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If her husband was somber, Barbara Bush was angry-with Nancy Reagan. Never an admirer of Mrs. Reagan’s, Mrs. Bush was incensed by her efforts to take over last week’s White House ceremony at which Ronald Reagan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Bush sources say that Mrs. Reagan invited a number of Bush enemies without consulting with the White House. Among them: columnist George Will and former GOP aides Joe Canzeri and Ed Rollins, who bolted to work for Ross Perot....

Retired cattle farmer George Brookes, of Uttoxeter, a market town located in England, died July 31 at the age of 85 following a long battle with lung cancer. His family paid a touching tribute by mounting his coffin onto the back of a vintage tractor before taking him to see his beloved cows during his final journey. Son David, 63, said that even after retirement, George would get his wife to drive him around Lower Loxley Farm, where he worked until his late 60s, to have a look at the cattle....

According to Oddschecker, the world No. 2 heads to California as a 6/1 favorite, followed by world No. 3 Jon Rahm at 15/2. McIlroy makes his return to the PGA Tour after a six-week hiatus and will be hoping to continue the form he showed last season, when he won four tournaments and received the PGA Tour Player of the Year award. The Northern Irishman displayed remarkable consistency, finishing in the top 10 in 17 of his 25 starts, including at the PGA Championship and the U....

For many farmers like me, the question runs through our minds several times a year. Sometimes it pops up because of a particularly dreadful or daunting task, like the weeding that seems to never end. Other times, however, the question comes up because of things that are just not in the farmer’s control— like the weather. There’s not much I can do to stave off killing frosts, hail, drought, hurricanes, fires, tornadoes or floods....

Just because you lack a ‘Mac’ in front of your name doesn’t mean you can’t have a little of the Scottish Highlands this season. Plaid and cable-knit sweaters are dominating window displays, signaling the return to one of fashion’s classic looks. And the resurgence extends beyond clothing: accessories and home furnishings are also getting the Scottish touch. Tartan, of course, is a big part of the trend. In 1853, Prince Albert created the Balmoral Tartan–the traditional gray, black and red plaid–after his wife, Queen Victoria, leased the castle....

How does he do it? Every morning he goes off to a trading room in Syosset, on New York’s Long Island, plops down at a computer–and begins to buy and sell stocks. A couple of dozen other guys (and the word is ““guys’’) are there, too. Most are under 30; many wear T shirts and baseball caps, and all gaze at their monitors with the rapt intensity of kids at a video arcade....

This is not your first adventure, right? I snowmobiled and dog-sledded in Quebec, and also photographed polar bears in Manitoba. So why the North Pole? [African-American explorer] Matt Henson was a great inspiration. Historians believe Adm. [Robert] Peary’s trip to the North Pole [in 1909] would not have been successful without Henson. How are you getting ready? I’ll be trying to pull weight—a plastic bag of sand—on a sled at the beach to simulate the conditions....

Lab tests are useful for diagnosing, screening, and monitoring medical conditions. While most lab tests do not require fasting, some lab tests do require a period of going without food before testing, since food enters the bloodstream and can affect the results. This article discusses why your healthcare provider might ask you to fast for blood work and how you can best prepare. How to Prepare Most blood tests actually do not require fasting, but some common ones do....

In a survey of 65 Fijian girls presented last week to the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Anne Becker reported that teen girls who watched TV three or more nights per week were 50 percent more likely than others to feel “too big or fat.” Almost two thirds had dieted in the past month. “That’s unbelievably high,” says Becker, research director at the Harvard Eating Disorders Center. (American numbers are closer to half....

According to ITV, Steven Cooke, 35, had been isolating in his Kent home after becoming infected with COVID. He dialed British healthcare hotline 111 for help. But, when he gave his address the call operator could not understand him and believed he lived at a nearby, but different, location. The network reported the ambulance crew thought Cooke lived in apartment 3 in a block of flats opposite his actual address, house number 3 in Hammond Hill, Chatham....

The family, whose identities have been withheld over fears of retribution, had made the difficult journey from El Salvador to the U.S. border in the spring. They arrived at the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego, California in May to formally request asylum, Richard Sterger, the immigration lawyer now representing the family, told Newsweek. To the family’s dismay, like thousands of other asylum seekers, they were turned around and told to wait in Tijuana, Mexico, while their asylum cases were processed due to the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), better known as the “Remain In Mexico” policy....

MSNBC anchorperson Andrea Mitchell asked Fauci about his disbelief that Trump had distorted key findings from the White House’s COVID-19 task force in daily coronavirus briefings. Mitchell asked Fauci if he still felt the president hadn’t distorted information in light of the president’s recently revealed comments to journalist Bob Woodward in which he said, “I want to always play [COVID-19] down, I still like playing it down.” “After hearing that, hearing those tapes, with him acknowledging that, do you still believe he was not trying to distort the reality?...

“We have let the local public health infrastructure in our country really go into tatters,” said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), during a “virtual fireside chat” with Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. “It’s one of those things where you’re a victim of your own success. We were so good at controlling smallpox, polio, tuberculosis…that we let the infrastructure, locally, essentially go unattended,” Fauci continued, referencing the U....

SARS, a virus in the same family as the current novel coronavirus, was primarily spread from person to person. In 2003, a SARS epidemic spread through 26 countries, resulting in over 8,000 cases. Although there were only eight reported cases and no deaths in the U.S. attributable to SARS, the virus was blamed for 774 deaths worldwide. After the affected areas were placed under quarantine, SARS subsided. There has not been a recorded case of SARS since 2004, according to CDC....

Fauci confirmed the case, which was reported in California, during a White House press briefing on Wednesday. “We knew that it was just a matter of time before the first case of Omicron would be detected in the United States,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, told reporters. He added, “We know what we need to do to protect people....

Morales, 36, became a RSL legend over his 10 seasons spent in Utah. The Argentine scored 49 goals and added 81 assists in 240 appearances for Real Salt Lake since he joined the club in 2007. Morales was named an MLS All-Star three times and helped RSL to a MLS Cup title in 2009 and the 2010-11 CONCACAF Champions League final, in which the club fell to Monterrey. The presence of Morales should help FCD deal with the absence of playmaker Mauro Diaz for the first several months of the 2017 season while he recovers from a torn Achilles suffered in October....

The ownership group for MLS side Real Salt Lake was officially awarded a NWSL club last week, and the then-rumored transformation of FCKC into the new Utah-based franchise has now been confirmed. “First, we’d like to recognize and thank Elam Baer and FC Kansas City LLC for their efforts this past year. We appreciate his commitment in helping the NWSL move forward,” NWSL managing director of operations Amanda Duffy said in a league release Monday....