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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
The latest weapon in the U.N.’s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now. Edible insects are being promoted as a low-fat, high-protein food for people, pets and livestock. According to the U.N., they come with appetizing side ...
A novel coronavirus that has killed more than half of the 38 people it is known to have infected appears capable of limited human-to-human spread, the World Health Organization said Sunday. France reported a second case of the disease on Sunday. The patient, who ...
Gianna Chien was somewhat different from all the other researchers reporting on their work to more than 8,000 doctors at last week’s Heart Rhythm Society meeting. Chien is 14, and her study — which found that Apple Inc.’s iPad2 can, in some cases, interfere ...
The first kick of the 2014 FIFA World Cup may be delivered in Sao Paulo next June by a Brazilian who is paralyzed from the waist down. If all goes according to plan, the teenager will walk onto the field, cock back a foot ...
Landing astronauts safely on Mars is one of the biggest technological hurdles for any future manned mission to the red planet, even more complicated than last year’s daring rover touchdown. NASA dazzled observers by landing the 1-ton Curiosity rover on Mars in August in ...
Astronauts made a rare, hastily planned spacewalk to fix an ammonia leak at the International Space Station, and the U.S. space agency said it appears the repair work was carried out successfully. But the following weeks will be the test. Authorities have said the ...
Europeans appear to be more closely related than previously thought. Scientists who compared DNA samples from people in different parts of the continent have found that most had common ancestors living just 1,000 years ago. The results confirm decade-old mathematical models, but will nevertheless ...
A fly factory that transforms blood, guts, manure and discarded food into animal feed has won a $100,000 U.N.-backed innovation prize. “We’ve created the first industrial farming operation for flies,” said Jason Drew of AgriProtein Technologies, which devised the concept. The initiative is based ...
U.S. scientists have found a way to infect mosquitoes with bacteria to break the chain of malaria transmission, according to research published Thursday. A similar approach has helped reduce dengue fever in some locations, and researchers hope the findings can offer a path toward ...
Children who eat the same meals as their parents are far more likely to have healthy diets than those who do not, according to research. Eating the same food had a greater impact on a young child’s health than any other factor, including social ...
You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes! It’s an odd little speech. But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these ...
They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn’t have when they arrived, some caused by dangerous superbugs that are hard to treat. The rise of these superbugs, ...