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With the sports world effectively shut down for the foreseeable future amid coronavirus (COVID-19, if you’re fancy) pandemic, there’s a good chance that you’ll definitely be smart and stay indoors, away from the world and definitely not transmitting the illness to anyone. Please. Be smart. So while it definitely sucks that coronavirus is spreading and has postponed, suspended or delayed all the major sports, the good thing about “social distancing” is that it lends more time for you to veg out on the couch with a cold brew and really get your money’s worth out of your Netflix sub....

Cluster bombs open as they drop, releasing 202 bomblets the size of soda cans. At least 5 percent fail to go off, and State Department officials estimate that as many as 11,000 of the bomblets may be scattered across Kosovo. “Where they land is random,” says a U.S. mine expert. “You can’t even survey them.” In the northern Adriatic, where allied pilots dumped bombs rather than land with them, fishing has been temporarily banned, and much of Italy’s scenic Lago di Garda is also off-limits....

Until World War II, Reggio was known more for the quality of its wine and ham than for the excellence of its schools. But as the Germans retreated, the women of Reggio decided to build a school from the rubble. In Villa Cella, then a borough of Reggio, parents and children gathered stones and sand from the river, made bricks and hauled wood. In 1946 a teacher named Loris Malaguzzi rode over on his bicycle to take a look at the work in progress....

Once again Sutarto, 54, refused. The stocky, U.S.-trained military leader is no fool: he knows that martial law is “bad for the nation.” He also recognizes that the military must transform itself into a more disciplined and professional outfit under civilian control. Sutarto gave Wahid no choice but to abide by the Constitution. Relieved Indonesians hailed Sutarto’s stand. “The military is acting responsibly,” says political analyst Dewi Fortuna Anwar. Adds Juwono Sudarsono, Wahid’s former Defense minister: “Ironically, people now see the military as the defender of democracy against the president’s authoritarian threats....

He was staying at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where rooms start at $300 a night. At the end of the evening I went to the hotel with him in his rented red convertible Mustang, but I didn’t want to sleep with him. I just wanted to hang out; I wasn’t sexually attracted to him. I was trying to be his friend. He fixed me a Cape Cod, which is cranberry juice and vodka....

A project this vast and this visible prompts some grousing, too. Locals wonder if the Getty will be an accessible cultural Acropolis or a fortress of elitism. (Actually, the museum will be free, but, this being L.A., you’ll have to pay to park and you’ll have to reserve a spot in advance.) People shake their heads over the astonishing sums of money lavished on the project. When the eccentric tycoon J....

Newdom and Filipski are leading a wave of openly gay and lesbian baby boomers just starting to ponder their golden years. Demographers estimate that there are already 1 million to 3 million gay and lesbian seniors–a number expected to skyrocket in the next 15 years. While the majority of straight seniors are cared for by spouses and children, gay seniors often lack those family ties. “We are particularly vulnerable as we get older,” says Terry Kaelber of Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE), an advocacy group for gay seniors....

But over the weekend a problem arose that could complicate Thomas’s chances. Newsday and National Public Radio reported that a woman who had worked for Thomas at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the early 1980s complained that Thomas had sexually harassed her. The woman, Anita Hill, now a professor at the University of Oklahoma Law School, claimed Thomas, who was separated from his wife at the time, made suggestive remarks and urged her to date him....

The report, published in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), concluded that men with typical male pattern baldness-that is, spreading outward from the crown or “vertex” of the head-are anywhere from 30 to 300 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack than men with little or no hair loss at all. There was no apparent risk for those with the receding hairlines etched by frontal baldness. And researchers were also quick to point out that what they’d found was a strictly statistical relationship between hair loss and heart disease....

Archuleta was to be married this past June, and left behind her 4-year-old son, Donnie. She was a community kid–Girl Scouts, third-degree black belt in karate. At 7 she’d announced her intention to become the country’s first female president. At 20, she became the first female University of New Mexico ROTC graduate to earn her pilot’s wings. “She wasn’t happy unless she was rising to the top,” says her father....

Now support for this campaign from the Clinton administration could well doom one of the last free rides in air travel. Two years ago a White House commission recommended that the FAA eliminate the waiver for small children. Later this year the FAA will probably propose requiring car-seat type restraints for kids. The rule, if it takes effect, would end the lap routine. Parents can then count on shelling out not just for an additional ticket, but perhaps another $40 for an aircraft-compatible restraint: the airlines don’t supply them....

The Sopranos is a crime drama focused on the life of Tony Soprano, an Italian-American mafia head based out of New Jersey, which doesn’t sound like it would mesh well with Skyrim’s high fantasy setting. Despite the clash of genres, the characters remain recognizable and vivid when transposed into the game. Though each individual video is quite short, this mash-up of TV show and video game is every bit as intricate as the wood-burning Skyrim map another fan made....

According to a new report from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), the man had decided to discharge himself from the hospital after being treated with nuclear medicine. Because of the radioactive isotopes involved, he was advised to only use a toilet. But he ignored his doctor’s orders and relieved himself in the yard. “Communication issues with the patient were identified as a factor in this incident,” the report indicated....

Morales’s political rise represents yet another diplomatic headache for the United States in Latin America. Like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Argentina’s Nestor Kirchner, who has endeared himself to his countrymen by talking tough to the International Monetary Fund, Morales frequently rails at the IMF and Washington for their “neoliberal” economic policies. Morales calls for a “fundamental redistribution of wealth.” If elected, he tells NEWSWEEK, he vows to reverse many of the free-market reforms that his country has adopted....

Then-coach George Karl said this week his team almost added Clyde Drexler in a midseason blockbuster deal and claimed he wanted the trade to go through before team president Wally Walker got cold feet. Instead, Drexler went to Houston and won a championship. Seattle lost in the first round that season but perhaps could have made a deeper run with the offensive support of Drexler. The next year, when Michael Jordan beat the Sonics in a six-game Finals series, the team could have also used Drexler as a difference maker....

What has defined the series so far is its close ties to consoles and PC. It has moved with consoles through the ages, from the original PlayStation for the first game to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch in the latest title. Sure, Crash has dabbled with mobile in the past, but these were primarily on legacy platforms. The only games available on smartphones were from a Mario Kart-style spin-off....

Berlusconi wants Italy to be “the best friend America has,” but he also wants to shake up his neighbors. A conservative among socialists, he’s no admirer of the European welfare state. Rather than regulate, he prefers free markets. His first overseas visit will be to the White House, and Bush is rumored to be making an Italian stopover next month. Some see Berlusconi’s victory as a major step against a European superstate and especially the euro....

An analysis of several specimens conducted by Ana Costa—a marine researcher with the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami—and colleagues found that the new subspecies is smaller than other common bottlenose dolphins. In a study published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, the scientists named the new subspecies the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) bottlenose dolphin, or Tursiops truncatus nuuanu in scientific terms....

Tabletop gaming has seen a huge resurgence in recent years with the growth of titles like Dungeons and Dragons blurring the line between tabletop and video game franchises. Now more than ever, the Pokemon series is primed to capitalize on this surge in popularity for the tabletop medium riding off the recent release of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and its upcoming TCG expansion. It has never been a better time to give the Pokemon Master Trainer series another shot....