What inspired the outfits in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

[ad_1] In the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, Canada, Margaret Atwood, award-winning dystopian fiction author, fished out an article from a research folder. “Women forced to have babies,” Wertheim read aloud from a news clipping. “Communists are making women have babies,” Atwood clarified. “‘Persistent non-pregnancy will be considered a crime against the state,’”…

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11/9: Sunday Morning

[ad_1] Hosted by Jane Pauley. Featured: Research in early-onset Alzheimer’s, “Landman” star Billy Bob Thornton, “Hamnet” actress Jessie Buckley, the psychic wounds of returning World War II veterans, a U.S. flag collector, Faith Salie on the Internet meme “6-7,” and bonsai fall foliage. [ad_2] Source link

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MLB pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz charged with taking bribes to rig pitches for bettors

[ad_1] Federal criminal indictments against two Cleveland Guardians pitchers were unsealed Sunday for actions the two Major League Baseball players allegedly took in what prosecutors called “a scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown during Major League Baseball.” Federal agents said they arrested Luis Leandro Ortiz Ribera in Boston Sunday and also revealed the indictment…

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