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If you don’t love the World Cup, you haven’t heard the right story

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At this point, my family members are accustomed to my weird European sporting interests. Short of watching “Heated Rivalry,” you can’t get me into hockey, but I can give you a 15-year history of the F1 race team that was Force India. And when it comes to football, the only team I’ve watched compete at Soldier Field is Olympiakos, the Piraeus soccer team. So, when the World Cup rolls around every four years, I settle in. Greece didn’t qualify and I always had my doubts about the U.S. squad, so I quickly adopted Cape Verde as my team. I wasn’t alone, which is why it was ...

The future of gorillas depends on zoos working together

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Two Western lowland gorillas just arrived at Louisville Zoo’s Gorilla Forest from Zoo Knoxville in Knoxville, Tennessee. Obi and Andi are half-sisters and will hopefully create Louisville’s next family group with 29-year-old male gorilla, Kicho. Their arrival piqued my curiosity about how zoos coordinate for breeding purposes as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan Program. The Louisville Zoo once again welcomed me in to spend time with Steve Taylor, their assistant director of conservation. The zoo’s Gorilla Forest opened in 2002 and is considered ...

Dear Annie: Holding the office together alone

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Dear Annie: I work in a small office where our boss is almost never there. She comes in late, leaves early, works from home whenever she feels like it and is often “unavailable” when problems come up. Meanwhile, the rest of us are expected to answer clients, meet deadlines, handle emergencies and keep everything running. The frustrating part is that she still takes credit when things go well. When something goes wrong, however, she wants to know why “the team” dropped the ball. Last week, we had an upset client waiting on a decision only she could make. She finally showed up at ...

How Pennsylvania towns are protecting themselves from the noise, heat and utility costs of massive data centers

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Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and public backlash about where to build them. I’m a law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy. I’m also a native of Archbald, a borough of 7,500 residents in the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. My hometown has drawn national attention because of proposals for multiple data centers that would cover 14% of its area. Because of my professional and personal interest in data centers, I have been researching local responses to data center proposals across ...

Explaining the significance of Z- and T-scores in DEXA scans

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a woman of 54 with somewhat limited mobility due to back pain. Perhaps for this reason, my primary care physician ordered a DEXA scan in 2023 and again in 2026. I was alarmed when the recent scan showed osteopenia in five of the six areas that were tested. I thought the 2023 scan was normal, but when I revisited it, I saw that I had osteopenia then as well. But in the 2023 report, they had only looked for a Z-score of less than -2 as an indicator of a problem, whereas in 2026 they used the T-score. Had I realized that I had osteopenia three years ago, I’d have ...

More notable Havenites

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The late C. Grant Miller, founder of Mor-Car-Motors on the Bully, was a notable Havenite. One evening, sitting on a bench outside his car lot (now Dollar Tree), Grant departed intuitive words of wisdom: “Steve, sales is the only job where you write your own paycheck.” Later he grew Mor-Car into a Chrysler dealership. We stopped at “Sals,” (now Hanger 9) when a bothersome banker antagonized Grant. The annoying loan officer, along with tables and chairs, were soon strewn about the floor! The late Paul Mahoney, music lover and owner of Sals, up-righted the furniture like ...