Moss Park Alligator Attack: Florida Girl Fights Off Gator
May 9, 2017 3:33 PM EDT
A 10-year-old Florida girl fended off an alligator when it chomped onto her leg by ramming her fingers up the animal’s nose — a survival strategy she learned at a gator theme park — and prying the alligator’s mouth open, state wildlife officials said.
Juliana Ossa told NBC’s Today show that she was scared when the nearly 9-foot alligator bit her left leg and wouldn’t let go as she was sitting down in shallow water at an Orlando lake Saturday.
National Affairs: Spare That Postman
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May 22, 1950 12:00 AM GMT-4
When Postmaster General Donaldson announced (TIME, May 1) that he was going to fire or furlough 10,000 postal employees and cut home deliveries down to one a day, many a member of Congress thought the Postmaster General was maneuvering them up against an electric fence in an effort to get more appropriations and higher postal rates. Last week the Senate’s Post Office Committee 1) resolved unanimously to ban reduction of mail service, and 2) reported out a bill by which the reduction order could be forbidden by law.
National Enquirer Covered Up Story of Donald Trump's Affair
November 5, 2016 3:26 PM EDT
The National Enquirer bought the rights to a former Playboy model’s story about her 2006 affair with Donald Trump and then declined to publish it, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
American Media Inc., the company that owns the tabloid, agreed to pay $150,000 in August to Karen McDougal, who allegedly had a consensual romantic relationship with Trump in 2006, while he was married to his wife, Melania, the Journal reported, citing interviews with McDougal’s friends, who say she told them about the affair.
Netflix Untold Episode on Murder of Steve 'Air' McNair
Netflix’s hit sports documentary series Untold kicks off its fourth season with an in-depth look at the career of NFL star quarterback Steve “Air” McNair and his 2009 murder at just 36 years old. As TIME wrote back then, McNair had an “outstanding” 13-year NFL career but “sadly, what we'll most remember about Air McNair is the shocking way in which he died.” He was found dead in his Nashville apartment on July 4, 2009, lying next to his mistress, Sahel “Jenni” Kazemi, a Dave & Buster’s waitress.
Pattie Boyd, Ex-Wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Sells Intimate Letters, Personal Arc
Pattie Boyd, the former fashion model and ex-wife of Eric Clapton and George Harrison, has sold her memorabilia collection, including intimate letter from both, for more than $3 million. In a well-publicized love triange, Boyd was married to Harrison for more than a decade after they wed in 1966 before they divorced and she married Clapton, Harrison’s close friend and collaborator, in 1979.
Religion: Propaganda | TIME
FALSE PROPHETS—James M. Gillis— Macmlllan ($2.00). This book endeavors to refute the Messrs. Shaw, Wells, Freud, Conan Doyle, Haeckel, Neitzsche, Mark Twain, Anatole France. It concludes with a chapter on The Revival of Paganism and another called Back to Christ—or Chaos. Written by a Paulist Father, it is sectarian religious propaganda. It goes so far as to call a rival creed “not a religion but . . . a patchwork composed of odds and ends, shreds, and fragments of false philosophies, put together in an amateurish way by a sadly uneducated Yankee woman.
Review: Heart of Stone on Netflix
The throwaway diversion is nothing new in the world of movies, though the era of content may very well be its golden age. Never has there been so much stuff, of varying quality, for you to put in front of your bored eyeballs. As throwaway diversions go, Netflix’s Heart of Stone—starring Gal Gadot as a secret operative who at one point flies through the air in a puffy flying-squirrel suit—is neither great nor terrible.
Scientists Say the Squatty Potty Really Does Help You Poop Better
Using a bathroom stool could help your stool, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology.
Products like the Squatty Potty (which are known scientifically as “defecation postural modification devices,” or DPMDs) have in recent years gained a cult following for purportedly helping people relieve themselves in the most natural position: squatting. People can mimic a squat by simply placing their feet on a stool while using the toilet, raising their knees above their hips.
The 'Juliana' Case Shows Where Climate Litigation Goes Next
If you’re like most Americans, the name Kelsey Juliana might not mean a lot to you. But if you’re an attorney or other official with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Council on Environmental Quality, or a host of other federal departments and agencies, Juliana is a very big name—and a very big headache.
The 25 coolest tech companies in Israel
The Middle Eastern country is sometimes referred to as "Startup Nation" thanks to the sheer number of entrepreneurs building businesses there, particularly in cities like Tel Aviv. Multinational tech companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft all have research centres in Israel but some of the local companies are arguably more interesting, with many of them specialising in drones, cybersecurity, and autonomous driving technology. ADVERTISEMENT
The tech companies have been ranked based on interviews with multiple investors on the ground in Israel and what the firms have achieved over the last year.