Sailors girls tennis nets Sportsmanship Award at state tournament As menacing as they were on the court, the Steamboat girls tennis team was equally as fun and kind while serving as great ambassadors of the sport off the court. The girls were awarded ... 05/11/2024 - 1:24 pm | View Link
High school girls roundup: Catholic Central softball keeps rolling through an unbeaten season The Catholic Central High School softball team has flown under the radar this season, but there’s no denying the Lady Toppers are a force to be reckoned with. 05/11/2024 - 1:45 am | View Link
Girls track and field: Naperville Central wins 2nd straight sectional; Neuqua Valley’s relays shine There’s something about Neuqua Valley and its girls track relays, that even when the names change, the results always seem to impress. At Friday night’s Class 3A track sectional at Downers Grove ... 05/10/2024 - 3:57 pm | View Link
Cedar High School wins 4A girls golf state championship The Cedar High School girls golf team won its first-ever state championship on Thursday, coming from behind to win the two-day 4A tournament by five strokes at TalonsCove Golf Course in Saratoga ... 05/10/2024 - 6:55 am | View Link
Thursday’s high school scores and highlights ROUNDUP BASEBALL Ben Dahlstedt went the distance with nine strikeouts while Dave Trace went 2-for-2 with three RBI as Lynnfield outlasted Manchester-Essex 3-1 in the Cape Ann League. Nate Galanis ... 05/10/2024 - 4:25 am | View Link
Corinne Purtill | Los Angeles Times (TNS)
You feel a cold coming on, or maybe it’s already upon you: the telltale cough, sore throat and stuffy head. You swing by the drugstore, where a shelf full of over-the-counter products containing the mineral zinc claim to be able to shorten the duration of your symptoms.
The promise of relief is tempting.
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Bill Thompson’s wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
“I didn’t have any teeth to smile with,” the 53-year-old of Independence, Missouri, said.
Thompson said he dealt with throbbing toothaches and painful swelling in his face from abscesses for years working as a cook at Burger King.
Terrible, soul-sucking commercials get written, made and, by the public, rejected all the time. This one is different.
Apple’s “Crush” commercial, unveiled last week and no longer scheduled to air on TV in America because people just truly, madly, deeply hated it, constitutes something larger than a miss, or a flub.
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When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said, “even though most people rarely use enough sunscreen.”
At issue is not just whether people are using enough sunscreen, but what ingredients are in it.
The Food and Drug Administration’s ability to approve the chemical filters in sunscreens that are sold in countries such as Japan, South Korea, and France is hamstrung by a 1938 U.
“Bridgerton” returns this week with a racy third season. Meanwhile, in theaters, “Babes,” with its well-deserved R rating, is worthy of your time.
And then there’s the metaphorical, trance-like “I Saw the TV Glow.”
Here’s our roundup.
“Bridgerton Season 3”
Will that shrewd purveyor of Regency-era gossip — Lady Whistledown (voice of Julie Andrews) — finally get her comeuppance and be unmasked as the one and only Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan)?
“IF” may get by. It’s sincere. As the song from “The Music Man” asks: How can there be any sin in that?
It’s also maudlin enough to force you into a defensive emotional crouch for an hour and 44 minutes. I speak for an audience of one here. Others may experience an entirely different set of side effects to a movie with a weirdly groggy and medicinal aura.
As his popular success with the first two “Quiet Place” monster movies asserted, writer-director John Krasinski knows how to balance thrills and miles and miles and miles of heart.