This summer's World Cup features a host of new initiatives designed to improve the spectator experience and match officiating, but the mandatory pausing of play in each half for a hydration break ...

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Lori Alan, actor/writer/producer, started talking as soon as she fell out of the womb, and hasn't stopped since. A native of the Washington, DC area, her passion for entertaining led the five-year-old ...