Both franchises led the NBA’s international expansion, and to stand out in the hockey-crazed country, the teams would need impressive logos and colorways to break through, but no one expected a red raptor or a grizzly bear outlined in Haida trim.
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Better Late
From straightening her teeth to finding her true love, Summer Block has reached the milestones in her life later than most.
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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
For one brown, queer Filipino-American, Karen Carpenters’ music anchored her to her musical family’s past while helping chart her path in their adopted Southern California.
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The Final Five Percent
If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials — but one neuroscientist discovers that assigning crime a biological basis creates more issues than it solves.
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Earth to Gwyneth Paltrow
Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s health and wellness empire, is being forced to address accusations of deceptive advertising.
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The Martha Stewarting of Powerful Women
How society disproportionately demonizes women after they’ve bent the same rules that men have always broken.
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Searching for The Sundays
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
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Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Three: The Widow’s Tale
When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.
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Almost Undefeated: The Forgotten Football Upset of 1976
How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.
