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[OPINION] In 2022, over 5 billion fans tuned in to watch soccer’s biggest stars shine in Qatar. This year’s World Cup, which features an expanded format from 36 to 48 teams and increased accessibility to a North American audience, should far surpass this number.

To help the tournament run smoothly, FIFA has over 85,000 boots on the ground working directly in stadiums, with players, and with fans. However, many of these workers are this cycle’s iteration of FIFA’s volunteer program, utilizing local unpaid volunteers from host cities.
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[SCIENCE] Mental health and substance use disorders affect people from all walks of life and demographics. At least 23.1% of U.S. adults live with a mental illness, and at least 16.8% of Americans aged 12 years and older battled substance use disorder in 2024.

Yet, Dr. Jonathan Staloff, a primary care clinician at UW Harborview Family Medicine Clinic and a hospitalist physician at the UW Medical Center Northwest, noticed that patients with mental health conditions and substance use disorders tend to fall through the cracks of the healthcare system during transitions of care.
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[ARTS + CULTURE] Bad movies often come in one of two forms. There are those who, in their naïve sincerity, transcend their mediocrity and become something beautiful — and then there are those who are painfully aware of themselves and sink into the mud.

David Wain’s “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity S*x Pass” falls into the second camp. A star-studded loose retelling of “The Wizard of Oz,” “Gail Daughtry” sees the titular heroine (Zoey Deutch) leave her home in Kansas and embark on a journey across Los Angeles to have s*x with Jon Hamm. Along the way, Gail teams up with John Slattery (Hamm’s former “Mad Men” co-star, playing himself) and becomes entangled in the schemes of a Mafiosa (Sabrina Impacciatore) who seeks to destroy the world’s financial system. The film’s general vibe is that of a modern “Saturday Night Live” sketch that’s been drawn out to feature length.
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