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Brazil’s Carnival Only Starts When 12-Foot John Travolta Arrives
The Brazilian city of Olinda has become famous for its giant puppets during Carnival, including one made just after “Saturday Night Fever.”
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Deadliest Cholera Outbreak in Past Decade Hits Southern Africa
The waterborne disease has killed more than 4,000 people in seven countries over the past two years. Experts blame severe storms, a lack of vaccines, and poor water and sewer systems.
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9 Underrated Romantic Movies for Valentine’s Day This Year
“Notting Hill,” “The Notebook,” “Pretty Woman” — it’s easy to find the obvious romantic choices on Valentine’s Day, but what if you want something different? What if you want an underrated romantic movie, or maybe even a movie you had never considered for the Hallmark Holiday before? We’re here to help. Eight of our esteemed…
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Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or its calendar spot in February would suggest. It’s a low-stakes superhero origin story with a thoroughly amusing Dakota Johnson performance at its center. But the feature debut from longtime television director S.J. Clarkson gets visually chaotic within its (literally) explosive conclusion, and much of the dialogue along…
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How Will Dakota Johnson Survive Madame Web? The Same Way She Handled Fifty Shades of Grey
Dakota Johnson has a new movie coming out, but that’s not why anyone is paying attention to her lately. “Madame Web” opens tomorrow, but little about the film looks promising. For one thing, comic-book movie fatigue is real, which is even truer when a studio presents audiences with a superhero most of them have never…
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Sophos Wins Top Employer Awards in British Columbia, Canada
Sophos has been named as one of the top employers in British Columbia, Canada for the eighth year running.
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Who Kissed First? Archaeology Has an Answer.
A married pair of researchers have “set the record straight” on the ancient history of smooching.
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SpaceX to Launch Intuitive Machines Nova-C Moon Lander: How to Watch
Intuitive Machines of Houston, the latest private company to attempt to carry NASA payloads to the lunar surface, will lift off early on Wednesday.
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Self-Love Is Important, but We Mammals Are Stuck With Sex
Some female birds, reptiles and other animals can make a baby on their own. But for mammals like us, eggs and sperm need each other.
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David Bouley, Influential New York Chef, Dies at 70
At restaurants like Montrachet and Bouley, he channeled French nouvelle cuisine to create the New American style.