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The story stays with you: A couch-bound man in his 30s has the most crucial kind of moment of clarity. He's disgusted with himself, the weight gain, the inevitable process of aging, the weakness and the fact that he's grown comfortable with it. He wanders out to the garage and fills an old duffel bag with bricks. Not so many bricks that he can't lift it, but enough bricks to get his body's attention. He heads out through the open garage door, with duffel bag slung over his shoulder.

Because do you really think George Clooney doesn’t want people looking at his ass? I saw George Clooney’s ass. Let’s just get that out of the way now. But to put a finer point on it and to be completely accurate, it must be said that when I finally got to meet Clooney in person, he was bending over in his black denim jeans and there I stood. My best friend, who lives in Beverly Hills, used to work in entertainment.

During an age of increasing autocracy around the world, Algeria’s ruling regime doesn’t inspire much confidence. In power since 1999, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has sailed into multiple terms thanks to constitutional changes critics say were aimed at keeping him head of state for life.

Addressing the Munich Security Conference in February, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned of a growing "hybrid war" waged by Russia "on different battlefields and at different speeds." Days later, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled new missile defense technology that Moscow claims is invincible. Both Poroshenko and Putin are prone to exaggeration, but neither was pulling things out of thin air.

You're watching miles of tranquility, as you sit on the roof terrace and drink in the scene. Small wooden boats, known here as pinasse, idle on the river surface as fishermen throw their nets. Larger boats pass through, carrying river sand, people and luggage. They're motored by outboard engines, but the noise does not take away that feeling of serenity.The Niger River is Mali's lifeline, its artery.

We pull into the parking lot. My daughter sits beside me, shoving Pringles into her mouth. This is a reconnaissance stop, before our official visit. We park for a moment, hardly breathing as we sit there.A few weeks ago, the headline of the local newspaper read, "Man charged with having 5 illegal guns." The story continued with police seizing said handguns during an investigation of an assault case. The man charged is my brother. I sobbed when I read the article and through the days that followed.

Dear Google Managers,Gbikes are well-known for being a planet-friendly solution for your staffers to use as they zip around Google's gigantic complex. But to the rest of us, they symbolize nothing but temptation. You've had to discourage visitors to your campus from joyriding, purportedly owing to liability issues. So how can you reasonably expect us mere humans - aka non-Googlers - to resist these brightly colored, two-wheeled treats? Two fix twoSource: Sean Culligan/OZYLeft: 800 W.

Since late 2016, lethwei has been my life. I love everything about it. The tradition. The ritual. The training. It's the purest form of combat out there, and if muay thai is the art of eight limbs, lethwei is the art of nine. The ninth point of contact? The head.But let me back up. If you weren't clear before now, this is all about bare-knuckle fighting in which the fighters not only throw punches, kicks, elbows and knees, but also head-butts are perfectly legal. CTE be damned.

OZY and JPMorgan Chase have partnered to take a deeper look at how businesses can impact society for the better. Enjoy the rest of our special series here.For many, high school is a pressure cooker, but things got especially heated for me during my junior year. As the child of Mexican immigrants, I felt I owed it to my parents to make a great life for myself. As it turned out, I had a narrow description of what a "great life" meant; I defined it as one thing and one thing only: becoming a doctor.

There's a special kind of narrative that goes along with how we understand sports figures: It's not that deep, nor that wide, but it's a handy shorthand for saying what'll stick before it moves on. For 6-foot-2, 212-pound forward Evander Kane, a Black Canadian, you can see it coming before the descriptors start to accrue from past press reports. The 26-year-old is "selfish," "distracting" and the word that really says it all without knowing what it's saying: "cocky.