A man developed painful swelling in his right middle finger and right big toe over the course of six weeks, causing the digits to take on a club-like shape. It turned out that the strange swelling was a rare sign of cancer that had spread through his body. Prior to developing the swelling, the 55-year-old had been diagnosed with metastatic …
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PHILADELPHIA — A well-played game between two contending teams ended in the strangest of fashions Monday at Citizens Bank Park, leaving some members of the Red Sox quite confused. The Phillies won in walk-off fashion, 3-2, in 10 innings, but not on a heroic homer or even a clutch single. The winning run, Brandon Marsh, scored when a catcher’s interference …
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Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between solar activity and Earth’s magnetic field. When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking space weather and human behavior, could actually bridge such a vast …
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ATLANTA — What if you went to an All-Star Game and a penalty-kick home-run shootout broke out? Welcome to the 2025 MLB All-Star Game — a game in which the world turned upside-down, the guy who threw the last pitch was a coach, the hitter who took the last swing wasn’t even wearing a cap and the MVP was a …
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At 65, Weird Al still commands the stage like a natural-born rocker, with high kicks and the panache to pull off what few other artists can (including a fat suit). During “Eat It,” a riff on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” audience members — many in Hawaiian shirts and sporting curly locks — were on their feet. Even a seen-it-all security …
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6. “During a knee replacement, the medical team completely dislocates your knee, puts the knee cap to the side, and starts measuring and cutting. During tibia replacement, this part assists in pushing the tibia forward so you can apply components accurately.” “During hip replacement, the entire hip is dislocated, and if it’s an old posterior approach, your femoral head is …
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