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Today an estimated 13 million Americans have some form of the disease. As the population ages and life spans lengthen, the number will multiply. Doctors know little about AMD’s causes, and they have no cure. Still, there is hope. Last month the FDA approved Visudyne, the first drug to treat the most serious AMD. And scientists are actively researching other therapies. In the meantime the main challenge for patients is learning how to monitor the condition, and live with it....

On this seat-of-our pants adventure, the goal was to visit a town that started with every letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order. We dubbed it “Alphabet Tour” (original, eh?). This was back in the days of Rand McNally paper-and-ink maps, not double-tap-to-zoom Google maps on an iPhone. We did zero prep work. Just opened the atlas, found a town that started with an A and took off, out into the wild blue yonder....

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According to @mutantages on TikTok, the shapeshifting villain Mystique may have been hiding in plain sight throughout The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. He suggests that she was disguised as Sharon Carter all along, and there are a couple of possible clues that would support such a wild theory. For starters, Marvel had released a Madripoor-themed website ahead of the series debut and it featured several references to X-Men characters, including Mystique....

Falcons safety Ricardo Allen caught a Sam Bradford pass after it went through the hands of Eagles receiver Jordan Matthews to preserve a 26-24 win for the Falcons (1-0) at the Georgia Dome. MORE: Top images of Week 1 | LeSean McCoy organizes ‘Chip Kelly rejects’ photo “I’m so happy right now,” Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan told ESPN following the game. “Our defense stepped up at the end of the game....

This article explains symptoms, causes, and treatment options for fall allergies. Symptoms Fall allergy symptoms occur when your body produces excessive histamine, a chemical that protects your body from foreign substances. With allergies, the immune system misinterprets allergens as harmful and attacks them. This immune reaction results in many symptoms that can range from mild to severe, including: Congestion Runny nose Sneezing Cough Rashes Fatigue Headache Wheezing or shortness of breath...

More so than other battle royale games, Devolver Digital and Mediatonic’s colorful addition to the genre thrives on the chaos of dozens of people scrambling through its different minigames. A sizable part of the fun in Fall Guys is simply trying to move around the flow of other players, yet plenty of players have been giving themselves an unfair edge through a variety of hacks and cheats. These include hacks that let players move faster, hacks that let them float over obstacles, and hacks that protect them from being grabbed by other players....

For those wondering what’s next for Mediatonic following the launch of its recent viral phenomenon, the studio has just announced that it has opened a new studio in Leamington Spa in the UK and is hiring more staff to bolster its ranks. The new location will allegedly be led by the company’s vice president of Art, Phil Warner, and will supposedly be working on Fall Guys and a range of “other exciting projects....

Fall Guys: The Idol Games Dates The Idol Games are set to take place from Thursday, July 14 to Tuesday, July 19, 2022. This means that Fall Guys players have less than one week to claim the event’s rewards, and it is recommended that fans start working on its challenges sooner rather than later. Indeed, some challenges that are featured in the Idol Games may take a while to complete, and players will need to finish them all if they want to claim both halves of the Crown Idol costume....

This has included jokes about the impossible Fall Guys trophy being actually getting into five consecutive matches, as well as the “always has been” meme being used to reference the game’s servers being down. The Fall Guys Twitter account seems to be taking the criticism in stride, even sharing some of the memes itself while apologizing for the server issues and connection errors that have kept fans from being able to play the game so far this weekend....

As revealed back in February, the game’s new season is titled Fall Guys 4041 and features a retro-futuristic aesthetic. Players can expect the same zany antics across seven new levels, but the team has also thrown in some new modes based around the recently-unveiled squads functionality, allowing players to team up in groups of four. On top of all that, players can now compete in daily challenges to earn Fame and a new currency, Crown Shards, which can be transformed into Crowns if enough are collected....

NIELSEN: Yes, because no meaningful research has been done on a community in sensory deprivation. There’s no sense of time, no future or past. People go to sleep when they’re tired, get up when they’re awake. There’s no day-night cycle. There’s no telephone, no mail, no bills to pay. It’s freeing. You pay attention to what’s inside yourself–like people in a monastery–and to others around you. The information inside–I call it the voice of God–is inside each of us but we don’t know how to turn off the chaos of modern life long enough to hear it....

Ending the pandemic is at the top of Democrats’ to-do list, and it’s possible they could pass a relief package next week without support from Republicans. It’s critical that Biden’s administration makes visible progress on vaccine administration, a key factor in resuming a sense of normalcy, while also aggressively pushing an agenda that meaningfully affects minority communities. “The party in the White House traditionally loses seats in the first midterm,” Democratic strategist Michael Gordon told Newsweek....

Yuba County, in Northern California’s Sacramento Valley, is an outlier. In a state where more than 66 percent of residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Yuba lags horribly, at just 33.8 percent. Only three of California’s 58 counties have remained in the so-called red tier, indicating “substantial” transmission of the virus and requiring significant restrictions on how businesses may operate, with some closed altogether. Yuba is one of the three....

There was plenty of scope for improvement in the nation’s third largest school district. Fewer than half of all Chicago students ever graduate. Last year 51 of the city’s 64 public high schools scored in the lowest 4 percent nationally on the ACT, a standardized college-entrance exam. In the past two decades the budget had ballooned from $719 million to $2.3 billion while the student population had shrunk by nearly a third, largely because of white flight to private and parochial schools....

From COVID-19 conspiracy theories, to misleading reports on the conflict of Ukraine or how Trump “won” the 2020 election, there can be no doubt of the power that online forums, messaging services and social media have become hotbeds of mistruth. While governments have recognized the seriousness of the issue, many are getting pushback from the public over policy or political intervention that some see as draconian. A prominent example of this was the Biden administration’s failed attempt to introduce a “disinformation board....

Numerous possible explanations have been put forward for the lights, including a Russian laser weapon or a natural phenomenon. Belgorod is located about 25 miles north of the border with Ukraine. The Claim On October 4 and October 5, images and videos were posted to social media from residents in Belgorod showing how a yellow beam of light was shining high into the dark sky. The sky around the beam also appears to glow yellow....

At the virtual event, Biden announced a new target for the U.S. to cut emissions by 50 to 52 percent by 2030 compared with 2005 levels. The summit was followed by claims on social media that Biden plans to cut meat consumption in the U.S. to combat climate change. The Claim Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted on Saturday: “Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030....

Released by Project Veritas, the video includes what it says is undercover footage of a conversation detailing COVID mutation projects, designed to pre-emptively research potential new strains of the virus before they may find root naturally. In wake of this, many social media users have started to claim that the video proves that Pfizer is conducting these experiments actively. The Claim Multiple claims on social media, posted on January 26, 2023, suggest that Pfizer is currently mutating COVID variants in order to produce vaccines for future sale....

Oz and Fetterman are competing in a closely watched race for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, which could be crucial in deciding control of the chamber. The Claim Fetterman tweeted on August 31: “Dr. Oz was caught on a hot mic saying he’d ban abortion even in the cases of rape or incest.” “I’ve always been consistent: I’ll fight as hard as I can to protect women’s reproductive freedom + codify abortion rights into federal law....