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Venus Williams krijgt wildcard voor Australian Open

MELBOURNE (ANP) - Tennisster Venus Williams krijgt een wildcard voor de Australian Open. Dat maakte de organisatie van het tennistoernooi bekend.

De 45-jarige Williams is de oudste vrouw ooit die aan de Australian Open meedoet. Het tennistoernooi begint op 18 januari.

Eerder kreeg ze een wildcard voor de Auckland Classic. Dat toernooi geldt als voorbereidingstoernooi op de Australian Open.


New Yorkse burgemeester Mamdani: 'We zullen stoutmoedig besturen'

NEW YORK (ANP) - De donderdag beëdigde burgemeester van New York, Zohran Mamdani, heeft beloofd "stoutmoedig" te besturen. Hij zei bij zijn inaugurele toespraak te willen aantonen dat linkse politiek kan slagen. "We zullen iets doen wat New Yorkers beter kunnen dan iedereen: we zullen een voorbeeld voor de wereld zijn."

In zijn toespraak beklemtoonde hij verder dat hij iets wil doen aan de kosten voor levensonderhoud en dat hij de mensen wil helpen "die zijn verraden door de gevestigde orde".

Zijn politieke tegenstander, president Donald Trump, noemde hij maar één keer, toen hij het had over de diversiteit van de stad en Trumpstemmers die op hem stemden.

Trump omschreef Mamdani onder andere als een "100 procent communistische gek". Na Mamdani's verkiezing spraken Trump en hij elkaar in het Witte Huis. Die ontmoeting noemde Trump "zeer productief". Volgens de president zal Mamdani "sommige conservatieven verbazen".

Ook de Democraten Bernie Sanders en Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spraken bij de beëdiging van Mamdani. Sanders dankte Mamdani "om ons van kust tot kust hoop en visie te geven dat we een regering tot stand kunnen brengen die voor ons allemaal werkt en niet alleen voor de rijken en de weinigen".


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Some of Your Cells Are Not Genetically Yours

Every human body contains a small population of cells that are not genetically its own -- cells that crossed the placenta during pregnancy and that persist for decades after birth. These "microchimeric" cells, named after the lion-goat-serpent hybrid of Greek mythology, have been found in every organ studied so far, though they are exceedingly rare: one such cell exists for every 10,000 to 1 million of a person's own cells.

The cells were first noticed in the late 1800s when pathologist Georg Schmorl described placenta-like "giant cells" in the lungs of people who had died from eclampsia. In 1969, researchers detected Y-chromosome-containing white blood cells in people who would later give birth to boys. For more than two decades, scientists presumed these cells were temporary. That changed in 1993 when geneticist Diana Bianchi found Y-chromosome cells in women who had given birth to sons up to 27 years earlier.

The cells appear to have regenerative properties, transforming into blood vessels or skin cells to promote wound healing. They also challenge a central assumption of immunology -- that the immune system classifies cells as either "self" or "non-self" and rejects foreign material. Microchimeric cells should trigger rejection but do not. Higher-than-typical concentrations have been found in people with autoimmune conditions including diabetes, lupus, and scleroderma.

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'The Cult of Costco'

Costco's consistency -- from its $1.50 hot dog and drink combo to its functional shopping carts and satisfied employees -- has produced what The Atlantic calls a "cultlike loyalty" among members at more than 600 locations across the U.S.

Its annual membership costs $65. The model traces back to Fedco, a nonprofit wholesale collective for federal employees founded in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Costco's private label Kirkland Signature has become one of the world's largest consumer packaged goods brands while maintaining deliberately understated branding. The company relies on word-of-mouth marketing from satisfied members rather than traditional advertising.

Atlantic staff writer Jake Lundberg, who shops at the Granger, Indiana location, describes the stores as spaces of "cooperation, courtesy, and grown-ups mostly acting like grown-ups." Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone. Checkout lines form orderly queues. The exceptions come near sample stations and before major holidays, when spatial awareness and common courtesy break down.

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And The Things You Can't Remember Tell The Things You Can't Forget

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handwritten on slide, “Jeanne on steps of Capitol Building" date stamped on slide December 1973

Shepard Fairey Has an Art Show

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