violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools from JOHN RABY Associated Press April 16, 2024, 11:22 a.m. ET • 3 minutes of reading CHARLESTON, WV – A federal appeals court has struck down …
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Drinks touted as offering mental or physical benefits beyond hydration are becoming increasingly popular around the world April 15, 2024, 6:22 am ET • 4 minutes of reading Functional drinks – or drinks advertised as offering mental or physical benefits beyond hydration – are becoming increasingly popular around the world. Hundreds of companies have jumped …
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This narrative essay is based on a conversation with Jim Tobin, a 57-year-old entrepreneur. Tobin is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and has run a social media marketing agency for 17 years. Image Credit: Courtesy of Jim Tobin. Tobin and his wife in front of the Taj Mahal. I first learned about Safrans du Monde, …
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Functional drinks — or drinks advertised as offering mental or physical benefits beyond hydration — are becoming increasingly popular around the world. Hundreds of companies have jumped into the market, hoping to get some buzz with trendy and sometimes unfamiliar ingredients. Here are some of the latest discoveries in functional drinks and what scientists have …
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The Ford Bronco was originally conceived and designed for rugged outdoorsmen, a two-door means of escape into nature from the busy cities of mid-century America. But it was already tamed and polished for suburbanites, with cruise control and air conditioning, by 1994 when OJ Simpson curled up in one’s back, a gun to his temple, …
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Gen Z might just talk about you behind your back — or right to your face. But you’d be none the wiser, as the slang-savvy generation has adapted the lingo found only in video games into their ever-expanding lexicon. In a TikTok video with 1.5 million views, Harvard linguistics expert Adam Alexic compared the rise …
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The creators of the influential 2008 documentary Food, Inc. never planned to make a sequel. They thought they had said it all with their horrifying view of a broken, unsustainable food system—a system run, they say, by a few multinational corporations whose monopoly squeezes out local farmers, mistreats animals, workers, and the soil itself, and …
A new social media craze is making the rounds with the emergence of a drink trend called ‘oatzempic’ promising remarkable weight loss results. Yet as the excitement grows, one nutrition expert warns of the potential risks associated with this trend. The name ‘oatzempic’ combines a reference to oats (the main ingredient in the drink) with …
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Images from the Pendulum app Pendulum As a global traveler who loves and covers all things luxury, I’m always looking for a connection no matter where I am in the world – something that gives me the edge to enjoy an experience that few others can claim to have. Enter Pendulum, a new app that …
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