But how exactly did the four-time NBA MVP get chosen for a supporting role in a major motion picture? Schumer, who is also credited with writing the screenplay, explained in an interview with ESPN’s Michelle Beadle why picking LeBron was so simple. MORE: James through the years | LeBron, Kevin Love meet by the pool | James opts out of contract “I wrote him in (the movie) because he’s the only basketball player I’ve ever heard of,” Schumer said....

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control (voluntary muscles) are affected. People with ALS lose the ability to move their arms, legs, mouth, and body. It may get to the point that the muscles used for breathing are affected and the person might need a ventilator in order to breathe. For a long time it was believed that ALS only affected muscles. It is now known that some individuals with ALS experience changes in cognition, such as problems with memory and decision-making....

Last June NEWSWEEK reported as many as 60 percent of U.S. injuries and nine of the 23 deaths may have been due to friendly fire. The Pentagon denied the story. But the report reveals that the Pentagon failed to disclose that 72 of 312 servicemen it counts among the wounded were actually injured in parachute jumps, not by enemy fire. The report also shows the U.S. military death toll was 26 not 23, and at least six may have been the result of friendly fire....

The most selective colleges and universities sin the most. In the fall of 2000, there were about 1.2 million entering freshmen at four-year schools. Of these, only 163,004 applied for early admissions, according to the College Board. But Harvard routinely admits 55 to 60 percent of its freshman class early; at the University of Pennsylvania the proportion is 40 to 50 percent. The College Board found 41 schools where the share exceeded 30 percent and 464 four-year schools–a fourth of the total–that offered some sort of early admissions....

The phone booths belong to Pacific Century CyberWorks, a former high-flying telecom company owned by tycoon Richard Li. Once valued at $70 billion, PCCW’s stock collapsed last year, battering thousands of investors. The company is now worth about $12 billion, and there are a lot of angry people holding a grudge against Li, whose vision of a wired Hong Kong had been hyped as the future of this former trading port....

Last week, however, Greene became the highest-ranking naval officer since World War II to face a court-martial. The charge: that while serving as the chief of a unit charged with fighting sexual harassment in the wake of the 1991 Tailhook scandal, Greene sexually harassed female subordinates. The case is a nightmare for Greene, 47, who is married with three children and whom his colleagues regarded as a sober family man....

It sounds condescending, although it shouldn’t, to say that this novel would make a fine graduation present for any young man or woman on the way to college. For unlike most books about coming of age, this one shuns the superheated angst of the juvenile heart. This tale about the pleasures of growing up is meant for grown-ups, be they of legal drinking age or not. In shimmering, loosey-goosey language that flirts with post-Faulknerian trance talk without ever succumbing (“the also and also and also of campus life”), Albert Murray evokes the Tuskegee Institute as it was 50 years ago, when he matriculated there....

The Kurdish Cause As a Turk who happily grew up with both Kurds and Turks in school and on the street, my heart goes out to the demonstrators I saw on TV (“A Kurdish Inferno,” Europe, March 1). We are essentially brothers and sisters who have lived together for hundreds of years. Abdullah Ocalan fights the Turkish military, but he also supports the Turkish football team–we are thus deeply interconnected on a human basis....

If the lab finds abnormal cells, further testing is necessary. The anal Pap does not test for colon or rectal cancer. The anal Pap smear is the counterpart of the cervical Pap smear, named after George Papanicolaou, the Greek doctor who invented the test in the 1940s. This article explains the anal Pap smear purpose and screening guidelines. It also covers what to expect during the test and how to prepare....

There are two muscles: the internal anal sphincter and the external anal sphincter. This article will go over the anatomy of the anal sphincter and its function. You will also learn about conditions that affect the anal sphincter and what happens if the anal sphincter is damaged. Anal Sphincter Anatomy The rectum of an adult is, on average, about 4.7 inches long. The lower part of the rectum is the anal sphincter....

Ever the perfectionist, Jackson was not happy with being number two. Together the musician, his manager and record company came up with the idea of an exhilarating music video for the album’s title track directed by Hollywood icon John Landis. The 14-minute short movie for ‘Thriller’ was born and the album which spawned it returned to the top of the charts and became legend. Bayern 15/2 to win CL with dabblebet...

The cycles described by the researchers in a paper published in Nature occurred billions of years ago, during periods of the planet’s history when temperatures were between 11 and 17C hotter than today. Earth is expected to return to these temperatures and similar conditions millions of years from now, as the Sun’s brightness and energy output increase. Aside from helping us to predict what the Earth of the future may look like, the research could also help us contextualize the weather impacts of global warming as driven by human activities, that we are currently experiencing....

Recent investigations at the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya’s Acacus Mountains revealed nearly 18,000 individual specimens, almost 80 percent of which were fish—such as catfish and tilapia—according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. The remains have been dated to between 10,200 and 4,650 years ago, covering much of the early middle and Holocene period—the current geological epoch. The rest of the remains consisted of mammals (around 19 percent,) while the team also found a small quantity of bird, reptile, mollusk and amphibian remains....

Update: Hillary gets in on the action:

But if the discussion merely concerns menopause and hormones, it will have been a huge missed opportunity. Instead this is the ideal time to confront the issue of one-size-fits-all health care, which has been the standard for far too long. Here is where the expected attack on the medical establishment would normally begin. Not this time. As an editor once told me, “Cherchez le contract.” By deciding to willy-nilly prescribe hormones to every female patient, from those who had dry skin to those tormented by hot flashes from hell, doctors were just doing what was easiest....

As applying to college gets more competitive, counselors like King become power brokers. He can rattle off the names of admissions officers from Amherst to Yale with whom he’ll chat before the envelopes are mailed. Not everyone returns his calls; Princeton’s admissions officers don’t talk to counselors. But at the University of Chicago, admissions officers often call high-school counselors themselves for guidance. “When Leonard calls, I always listen,” says Barbara-Jan Wilson, dean of admissions at Wesleyan....

However, this drop is justifiably more than fantasy owners growing bored of a 33-year-old vet on a maligned Houston Texans offense. MORE FANTASY FOOTBALL: Keenan Allen matchups | Eric Decker vs. AFC East| SN Fantasy Source There’s also the issue of how much of Johnson’s production was condensed in two weeks last season, which featured a 229-yard game and all of his touchdowns. It’s hard to argue definitively that Ryan Fitzpatrick will boost Johnson’s fantasy numbers over what Matt Schaub and Case Keenum could offer for much of last year....

The warrant was signed in Flint, Mich., where Rison grew up and resides after a mercurial NFL career that ended in 2000 with the Raiders. MORE: ‘Honey Badger’ now has a pot of money | Antonio Brown nearly ejected in practice Rison, 49, is best known for his time with the Falcons and an infamous altercation with girlfriend Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, who burned down Rison’s mansion in suburban Atlanta in 1994....