Monopoly Game Board Tokens 2017
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Martina Birk
March 17, 2017 12:33 PM EDT
Ahead of World Monopoly Day (yes, it’s a thing) this Sunday, the beloved game has announced the three new tokens that will be included in the next generation of the game — and the three tokens that will be retiring to make room for the newcomers.
At the beginning of the year, Monopoly asked the Internet to vote for the tokens that they wanted to see in the next edition of the game, ranging from classics like the top hat to newbies like Hazel the Cat, who replaced the iron token in 2013.
[Read More]MyForest Foods MyBacon: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. Many highly processed “fakin’ bacon” products have more than a dozen ingredients. MyForest Foods’ new product—the first-ever whole-cut mycelium-based bacon ($8.99)—is nearly 100% mushroom root. Because “fungi are fundamentally closer to animals than they are to plants evolutionarily,” the mushroom root can deliver the flesh-like texture and gristle bacon-lovers expect, says Eben Bayer, co-founder and CEO.
[Read More]Prostitution: More Than 1000 Arrested in Nationwide Sting
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
A coalition of dozens of law enforcement agencies arrested more than 1,000 pimps and sex buyers in a summer-long series of prostitution stings.
The months-long annual sting, now known as the National Johns Suppression Initiative, was led by Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Il. A total of 39 law enforcement agencies across 18 states arrested 961 men trying to buy sex and 71 pimps or traffickers, more than in any of his previous stings.
[Read More]RateMyProfessors: Hottest College Professors in America
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
October 23, 2014 1:05 PM EDT
RateMyProfessors.com, a website where college students rank faculty — and mostly bash the professors who give them bad grades — has released its 2013-14 list of the hottest college professors. “A professor who receives a chili pepper is considered ‘hot,'” according to the site’s methodology page for the lists. “Chili peppers are awarded based on the sum of positive and negative (hot or not) ratings.
[Read More]Ryan Reynolds, Partners Buying Into Alpine Formula 1 Race Team
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds is among a group of investors who have agreed a deal to pay €200 million ($218 million) for a 24% stake in the Alpine Formula 1 motor racing team.
The deal sees French manufacturer Renault and its sport car division Alpine sell a stake in Alpine Racing to an investor group headed by Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners, and Reynolds’ Maximum Effort Investments.
The deal, which values Alpine Racing at about €900 million, covers only the race team, not the wider Alpine road car manufacturer.
[Read More]Scientists Are Studying Weight-Loss Drugs for Way More Than Weight Loss
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
The new weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound are in high demand, and the clamoring will only increase in coming years, experts predict. That's because drugs like these, which rely at least in part on the appetite-regulating hormone GLP-1, are being investigated not just for weight loss and diabetes, but also for a wide range of other conditions.
"Weight loss is only part of it," says Dr. Ian Neeland, chair of the American Heart Association’s obesity science committee and an associate professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
[Read More]Start School Later: Girl Campaigns for Later Class Start Time
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
March 13, 2014 3:20 PM EDT
17-year-old Missouri high school student Jilly Dos Santos hated waking up so early to make it into school by 7:50 a.m. So when she heard her district was thinking about pushing the start time up to 7:20 a.m., she simply could not stand for it.
“I thought, if that happens, I will die,” Dos Santos told the New York Times. “I will drop out of school!
[Read More]The best zoological gardens and wildlife parks in Nigeria
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
There are thousands of zoos around the world, and Nigeria is one of the countries whose zoos contribute to the counting. However, owing to the observation of numerous reports, it saddens one's heart to know that the present state of zoos in Nigeria is nothing to write home about. Total negligence from government and concerned agencies have brought our zoos to a state of pity. With animals not being fed regularly, and workers being underpaid, it easy to understand what I am talking about.
[Read More]The Final Hours of Gary Graham
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Gary Graham is staring death in the face. After years of appeals and legal machinations, the convicted murderer will die Thursday in a Huntsville, Texas, execution chamber. Graham, 36, was found guilty of a 1981 murder, and has spent the interim period denying his guilt. While no one involved in this case harbors any illusions that Graham is a saint (he has confessed to multiple charges of robbery and aggravated assault), there is a growing sense that he may not be guilty of this particular crime.
[Read More]Tiwa Savage endorses Rango Tenge Tenge
Posted on August 14, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Tiwa Savage shares her son with entertainment executive and talent manager Tunji "Tee Billz" Balogun. The couple had their traditional marriage on November 23, 2013, at The Ark in Lekki, and their white wedding on April 26, 2014, at the Armani Hotel in Dubai. On January 1, 2015, Tiwa Savage and Balogun announced that they were expecting their first child together, who was born six months later. ADVERTISEMENT
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