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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Credit Suisse secures $54 bln lifeline as authorities rush to prevent global bank crisis

(Reuters)
Credit Suisse, Zurich

Credit Suisse
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Credit issues
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US descries it
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Investing Academy Pro

The rise and stunning fall of Silicon Valley Bank

(Axios)
Silicon Valley Bank Run

The rise and stunning fall of Silicon Valley Bank
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Financing those bad venture loans finally kills!
Anagram: Dharam Khalsa
Image: Focal Foto

Facebook, Instagram parent company to cut another 10,000 workers

(USA Today)
Facebook Stocks Plunge

More Meta layoffs: Facebook, Instagram parent company to cut another 10,000 workers
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"Met a" cruel king. Name? Mark. Money? Ha, correct, tons! Boots staff. "Pay warfare" op, too
Anagram: Steve Allison
Image: Stock Catalog

Another atmospheric river

(CNN)
Clouds and fog over Grass Valley

Another atmospheric river
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Severe hot tropic rain harm
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Image: Larry Miller

This Is the Best Cardio Machine in the Gym, According to Research

(Runner's World)
Twitter 365 Project - Day 62

The treadmill is the best cardio machine in the gym
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It's science, and I'm told my heart might be healthier!
Anagram: Dharam Khalsa
Image: Lu_lu

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Victoria’s Secret Is Bringing Back Its Fashion Show

(Yahoo!)
Wear the Pink Bra Tonight

Victoria’s Secret Is Bringing Back Its Fashion Show
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OK, sir, it is chic fabrics! I view on stage bras 'n' thongs.
Anagram: Aronas Pinchas
Image: Thomas Hawk

Mental-health crisis from Covid pandemic was minimal - study

(BBC)
Photography burnout

Mental-health crisis from pandemic was minimal, study suggests
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Single test's claim which men admit may spur from using less data
Anagram: Josiah Winslow
Image: Four Bricks TallFollow

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

How Serena Williams’s SI Swimsuit Photo Shoot Inspired Reflections on Inner Beauty

(Sports Illustrated)

Serena Williams
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See all in warm SI
Anagram: Aronas Pinchas
Image: Sports Illustrated

Tesla cuts prices of Models X and S

(The Wall Street Journal)
_RII1901

Tesla cuts prices of Models X and S
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Cussed "most elite" X and S cars flop
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Image: Wilson Lam

Snakes, lizards and desserts meet in Malaysia's first reptile cafe

(Reuters)

Snakes, lizards and desserts meet in Malaysia's first reptile cafe
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Site stalks, massacres, freezes animals, and I read it's "Pet Friendly" (?)
Anagram: Dharam

Monday, March 6, 2023

One of the rarest whales in the world

(The Sacramento Bee)
North Pacific right whale (Balaena sieboldii) from Natural history of the cetaceans and other marine mammals of the western coast of North America (1872) by Charles Melville Scammon (1825-1911).

One of the rarest whales in the world
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W-well, it's not heard of near the shore!
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Image: Rawpixel

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Trump’s legacy: Republicans torn by infighting, revolts as 2024 looms

(Reuters)
Trump

Trump's legacy: Republicans torn by infighting
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Turbulent clips: Campaigning by frying others
Anagram: Dharam
Image: IoSonoUnaFotoCamera

Alex Murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his wife and son

(CNN)
alex-murdaugh

Richard Alexander Murdaugh
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Ah, drug hex, clan murder, a raid
Anagram: Steve Allison
Image: FITSnews

Saturday, March 4, 2023

CDC Health Advisory: Increase in Highly Drug-Resistant Shigellosis

(Contagion)
Shigella species on X.L.D. Agar

CDC Health Advisory: Increase in Highly Drug-Resistant Shigellosis
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God - shitty illness, hard to cure. His sign? Diarrhea, gas, even icy chills!
Anagram: Steve Allison
Image: Nathan Reading

Italian cyclist fined and suspended for killing San Marino tourism minister's cat

(Yahoo!)
Antonio Tiberi

The cyclist Antonio Tiberi
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O, I sin - hit cat, not celebrity!
Anagram: Aronas Pinchas
Image: Marc

More than half of humans on track to be overweight or obese by 2035 - report

(The Guardian)
Obesity in the US

More than half of humans on track to be overweight or obese by 2035 - report
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Hombres who overeat become fatty fat, huge or nonshrinkable torpor
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Global X

The Anagram Times Q&A with Steve Allison

Steve Allison, The Anagram Times reporter
From time to time we take you behind the scenes in the newsroom here at The Anagram Times and introduce you to our intrepid reporters. Today, let's meet Steve Allison.

Q How did you get into anagrams?
A A long-ago magazine article about you and your website - I loved it!

Q Do you remember the first anagram you made?
A No, but I remember thinking that it would be a near impossible task for me.

Q Do you have a favorite anagram?
A Having grown up with Vietnam and the Nixon/Agnew White House, I'm a fan of the classic "Spiro Agnew" anagram - "Grow a spine." The off-color variant makes me laugh, too...

Q How do you pick a news headline to anagram?
A I read news daily, and every once in a while a news caption strikes me as having a hidden angle - sarcasm, irony, and the like. If the caption is missing an essential letter or two, I use Google News to look for related articles which have the missing letter(s).

Q How do you make anagrams? Manually, software, a combination, etc.?
A I always start out manually, but after I've chopped it down about half way, using the essential words I want, I use the anagram engine to look for other candidate words, then finally anagrams with the remaining letters.

Q Describe the moment when you are working on anagramming a phrase and the last few letters just fall into place and you realize that you have an outstanding anagram on your hand.
A Like getting to the last piece in a large jigsaw puzzle and, miraculously, it fits the rest of the puzzle perfectly!

Q Approximately how long do you spend on an anagram?
A Usually about 30 minutes (but I throw away about 80% of what I start)

Q What do you do in your non-anagram life?
A Making music, writing poetry, woodworking, and hanging out with my wife, children (4) and grandchildren (8).

Q Some people use anagrams for divination. Do you think there's a mystical angle to anagrams?
A Writing of any form seems mystical - we can leave words as a legacy for future generations and we have benefited from the same! To me, anagrams overlap a bit with art, comedy, and poetry.

Selected anagrams from Steve Allison:

Kung Fu Nuns of Nepal Smash Convention

(The New York Times)
Kung Fu Nuns

Kung Fu Nuns of Nepal Smash Convention
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Nuns vs. Monks - Gonna hit? No, peaceful fun...
Anagram: Steve Allison
Image: Kung Fu Nuns

Friday, March 3, 2023

Disqualification From Office: Donald Trump v. the 39th Congress

(Lawfare)
Arrest Tump in NYC

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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Donald John Trump:
Indict The Bratty Chief Felon, Cheap, Cheater, Criminal, Inept, Insecure, Ruinous, Traitorous Tweeter, Hateful, Televised, Unesteemed, Embarrassed, Sore Loser, Soft, Primitive, Effete Boobies, Tiny Mushroom Tooled, Toothy, Toupeed, Unfit, Shiftiest Draft Dodger Son, Low IQ, Orange Con Artist Nonsense Rot Ass...
Please.
Anagram: Jonathan Marc Sherman
Image: Backbone Campaign