Just two weeks after Jacques Nasser lost his job as Ford’s CEO, Ron Zarrella today announced he is resigning as head of General Motor’s North American car business to become CEO of Bausch & Lomb, the eye-care company he came to GM from seven years ago. Zarrella’s departure comes just three months after GM CEO Rick Wagoner recruited the highly regarded former Chrysler president Bob Lutz to become the General’s product czar....
The guessing may finally be over. Writing in the journal Science last week, researchers at the National Institute of Al- lergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) identified a previously unknown coreceptor, a cell-surface appendage that they’ve dubbed ““fusin.’’ Their findings suggest that although HIV can’t invade cells by means of the CD4 receptor alone, it readily infects those displaying both CD4 and fusin. ““We would have been happy just to know what the cofactor was,’’ says virologist Edward Berger, who led the team....
Take any of the problems that beset American education: underfunding, violence, high dropout rates, illiteracy, teen pregnancy. California shares them all, and more. And consider this: though California spends less on education per student than any industrial state in the nation, its student population is exploding-fueled by a wave of mostly poor, mostly non-Englishspeaking immigrants - many of them illegal. The situation has grown so desperate, says state schools Superintendent Bill Honig, that California would have to build a new 600-student school every day for five years just to maintain its sorry status quo....
Police say they are searching for 15-year-old Shion Isimel, a table tennis player from the Ivory Coast. Ismiel was last seen near the Delta ticketing area at the Los Angeles International Airport shortly before 6 a.m. Monday and was reported missing around 6:30 a.m. MORE: Olympics held in the United States | Tokyo 2020 logo a controversial throwback The teen speaks only French, according to reports. He was last seen wearing sunglasses, an orange jacket that said “Special Olympics” on the back, and black pants....
The hefty heroine is plucky high schooler Tracy Turnblad (newcomer Nikki Blonsky), whose dream is to dance on “The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s answer to “American Bandstand.” This being 1962, it’s a whites-only affair, with one “Negro day” allowed a month, and even that much displeases the nasty, racist and very thin Velma Von Tussle (Michelle Pfeiffer, relishing her villainy). Velma, the station’s manager, is also the pushy mom of the show’s stuck-up (and thin) star dancer, Amber (Brittany Snow), Tracy’s rival....
Q: Mitch McGary got a one-year suspension for smoking weed? A: Yes, at the time of his test, the penalty for a first positive in any NCAA drug test was one year of ineligibility and suspension for one season’s worth of games. Q: What do you mean “at the time of his test”? A: Just yesterday, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors approved a reduction in the penalty for first-time positives in the “street drug” class to six months of ineligibility and a half-season suspension....
The Knicks gave Anthony a June 23 deadline to make the decision to terminate his contract, but he didn’t need that full timeframe. In an earlier meeting with Phil Jackson and Derek Fisher, Anthony reaffirmed his intentions to venture into the free-agent market. He made the move to opt out on Friday, according to Chris Herring of the Wall Street Journal. Anthony, who will become a free agent on July 1, will have several suitors when he hits the market, with the Chicago Bulls and Houston Rockets representing the most realistic landing spots outside of New York....
The latest season of Barry returned to HBO on Sunday night with series regulars Bill Hader, Henry Winkler, Sarah Goldberg and Stephen Root returning alongside Carrigan. Episode 1, “forgiving jeff,” is set six months after the explosive events of the Season 2 finale. While many of the characters found themselves in different, often uncomfortable situations, NoHo Hank developed a heartwarming relationship in that time. Anthony Carrigan spoke to Newsweek regarding the development of his character....
Superstar signing Davis revealed after the 120-91 victory that he had suffered a knock when missing a dunk in a recent game, and the ailment threatened to keep him out in the first half on Tuesday. However, the 26-year-old returned to produce a devastating display, recording 40 points and 20 rebounds to brush aside the Grizzlies. “I’m here to be a leader of the team and it’s tough for me to do that from the sideline,” he explained to reporters....
