I was tempted by two emotions: pride that we’d outlasted this ubiquitous disease for so long, and shame that we’d finally contracted it. But I knew better. When he was just under a year old, my son began nodding his head involuntarily in a series of benign-looking little jerks. Eventually he was diagnosed with a rare and devastating seizure disorder. Most babies with infantile spasms (IS), we learned, would go on to have intellectual disabilities and lasting seizures....

Having gone four games without finding the target, the 20-year-old forward rediscovered his shooting boots while away with his country on World Cup qualifying duty. Jesus 6/1 to be PL top scorer A brace in a 3-0 victory over Chile was followed by another in a 7-2 mauling of Stoke upon his return to domestic action. Jesus now has 14 goals in just 21 appearances for City and has an ominous message for those intending to shackle him in the final third – he can get even better....

At the age of eight, I was at a stage where I just wanted to do everything my big sister was doing. I even called her my second mom. She had started making hair bows and wigs for girls and any time she was at the sewing machine I would also want to be using it. When I was two years old I had been diagnosed with a speech, comprehension and fine motor skill delay, so due to my challenges with my fine motor skills my sister was a little worried about letting me use the sewing machine....

I moved to LA in 2003 and started to audition for work as an actor. As Leo’s career continued to ascend, the comments about our similarities began to happen daily. I would get stopped at the supermarket, I couldn’t really go anywhere without being mistaken for him. I was booking roles in movies and TV shows like The Dark Knight Rises and Shameless, and it was always commented upon on set or in a casting office....

I was a quintessential American child of the ’80s. I was told, “you can do and be anything, so now go out into the world and do all the things!” As a child I did everything from ballet to basketball, football and softball. The fact that I’m now living in Nottingham, England—an international entrepreneur and running my own podcast and coaching business, The Simplifiers—feels like a natural evolution of that....

I have always loved art, so I assisted with the design of her wedding. That included hand-printing her invitations and designing the artwork for her wedding. It made me realize that art translates well into weddings. It felt good to be able to help a friend, too; I felt a sense of gratitude because I was able to do something for her using my skills. My friends and I have different strengths....

In my spare time I mostly play with my Lego, but I was inspired to make a robotic hand sanitizer dispenser after I was at the hospital in June 2020 when my sister was born. We couldn’t touch anything at the hospital because of the pandemic, but we were using hand sanitizer where you had to push the pump. The thought came to my mind: why can’t I just make a machine that works without touching anything?...

Then, I travelled to the U.S. to complete my doctorate in epidemiology of vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases. I am a strong believer that vaccines are perhaps only second to clean drinking water when it comes to creating a thriving, healthy society. I also advocate for vaccines being available and accessible, independent of geographic location or socioeconomic status. So, my involvement with COVID-19 vaccines since the pandemic began really came as an extension of the type of work I was already involved in....

I filmed a documentary on the Trump family from the end of August 2020 until the summer of 2021. We set out to understand who the Trumps were and what they wanted to achieve, through interviews with the family and staff. But what I love about documentaries is that you never know what’s going to happen next. Our filming coincided with the 2020 election campaign, as well as the subsequent events of January 6, so that became the spine of the project....

I tend to sing soul and Motown music, although I’ll sometimes throw in some reggae or even rockier tracks, depending on where I’m performing. My job is to get people on the dance floor. But eight years ago, an acquaintance suggested I get involved in the tribute market. They were a Michael Jackson tribute, and they said they were making a killing. So, I decided to start performing as R....

I had been doing some soul-searching and I signed up for a weekend meditation retreat in London, England. I wanted to be more present in my life, to feel more powerful. The company sent me a list of things I needed to stop doing for the week before the retreat: eating meat, drinking alcohol, consuming caffeine—and, to my surprise, watching television. The list made it hit home that television has a powerful influence on how we think and feel and how we see the world....

In a Reddit post published on r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/6fcr6es said they broke out laughing after another student claimed she went on a mission trip to the original poster’s hometown in Virginia. Titled, “AITA for laughing at a girl who went on a ‘mission trip’ to an ‘impoverished area’ but it was actually just my hometown,” the viral post has received more than 15,000 votes and 1,800 comments in just 10 hours....

Badly shaken but alive, Storr and 20 other American POWs were home safe last week, coping with waves of good wishes and bad memories. For the wounded, the military supplied Purple Hearts and corrective surgery; for other kinds of trauma, batteries of doctors and psychiatrists. Lt. Jeffrey Zaun, the POW whose swollen face on NEWSWEEK’S Feb. 4 cover and thick-tongued sound bites on TV had outraged Americans against Saddam Hussein, said he had feared for his life 90 percent of the time, though 90 percent of his cuts and bruises had been “flail injuries” from ejecting at 500 miles per hour....

We had a couple of vacations cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and there were no concerts or sporting events to go to. Then, one day in July I looked down and realized I’d been to Chick-fil-A for 12 days in a row. I remember thinking that there had to be a record. I looked it up online and the unofficial record was by a guy in California who had been to Chick-fil-A for 114 days consecutively not including Sundays when they are closed....

Far from the deadbeats I expected to encounter at the Washington Heights high school where I taught English, my colleagues were dedicated, passionate and hard-working. They were also unabashedly leftist. The teachers’ lounge was an echo chamber of adoration for Michael Moore documentaries, diatribes about America’s hunger for war—accompanied by the refrain “Bush lied, people died” repeated ad nauseum—and promises to move to Canada. I suspected that this ideology seeped into the classroom....

In September 2020, I was returning from walking my usual route, when one of my two dogs sensed something ahead of us. I wasn’t far away, around one hundred feet. I knew something was wrong immediately, because she barked and jumped up. A large black bear emerged from the woods; and my only thought was: “I’m screwed.” I couldn’t run, because the animal would likely charge me down. If you are confronted by a bear, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources recommends creating lots of noise....

The 27-year-old is a well-known lover of grime music and such passion has led to him trying his own hand at writing a few tracks of his own. And Bolasie says it now only takes him between two and three days to put together 16 to 32 bars, though he admits it has taken him some time to build up the skill. Footage courtesy of Kicca.

The current Manchester City manager won a trio of La Liga titles and lifted the Champions League twice with a Messi-inspired Barca team between 2008 and 2012. Messi hails ‘phenomenal’ Ronaldo Messi is reportedly close to signing a new long-term contract at Camp Nou and Guardiola said the way the Argentina international handles an extreme level of expectation places him among history’s sporting elite. “He is one of the most privileged, gifted athletes of all time,” Guardiola told Catalunya Radio ....

Ventura’s dismissal was confirmed on Wednesday after several days of speculation in the wake of Italy’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, the first they will not feature in since 1958. Dabblebet’s World Cup odds here Italy lost 1-0 on aggregate in their qualification play-off with Sweden after finishing second to Spain in the group phase. Ventura’s sacking appeared inevitable as soon as the full-time whistle went at the end of the second-leg 0-0 draw in Milan, with an official announcement eventually coming after an FIGC meeting on Wednesday in Rome....

After things do not work out between Shekar and his previous match, Houston attorney Aparna, Sima sets him up with Nadia, who had previously been ghosted twice by gym CFO Vinay Chadda. After Shekar takes Nadia and her mother on a boat ride, the pair seem to approve of him, and the pair then seem to have a lot in common when they meet one-on-one. Indian Matchmaking on Netflix was filmed last year, leaving viewers wondering whether Nadia and Shekar are still together after their initial spark on the show....