Medicine: The Drinkers | TIME
2024-08-07
Alcoholism appears to be growing into a bigger & bigger U.S. health problem. Reporting in the current Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, Dr. Robert V. Seliger, chief psychiatrist of the Neuropsychiatric Institute of Baltimore, writes: “This behavior illness . . .” causes ravages “worse and more varied than those of any other specific known medical or psychiatric sickness. The toll it takes each year in lives, due to alcoholically induced accidents; in happiness, due to marital and family life upheavals .
Most dangerous active volcano in Africa
2024-08-07
One of the most active volcanoes in this continent is Mount Nyiragongo located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nyiragongo is a stratovolcano that is part of the Virunga Mountains, a chain of volcanoes in East Africa. This volcano reaches an impressive 3,470 metres (11,384 feet) above sea level. Nyiragongo is special due to its persistent lava lake, one of the few of its kind in the whole of Africa.
Updated: April 17, 2015 8:40 AM [ET] | Originally published: April 9, 2015 3:59 AM EDT;
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in northern Virginia, marking the end of more than four years of hostilities that split the U.S. in two.
Now, 150 years later, TIME looks back at the American Civil War… in color. We commissioned Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway to restore and colorize some of the most iconic images shot, in black and white, during the Civil War.
Sony PlayStation Japan / YouTube If you want an in-depth breakdown of the technology behind the PlayStation 4’s Remote Play feature, which turns Sony’s PS Vita into an adjunct mini-PS4, Digital Foundry has a pretty thorough writeup here. I have one quibble with the site’s otherwise excellent overview: DF says the make-or-break issue with Remote Play is latency. I agree that latency’s an issue, but it’s not the make or break one.
The 'Teen Mom' star, who recently revealed she's more than the Kardashians, tells People magazine, "I don't really like to compare. I don't think that's fair because our journeys are so different. I do feel that I am happy, and I kind of feel like her family tries too much." Saying that the ways she's one-upped Kardashian West are "not so much about money," Abraham continued, "I mean, I'm not here to talk about all the top lists that I'm on and all the amazing heights that I'm reaching.
If he was dismissive of the aggressive expectations of superstardom on his seemingly love-themed sophomore effort, 'Apollo', he embraces most of the offerings of superstardom on his third album. While he occasionally reverts to his introverted tendencies, he revels in his ability to take a trip to Paris on a whim. It’s no coincidence that he sings about his rejection of smoking on ‘Peru,’ while he also admits that he prefers to do molly in the same breath.
According to reports, Shmurda, who is currently serving time at Rikers Island for both gun and drug charges, had his girlfriend smuggling a weapon to him in prison. New York Daily News reports that ''a guard allegedly saw Kimberly Rousseau, 18, pull a black latex glove balloon wrapped in black electrical tape out of her bra and hand it to him.'' When the guard later opened the balloon, he found a 'sharp metal object.
In a viral clip, the pair were seen walking out of the church together surrounded by a security detail. Once the clip hit the internet, social media users began to speculate that the pair are in a relationship. This time they seem convinced that the two are indeed romantically involved, with many deeming it as the only reason they would go to church together at all. ADVERTISEMENT
The 40-year-old man had gone missing in a suspected crocodile attack near the Annan River Bridge in Far North Queensland on Saturday afternoon. “A formal identification process is underway however it is believed that the remains were that of a missing 40-year-old New South Wales man,” Queensland police said in a statement. “Further testing will be conducted to determine a positive identity.” ADVERTISEMENT
Police added that the search and rescue operation for the missing man was suspended.