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12. 3. 2021 | Student Life Are you a PhD student or a junior scientist? And have you ever heard of predatory journals? If not, read on so that you know how to avoid dangers waiting for young inexperienced authors. Simply said, the term ‘predatory journals’ refers to fraudulent publications and it’s a growing issue recently. These deceitful publishers want to charge you money for publishing your research paper while trying to convince you that they’re a genuine scientific journal.

Ten years ago, Truman Capote angered his friends in the Concorde set by serving gossip from their private stock to hoi polloi. Anyone with the price of four issues of Esquire magazine could oink over the deviances of their social betters. Each issue carried a “chapter” of what Capote promised would be his most important work. He called it Answered Prayers and described it as a novel-in-progress about New York and European high society.

When Detroit’s pink-cheeked Lou Maxon, successful head of a successful advertising agency, took over as deputy OPAdministrator last February, he announced he would try to make rationing popular. This was a laudable ambition, roughly comparable in size to the job of draining the oceans. Lou Maxon did not succeed. In Washington, Maxon tried to make OPA popular even with businessmen. He reasoned: if OPA could only be rid of all its “slide-rule boys” and economic theorists, the agency would function smoothly.

The news was confirmed by his publicist Jennifer Allen in a statement to Variety. The actor was known for his role in the hit TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Homicide: Life on the Street, Men of a Certain Age and Glory. His very first screen role came as a union solider in the movie Glory in 1989. He then won an Emmy for his role as Detective Frank Pembleton on NBC’s Homicide: Life on Street in 1998, which was his last year on the series.

Chile’s Oscar-winning Fabula Films (“A Fantastic Woman”), the company co-founded by producer Juan de Dios Larraín and director-producer Pablo Larraín (“Jackie,” “No”), is producing “The Sorcerers,” which will be presented this week during the Rome-set film and TV market Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA).

Full Name: David Brian Cone Profession: Baseball Pitcher Biography: David Cone is a American professional baseball pitcher. Over his 17-year career, Cone played for five Major League Baseball teams, earned five All-Star selections, won the Cy Young Award, and was part of five World Series championship teams. After retiring, he became a commentator and co-authored a New York Times Best Selling autobiography. Cone began his MLB career in 1986 with the Kansas City Royals.

It may sound like a time-travel story, but it's the real deal in Ethiopia. But how does this work? The ancient Ethiopian calendar Ethiopia's calendar stretches all the way back to the 4th century BC. That's even older than the calendar most of us use today. The story begins around 8 years before the birth of Jesus Christ when a wise man named Dionysius Exiguus crafted the Gregorian calendar.

TIME June 15, 1959 12:00 AM GMT-4 ECUADOR Violence in Three Stages The hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people. Reprimanded by his commanding officer, Draftee José García Macías, 20, shot at him four times. When the officer Captain Galo Quevedo dropped to the ground, García concluded he had killed the captain and committed suicide.

Ideas October 10, 2017 11:29 AM EDT Samantha Cooney is the director of audience at TIME. Fifty Shades of Grey fans are getting a new installment — from the perspective of the series’ leading man, Christian Grey. Vintage Books announced on Tuesday that it will release Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told By Christian, a retelling of the erotic trilogy’s second book, on Nov. 28. It comes just months after the release of the film version of Fifty Shades Darker, which focuses on the relationship between Grey and Anastasia Steele as figures from their past come back into their lives.