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There's a scene in the 1990 movie Awakenings, about Dr Oliver Sacks' investigations into the epidemic of sleeping sickness in which Robin Williams – who plays a character based on Sacks – muses on the evidence. “You'd think,” he says, “at a certain point all these atypical somethings would amount to a typical something.”I hear some version of that in my mind every time I see another documentary about predatory men and their abuse of (almost invariably) women and children, hidden in plain sight as they go about their life-wrecking business with impunity, often for decades. Michael Jackson, R Kelly, Jimmy Savile, various rock legends, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein are among the most recent, but the list could go on and will undoubtedly be added to in the future.The latest entrant...

Updated Friday, June 24, 2022 - 22:46Among them are JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank on Wall Street; the entertainment giant Walt Disney or the technology companies Netflix and MetaA pro-abortion activist during a protest against the Supreme Court decision.ETIENNE LAURENTEFEUSA The US Supreme Court strikes down the right to abortion Several companies in the United States took a step forward this Friday and offered their workers reimburse the cost of travel to access a legal abortion in the country after the historic ruling of the Supreme Court, which revokes federal protections for this reproductive right.Among them stood out JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank on Wall Street; the entertainment giant waltdisney or the technological Netflix and Meta, They join other firms that announced s...

EP Updated:06/24/2022 9:58 p.m. Save Related newsThe President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenhas announced this Friday that it will present an emergency plan in July to coordinate the way in which the gas supply in the different European countriesfollowing Russia's decision to reduce the flow of gas supply to the community market."We are working on a common European plan to reduce demand with the industry but also with the twenty-seven Member States", announced the President of the Community Executive, at a press conference after the Summit of EU leaders, making a comparison with the joint response that the countries proposed to Covid.The President of the Community Executive has added that she will present this plan to the c...

ABC_NCascais (Portugal) Updated:06/24/2022 9:55 p.m. Save Platoon does not give the Rolex TP52 World Championship for lost. On the contrary: he has added a good dose of spice to a regatta that seemed like a Quantum Racing monologue. Harm Müller-Spreer's boat today came within three points of Doug DeVos' after winning the second heat while the World Cup still has two exciting rounds to go tomorrow in the waters of the Clube Naval de Cascais. The first test of the day was won by Takashi Okura's Sled, who was the best boat on the water today, with a first and a third.Platoon arrived at the start of the eighth round in Cascais eight points behind Quantum Racing. But a puncture by the Americans and the victory of the Germans in an arduous figh...