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Yahoo Sports | Jack Baer: If you haven’t heard, the Astros are in town. In the first meeting between the Yankees and Houston since the latter’s banging scheme was exposed, the Astros were treated to raucous boos from the Bronx faithful. Some fans got creative with taunting signs, a few trash can props were confiscated, and jeers rained down particularly hard on Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa, and Jose Altuve. For one night at least, some found catharsis in berating the one team in the league fans now love to hate as much or more than the Yankees themselves.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Bob Li says, For America to keep growing stronger, it is essential that we stand in solidarity and speak out against all forms of racism and discrimination.
In 2014, Bob Li was a medical oncology clinical research fellow at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, one of the best in the country. His career was just budding. He and his wife had friends and family members nearby. Life was comfortable.
But Dr. Li saw opportunity in America. He applied for a fellowship halfway across the world at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
“In the oncology world, MSK is like Mount Everest, ” he says.
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Among the world’s great sandwiches without a serious New York City presence, the roti john, like the one chef Amy Pryke serves at Native Noodles in Washington Heights, surely ranks near the top.
As one of the apocryphal origin stories of the dish goes, an Englishman in the late 1960s asked a Malay hawker in Singapore for a hamburger. The hawker didn’t have any burgers, so instead he fried together a concoction of minced mutton, eggs, and onions and pressed it into a baguette. And thus the roti john was supposedly born, a sandwich that Singaporeans often consume for breakfast. “John,” it should be noted, is a Southeast Asian slang term for a white man, as Pryke explains in John Wang’s cookbook anthology,
As New York State hospitals began to fear the worst last spring that the pace of the coronavirus would overtake their ability to discharge patients and clear beds they had to decide what to do with people being admitted for acute psychiatric care.
In the second week of March 2020, only 325 New Yorkers had tested positive for COVID-19 but images from abroad and the pace of infection outlined a worrying forecast. By the end of the week, New York would confirm its first casualty from a virus that has deeply strained the health-care system and claimed more than 51,000 lives statewide.