They protect your teeth, tongue, cheeks, and gums from damage or injuries during sports or from grinding or clenching your teeth. This article explores reasons to wear a mouth guard, as well as how to find the best-fitting mouth guard for your needs. Types There are three main types of mouth guards that are used to protect teeth: stock, boil-and-bite, and custom-made. Stock A stock mouth guard is the most widely available and affordable type of mouth guard....

Here is where the scandalized three- time MVP stands in his chase of historic numbers: MORE: A look at every MLB player suspended for PEDs HOME RUNS Currently: Fifth all time (654) Six to tie Willie Mays
60 to tie Babe Ruth HITS Currently: 32nd all time (2,939) Four to tie Frank Robinson
22 to tie Sam Crawford
48 to tie Sam Rice 61 to tie Roberto Clemente and join 3,000 club...

For managers in all kinds of businesses, it’s among the hardest decisions: what’s the right mix of labor and technology? Whether it’s an automobile plant deciding on the mix of million-dollar robots and unionized labor, or a bank deciding whether to replace more tellers with ATMs, finding the balance requires a clear understanding of the costs, quality and customer- satisfaction trade-offs of man versus machine. Going too far in either direction can be risky: remember the automated baggage-delivery system that wreaked havoc at Denver International?...

Well, probably not. Every year the turkey pardoning ceremony reminds the country that the president can pardon turkeys, but his record of mercy toward people inevitably comes up, too. Unfortunately for Trump – who is now both impeached and a lame duck – this Thanksgiving will likely renew media speculation about whether he might pardon himself and others now that the voters and the Democratic Congress have little influence left over him....

In multiple sclerosis (MS), a person’s immune system malfunctions and attacks nerve fibers and their protective myelin covering in the brain and spinal cord. Due to this abnormal immune system response, it’s reasonable to think that MS may be associated with increased cancer risk. While some research studies have found a link between MS and cancer risk, others have found no such connection. Some studies have even found a reduced risk of cancer in people with MS....

Pep hits out over Messi & Neymar claims Every club in the world does, and City knows as much as anybody - if not more so - that getting him from Barcelona would be incredibly difficult. But, unlike anybody else, City has long believed that Messi would want to join the side ahead of any other club in Europe. Pep Guardiola was less than impressed with a recent report that he called Messi and Neymar directly this summer - but if an opportunity comes around, he would jump at the chance....

Since that’s not likely to happen, MTV has provided the next best thing in the form of “The Paper,” a reality show premiering April 14 that chronicles the treachery behind the scenes of that dorkiest of high school institutions, the newspaper. The subject is the staff of the Circuit, the voice of Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Fla. It’s a drastic drop in status from “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills”—there’s no glamour to be found here....

Mudi dogs, which are medium-sized and shaggy, piqued the interest of a museum director who gave the breed its name around 1930. The breed’s fans describe them as hardworking, versatile and vigorous, with the ability to herd sheep and hunt boar and rats. They are also able to take part in canine sports like agility and dock diving. Kim Seiter, a dog agility trainer from Oak Ridge, New Jersey, who has four mudi dogs said that they’re “very perceptive, and they have a subtle quality....

Global icon Ali died at the age of 74 in Phoenix after the former world heavyweight champion was admitted to hospital earlier this week with a respiratory illness. MORE: Ali’s 10 greatest fights | Ali was the best America had Known simply as “The Greatest,” Ali battled Parkinson’s disease with incredible courage for more than 30 years. Hana Ali said his strength of character was still evident in the final moments of his incredible life....

The hornet species—the world’s largest—is native to eastern and southern portions of Asia, however, the insect was detected in British Columbia, Canada in September 2019, and subsequently, across the border in a single county of Washington state in December of that year. “I suspect if they are not stopped in Washington they will spread across the more temperate regions of the United States—basically, any place that approximates where they are already established, and, as they are closely related to our paper wasps, probably where those are established too,” Marc Lame, clinical associate professor at Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, told Newsweek....

There are many adjectives and expletives being thrown out from fans/critics about how Chip Kelly is remaking the Eagles this offseason. But there’s nothing bad that can be said about upgrading their running game with reigning league rushing champion, DeMarco Murray. Murray’s addition, agreed upon Thursday with a five-year, $42 million deal, isn’t just the Eagles strengthening themselves and weakening their NFC East rival Cowboys, Murray’s former team. It’s a reminder that through all of Kelly’s shrewd, swift moves, he has a well-grounded master plan — one that works....

When the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam transports Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” to its new Philips Wing sometime before Dec. 20 (for security reasons, it’s not saying exactly when), the scene will resemble a cross between a space-shuttle launch and a protected witness arriving at court to testify. The priceless painting will be covered with a sensor-studded, high-tech security blanket made by Philips (natch): 475 pounds of thermal insulation and humidity protection augmented, just in case, with a layer of police-vest Kevlar....

KARRIN ALLYSON In Blue The Kansas City native shows she’s learned from life’s vagaries on this superb disc. PETER CINCOTTI Peter Cincotti The 19-year-old phenom is a versatile singer and pianist. The next Norah, perhaps? PATRICIA BARBER Verse Her throaty vocals, love of wordplay and sheer inventiveness make Barber worth finding. KURT ELLING Flirting With Twilight With Elling, audaciously fast scatting meets soulful crooning. KARRIN ALLYSON In Blue The Kansas City native shows she’s learned from life’s vagaries on this superb disc....

SpaceX wants to test launch the world’s largest spacecraft, the Starship, at its Starbase facility that was built only a quarter mile from Boca Chica Beach in south Texas. Governor Greg Abbott also announced the news Tuesday, tweeting “SpaceX is closer to launching giant rocketship from Texas.” However, environmentalists warned that test launches that happen near public beaches cause damages to the Rio Grande Valley ecosystem from rocket explosions. The area is also home to sea turtles who nest there and endangered ocelots are also believed to live there....

The incident was caught on video by London Underground passenger Chris Atkins, who shared it on Twitter on November 22. The video showed a woman, later identified as Asma Shuweikh, confronting a man who was reading aloud a verse from Christian scripture to a Jewish family that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic and claiming that they were masquerading as the “true” descendants of the ancient biblical Israelites. In the video, the man could be heard loudly reading a verse from the New Testament to a man and a boy who were both wearing a kippah, the traditional Jewish skullcap....

In recent days the media has focused on MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), one of the more dangerous infections, which is blamed for the death of a 17-year-old high-school football player, among others. But MRSA is only a small part of the problem. There were 18,000 reported MRSA deaths in 2005—just a fraction of the nearly 100,000 deaths from all hospital-acquired infections. My first bout with one of these superbugs came in July 2006, when, a few days after surgery to repair damaged nose cartilage, I woke to find the entire right side of my face swollen and my right eye completely closed....

I just had occasion to spend time among the silenced, shunned, and canceled of the academy. What they said—or in some cases, conveyed through their silence—was profoundly disturbing. The impression they left about the state of our disproportionately influential elite academic institutions, and therefore what is to come in the disproportionately influential economic, cultural, and political institutions where their students will matriculate, is perhaps even more profoundly disturbing. My encounter with dissenters from the prevailing speech-stifling, intellectual freedom-thwarting orthodoxy on college campuses was somewhat inadvertent....

Storming in from the right defensive end, Garrett had done the job of terrorizing the QB spectacularly and probably had earned a chance to rest for the meaningless final series. He was still out there, though, and the third of those empty snaps will follow him the rest of his career. MORE: Steelers-Browns brawl: Complete list of fines, suspensions There will be no Pro Bowl for Garrett, an honor he’d earned in his second season and was bound to duplicate with this season’s 10 sacks....