Mark Teixeira, who has started to feel the symptoms of a severe cough dissipate over the last few days, hit two home runs to back a solid outing on the mound by C. C. Sabathia.

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Yankees 9, Athletics 2: Teixeira Does His Hacking With the Bat in a 9-2 Yankees Victory

Starting when he was 12 and lasting through 15 major league seasons as a pitcher, including time with the Red Sox and the Mets, Bob Ojeda has had an intense relationship with pain.

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The Former Met Bob Ojeda Relives Both Glory and Pain

A large fire that spread across 10 acres of the Mourne Mountains may have been started deliberately, the fire service says.

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Forest fire ‘may be deliberate’

Matt Smith, the star of the BBC drama Doctor Who, has started the eighth day of the Olympic torch relay from Cardiff.

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England manager Roy Hodgson confirms striker Andy Carroll and goalkeeper Rob Green will start against Norway on Saturday.

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Carroll and Green start in Norway

For this small group of fit folks with sunglasses, beach season begins as it always does, a week before Memorial Day in a small bathroom at the 10th Street Medical Center. One by one, a woman in a floral blouse and blue latex gloves calls them in and hands them a sterile cup. Read full article > >

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For Ocean City’s lifeguards, summer starts with beach boot camp

As is the Going Out Guide’s weekly ritual, we compiled a list of our favorite events this weekend , featuring a concert from Drake, a festival for strawberry season and the start of one of Washington’s best summer events. Read full article > >

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Drake, Delaplane Strawberry Festival: Things to do in D.C. this weekend

After Memorial Day, we start taking not-so-serious pop songs a lot more seriously. That’s when any old hit single suddenly becomes a contender for The Song of the Summer — that magical swatch of rhythm and melody that will define our hot months, for now and for posterity. Read full article > >

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Song of the Summer: Carly Rae Jepsen? Rita Ora? Icona Pop? Maybe a boy band?

When 4G services start rolling out next year, two million homes will find it affects their TV signal, Freeview boss warns.

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4G disruption threatens millions

Tens of thousands of protesters fill the streets of Montreal to mark 100 days since the start of protests against a rise in student tuition fees.

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A small clue to Bernice Bennett’s past leapt out at her from the computer screen, on a scanned ledger filled with addresses entered with the precision penmanship that is a lost art. It was 72 years ago that census workers fanned out across the country, visiting houses to personally count the 132 million people living in the United States in 1940. And now the National Archives has opened up the once-confidential details of daily life in a nation living in the vise of economic collapse and impending war. Read full article > >

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1940 census draws historians and genealogists

Two men charged with the murder of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius last year plead not guilty at the start of their trial.

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Michaela suspects deny murder

Facebook’s debut on Wall Street last week may have been so-so. But on Monday, it officially flopped. Shares dropped 11 percent from the original starting price. For the social networking company, which declares that its mission is to “make the world more open and connected,” the investors had a pointed response: Put up or shut up. Read full article > >

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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a Bay Area writer and editor. Her first book Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the Foods We Hate , a humorous non-fiction narrative and exposé on the lives of picky eaters, will be released by Perigee Books on July 3. My husband is a calculus professor and one who brings food items into the classroom with surprising regularity. No, he doesn't bring pies on Pi day – though he can recite the string up to a couple dozen digits – but he does bring Pringles. As a teaching aid. This afternoon when I walked into his study, I nearly tripped over a plastic Safeway bag filled with six red cans of Pringles. “Is it Pringles Day already?” I asked, nudging the bag. Pringles Day is the day Dr. Mathra lectures on the classification of critical points in multivariable calculus , and he uses the saddle-shaped Pringles to illustrate his points. After class, the students get to eat his illustrations. It's their favorite day. However, this Pringles Eve, Dr. Mathra is kicking himself because in addition to stocking up on Pringles, which were invented by Proctor & Gamble & heaven in the 1960s, he also got an oblong can of Lays Stax, the parvenu potato chip that's only been around since 2003. Personally, I've never been turned on by Lays Stax. Not only are they covered with the stink of being the unoriginal upstart that is so obviously trying to rip-off the adored-for-decades potato chip, but they're not thin and delicate enough, they're not oily enough, and they're not addictive enough. However, none of the above is Dr. Mathra's complaint with them. “It's ridiculous!” he fumed, “They set themselves up as a Pringles competitor, but it's an entirely different curvature!” The shape of the Lays Stax – known as a parabolic cylinder – is way less mathematically interesting than the hyperbolic paraboloid of a Pringles, which is also known as a saddle. In math, the Pringles saddle shape exemplifies how you can stand at the flat point of a surface and not be at the highest point of your surroundings or at the lowest point of your surroundings. Basically, you could call the saddle “the taint” of critical points. T'aint the highest point, t'aint the lowest. “Um, sure. If you wanted to be crass about it,” Dr. Mathra mumbles. The big three types of critical points in multivariable calculus are the bottom of a bowl (aka the local min), the top of a dome (the local max), or in the middle of a saddle (saddle point). “The Lays Stax shape isn't even as interesting as a bowl – it's a wishy-washy bowl. I mean, you can make the Lays shape with a piece of paper ,” Dr. Mathra explains. (In my twelve years of being married to him, I have frequently found that being able to make something with paper is met with derision.) See, you can't replicate the Pringles saddle shape with a piece of paper without cutting the paper and actually adding more paper to it and that makes it more mathematically desirable. Sensing he has my attention throughout all of this raving, Dr. Mathra continues, “They've got these Lays Stax right next to the Pringles as though they are equivalent. How can they do that? One is a positive semi-definite quadratic form and the other is an indefinite quadratic form – they're not even the same definiteness!” When I don't react, he insists, “Oh, come on – that will KILL in class tomorrow!” And why should you, the non-calculus student, care about the Pringles saddle form? The principal application of calculus is optimizing, or determining whether you are at a maximum. You use calculus whenever you want to optimize, well, anything. “If you are at a local max (the top of a dome), everywhere you go moves you down. If you're at a saddle, there's a way you can go that will take you up.” Knowing this is important when thinking about increasing filthy lucre, precious time, diminishing resources, or a supply of Pringles. And that, my friends, is why Pringles will always, always beat Lays Stax. Flavor is subjective. Math is irrefutable.

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Saddle up for maximum snack satisfaction (mathematically speaking)

Mental health charities say they have seen a surge in calls to their helplines since the start of the recession.

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Calls to mental health lines rise