Is Any Sport Worth it?
Is fame, honor and glory along with a lucrative amount of money worth loss of memory and self because of a "Swiss cheese" brain?
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Photos of a normal brain (top) compared With the brain of Greg Ploetz (bottom), who played defensive tackle for the Texas Longhorns and who suffered from severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Boston University Photography
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ACTIVISM |
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SCREEN |
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| MOVIES WITH NO HEROES |
"Pascal is ... producing Steven Spielberg's next film, a Nixon-era newspaper drama
[about the Pentagon Papers] called 'The Papers' [originally titled 'The Post'],
which is already white-hot as an Oscar contender, in part
because of President Trump's war with the news media. Starring Meryl Streep [as
Kay Graham] and Tom Hanks [as Ben Bradlee], it will be released by 20th Century
Fox on Dec. 22."
Warning: This Drug May Kill You, an HBO documentary: Well-done piece on
addiction to opioids brought on after taking painkillers for treatment.
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SCIENCE |
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YOU DECIDE |
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BUDGET |
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan
(R-Wis.) and the panel’s chairman, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.), have said they
intend to pursue a deficit-neutral reform bill, meaning the savings would have
to be found in other programs under the committee’s jurisdiction — such as
Medicare, disability aid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and
unemployment compensation.
The Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, which has explored cuts to the federal workforce and to
federal employee benefits, would be required to find $32 billion in deficit
savings, while the Education and Workforce Committee, which has jurisdiction
over college aid programs, would have to find $20 billion.
“Clearly, no budget, no tax reform.” That
comment made by House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady on Thursday, and
then again for good measure on Monday [July 24], is the primary selling point
on which House Republican leaders are hoping to whip up enough support to
pass their fiscal 2018 budget resolution. Yet that pitch has done little to
appease the naysayers.
NOTE: The news sources here vary. Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here. This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased. Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value. Thank you.
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