Новости за 26.12.2016

Strauss Zelnick is a father, husband and media mogul who, at 59, somehow finds the time to stay in incredible shape. That's because he treats fitness with the same sense of priority that he gives business meetings and time with his family. 

Zelnick founded the private equity firm Zelnick Media Capital and also serves as CEO of ZMC's largest asset: video game developer Take-Two Interactive, which is responsible for such blockbuster hits as the "Grand Theft Auto" series, "Max Payne," and "WWE 2K."

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JOHANNESBURG — Amid population declines for many wildlife species in Africa, conservationists are sounding alarm bells for the cheetah, the fastest animal on land.

DETROIT (AP) — Maryland linebacker Shane Cockerille has been ruled ineligible to play in the Quick Lane Bowl. School officials declined to provide details before Monday's game against Boston College. Cockerille led the Terrapins with 108 tackles and ranked third in the Big Ten with nine tackles a game, earning honorable mention All-Big Ten recognition. The junior from Baltimore was converted into a linebacker after playing fullback and quarterback at Maryland. ___ More AP college football: http://collegefootball.ap.org... Читать дальше...

Nick Fitzgerald rushed for 142 yards and two touchdowns and Mississippi State held off Miami (Ohio) 17-16 with help from a blocked field goal in the closing seconds of the St. Petersburg Bowl on Monday. 

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say more than 40 people were shot over the holiday weekend and more than three dozen guns were seized.

PITTSBURGH — The image of Antonio Brown’s seemingly elastic left arm fighting off a pair of tacklers to stretch the ball across the goal line and send the Pittsburgh Steelers into the playoffs will live on. One more highly GIF-able moment in the star wide receiver’s weekly dance with the improbable.

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Pediatrician Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy uses a stethoscope and otoscope, of course. But running a clinic for transgender youth means her pediatric medical supplies also include a selection of silicone penises and chest-flattening binders.

Thanks to the openness of Caitlyn Jenner and others, public awareness of transgenderism — and demand for trans-specific medical care like counseling, hormone treatments, and genital surgery — is exploding, even for the youngest of patients. Читать дальше...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Amid population declines for many wildlife species in Africa, conservationists are sounding alarm bells for the cheetah, the fastest animal on land.

There's bad news for people who think it's safe to smoke a few cigarettes a day or even a week.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Son: Vera Rubin, astronomer whose pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates revealed existence of dark matter, has died.

Four people have been killed and more than 380,000 evacuated as Typhoon Nock-Ten brought howling winds and heavy rains to the Philippines.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the sphere of digital economy has significantly developed in recent years and the lag of EAEU in the global electronic commerce may negatively affect the competitiveness of its member states.

Ohio’s The Morning Journal had plenty of leftover Christmas jeer for its sports section of Monday’s paper.

(AP) — U.S. Air Force Capt. Nichole Stilwell described the day in the life of a pilot to a group of students at the Denbigh High School Aviation Academy on Dec. 20. The jet does not recognize a man or woman, only whether the person had command of its controls, she told roughly 35 girls who attended a question and answer session with her at the academy as part of Aviation Academy's magnet program. The magnet program is open to all incoming high school students in Newport News and covers four career tracks ... Читать дальше...

One morning in late August, at the peak of an unusually hot summer, I joined a group of scientists on the northern coast of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula to perform a fish census. We trudged over a dyke to a pristine beach just west of the mouth of the Elwha River. Chris Byrnes, a biologist with the nonprofit Coastal Watershed Institute (C.W.I.), and Sheri Washington, an intern, rowed a small skiff into a shallow pond. Byrnes manned the oars while Washington let out the seine, a net embroidered... Читать дальше...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There are times Ron Rivera watches Cam Newton throw a football and thinks he can be one of the best quarterbacks of all time. And there are other times the Panthers’ coach studies Newton’s release and says to himself, “Aw c’mon, you have to have better footwork.”

It ran out of fuel mid-air.