Anthony Davis is set to decline his player option this week, per reports, setting him up for his long-awaited and expected free agency “sweepstakes.” That word should be used loosely, though, considering that the Lakers are Davis’ safest, most clear and most obvious answer. MORE: All you need to know about NBA free agency in 2020 Coming off a championship victory and playing alongside perhaps the greatest basketball player of all time, Davis has it made in Los Angeles....
Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday that it was “too soon to tell” if people could gather for Christmas and emphasized the need to get the number of COVID-19 cases down. However, Fauci clarified those remarks during an appearance on CNN on Monday where he said the comments had been “misinterpreted” and encouraged Americans to have a “normal Christmas....
Fauci made the remarks during a Tuesday appearance on CNN. He said that the “surge” of infections that the country has experienced in December had “gotten out of control” and severely hampered efforts at slowing the spread of the virus. He warned that sustained levels of over 200,000 new cases per day, seen for multiple days earlier in the month, would translate into many more deaths due to the “staggered” nature of the delay between contracting the virus and possibly dying due to the infection....
The huge sum, which is said to be part of a 50-50 purse split between the heavyweight fighters, will be the largest payday Joshua has received in a career that has made the Londoner a multi-millionaire. It is also around 20 times more than Joshua earned for his first world title shot, when he beat Charles Martin in April 2016. How much money has Joshua landed from his previous fights?...
In speaking with Sporting News last month before his fight vs. Luis Ortiz, Wilder didn’t feel confident the fight would happen because Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn doesn’t want it to happen. The longtime promoter not only disagrees with Wilder’s assessments but says his fighter wants to settle the score with the American heavyweight. MORE: SN’s boxing pound-for-pound rankings — Which heavyweight makes the top 10? “There’s no one in the world of boxing than Anthony Joshua wants to fight more than Deontay Wilder,” Hearn told Sporting News....
Ross, the recently retired Cubs catcher, is making a Cinderella run on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars”; most recently he pulled off a pretty great (read: Interesting) “Magic Mike”-inspired dance. Current Cub and former teammate Anthony Rizzo took notice, and he took to Twitter to air some thoughts on the routine. MORE: Sporting News predicts how the MLB season will pan out Well, some of the light-hearted jabs resulted in an invite to the dance studio, where Rizzo took a spot next to “Grandpa Rossy....
It was Romero’s baptism at the helm of the nation’s premier civil-liberties group. Soft-spoken and thin as a rake, he isn’t exactly the obstreperous type. He certainly cuts a different profile than his legendary predecessor, the gruff and feisty Ira Glasser. But Romero, 36, so impressed the 83-member ACLU board with his youthful vigor and breadth of vision that it decided in a rare unanimous vote to hand him the reins....
John Thomas Martin, lead pastor at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Florence, Alabama, broke down in the pulpit while telling stunned churchgoers about his “affair” with an underage male. He admitted to abusing the boy on multiple occasions, both at his home and on trips. Martin also reportedly said he sent explicit text messages. According to court documents, the victim claimed that on a camping trip to celebrate Martin’s son’s birthday, the pastor got into the victim’s tent and touched him....
While there is no strict rule on what constitutes an anti-inflammatory diet, nor is there much research on it as a treatment for chronic inflammation, the basic tenets of the diet are the same for any healthy eating plan – eating lots of veggies, fruits and healthy proteins and fats, while limiting intake of highly processed foods. Let’s take a closer look. Uses for the Anti-Inflammation Diet Inflammation is the body’s natural way of fighting disease....
The action on Friday by the PAC has prompted concerns that it could harm the election prospects of the Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, whom it had intended to help. Lis Smith, a former senior advisor to Democratic primary candidate Pete Buttigieg tweeted: “What a massive, massive screw up. The last thing that the McAuliffe campaign needed this weekend. A total disservice to the hundreds of hard-working staffers on the ground....
In a video shared to Telegram on Monday, Witcher said hospital officials asked him to leave his post in the emergency room after he took three patients off of remdesivir—a COVID-19 medication approved by the FDA—and replaced it with ivermectin—an anti-parasite medication that has not been approved for the treatment of COVID-19 by the FDA. “I was aware I was going against the hospital policy on ivermectin but still felt like, as the treating physician of these patients, that I had that option,” Witcher said in the video, reviewed by the Sun Herald newspaper....
