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If there's a sunny place for shady people I'm going to find it. If humans are tribal, then my sense of belonging to this tribe has been a lifelong bug. I could blame Jack Kerouac for his stated appreciation for "the mad ones ... the ones who are mad to live," but I can't abide by the commonplace he pegs as the counter to the madness he prefers. Which means driving around Puerto Rico with my then-girlfriend looking for trouble and somewhere cool. Something off the beaten path.

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Hierarchies are everywhere, from family-run businesses to multinationals, and under the spotlight as never before. On the plus side, command chains enable control and coordination. They also have many drawbacks, as the British academic John Child highlights in his recently published book, Hierarchy.

The entire ring was engulfed in a blizzard of gold confetti. Somewhere in the middle of the glitter stood 21-year-old Nong Stamp. She had just become the first fighter in ONE Championship history to win titles in two different disciplines — Muay Thai and kickboxing — and with a belt slung over each shoulder, she was being celebrated accordingly. It looked a bit like the last scene in a movie. The fighter had scaled her Everest; it had been done.

In 1915, H.O. Fishback, the county commissioner for Washington state, refused to pay $1.75 to provide ice cream to inmates at the county jail. "Ice cream is a little too good for prisoners," he said, suggesting that if they needed a treat, pies should be provided instead. "And thus another question in the prison reform movement is introduced," reported the Ice Cream Trade Journal. For as long as there have been prisons, the amenities offered to inmates have varied greatly.

Guns are weird things.Weird because sometimes their symbolic impact gets in the way of any attempt to understand them, as they fundamentally are tools with which we build nothing but extensions of our desire for the world to hew to our own designs. In other words: They're ways to make a point. They also occupy a space, at least in the American mind, that's damn near totemic.

Because this is a good way to put children on the right track to handle their emotions and stress. When Carol Ewen, a school psychologist in Missoula, Montana, walks into the elementary classroom of a teacher she’s trained in the PAX Good Behavior Game (PAX GBG), she might find students crawling around on the floor like babies or acknowledging a “Spleem.

Hours before India's Home Minister Amit Shah announced the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special autonomy on Aug. 5, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had snapped all telecommunication lines between the contested region of 7 million people and the outside world. More than a month later, much of that communications blockade remains in place. But while that blackout has drawn global headlines, it's far from unique.

College football has morphed into the NBA. Yes, you read that correctly. At face value, the comparison makes little sense. How is a sport full of unpaid amateurs, most of whom will never earn a professional paycheck, anything like the National Basketball Association? From gameplay and the 82-game season to the fame and fortune, it's not.

Alcohol sales in the U.S. are in steady decline - they've gone down three years in a row. Experts say health and wellness concerns are turning people away. But brewers may finally have found the savior they've been desperately seeking.Recreational cannabis use is legal in 11 of the United States, Guam and the District of Columbia.