A stricture is a narrowed section in the intestines. The intestines are normally an open tube (much like a hose) that allows food to pass through and become digested. For people with Crohn’s disease, the ​small intestine can become narrowed over time as inflammation causes scarring. The scars in the small intestine can become so prevalent that they actually start to block the open space inside, causing a stricture....

Front Row Motorsports filled its No. 34 car for the next several weeks on Wednesday, making the expected announcement it would have Moffitt in place while David Ragan drives for Joe Gibbs Racing. The season’s third race is Sunday at Las Vegas. The following races are at Phoenix on March 15 and Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., on March 22. MORE: Photos from Vegas races | Odds; thank you, thank you very much | Sprint Cup schedule...

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARTING SHOT WITH H. ALAN SCOTT ON APPLE PODCASTS OR SPOTIFY The Estate really is an ensemble piece. Was that something that appealed to you? I like to find the chemistry between the different actors that I’m working with. That’s part of the joy of working. I don’t want to sound pretentious, [saying it’s] like playing different instruments, but you are, because everybody is a different thing....

But while they probably don’t worry about it, Saturday wasn’t the first time, nor will it be the last, that they will have that accusation thrown at them. In the heated moments following a wreck Saturday with Ty Dillon during the Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville, Kevin Harvick, who has driven in Cup at RCR for the last 13 years, called them “punk-ass kids” and cited them as the reason he will leave RCR after this season for Stewart-Haas Racing....

That’s because each state recognizes marriages performed in any other state. A couple marrying on Oahu will be legally wed, entitled to everything from the tax breaks to the insurance benefits of marriage, from Fisherman’s Wharf to Greenwich, Conn. If that happens, gays will have accomplished in court what they failed to do in legislatures and the court of public opinion: while Americans say they favor gay rights, a large majority opposes gay marriage’ Any move by the courts to legalize it may well spawn fierce protests....

Maybe only one thing will open his eyes and ears: unemployment. The Washington Redskins decided to bring the safety back this season, albeit for one year and $1 million. He couldn’t even get out of the preseason without being disciplined by the NFL for the third time in the last 11 months — this time, a suspension handed down on Monday for the first two regular-season games, for a blow to the head of the Ravens’ Torrey Smith in Saturday’s preseason game....

Unfortunately, evolutionary biology holds out no such promises. There’s no strong reason to think human beings will be getting noticeably smarter in the future, because there’s no evidence that they’ve been getting smarter up until now. Biologists calculate intelligence indirectly, from the ratio of brain to body size. That figure, which expanded rapidly beginning about 500,000 years ago, appears to have reached a peak and leveled off within the last $0,000 years....

On Wednesday the Mavericks, who missed out on free agents Dwight Howard and Deron Williams the last two offseasons, turned their sights to the far end of Route 45, attempting to nab Rockets restricted free-agent forward Chandler Parsons by lining up to sign him to a three-year offer reportedly worth $45 million. MORE: Parsons’ offer sheet | No LeBron decision yet | Melo back to New York? This has upset the Rockets’ pending plan for NBA domination, which seemed to be on track as James leans ever closer to a return to the Cavaliers....

Not that you could have bought Chile’s stocks 15 years ago. Latin American mutual funds have been slow to develop. The Mexico Fund broke out of the gate in 1981 but it took until 1988 and 1989 for the Brazil and Chile funds to follow. When they finally did, norteamericanos barely noticed. Even Mexico’s dazzling performance of the past seven years - stocks up 1,034 percent in U.S. dollars, for an annual compound average return of 41....

Yet as the draft rolled on to the third day and the late rounds, the Jets kept picking, kept trading, kept moving around … and kept taking everybody except quarterbacks. When they took their final player Saturday afternoon, they had stockpiled fifth- and sixth-round picks, filled needs in their secondary, got help with pass catchers … but still had the same underwhelming people throwing to them. And that’s a good thing....

Other long-in-the-tooth groups, including Santana, the Allman Brothers, The Band and Crosby, Stills & Nash, have signed on. In case that lineup seems too parental for the twentysomething generation, the promoters have also booked Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aerosmith, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Nine-Inch Nails, the Spin Doctors and Melissa Etheridge. A smaller festival, with mellow folkies like Judy Collins and Tom Paxton, is planned for Bethel, N.Y., the site of the original concert....

Rimac Automobili, the car making division of Bugatti Rimac, has just begun deliveries of its Nevera electric hypercar. Unlike some new electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers, the company isn’t giving its audience a peek at the best first, then lesser variants later. The Nevera is just its beginning. But, it’s not quite the beginning. For a company often described as a start up, Rimac is awfully old. Aside from the fact that half its parent company was founded in 1909....

The New Orleans Saints' executives likely agree with that notion, but we don't think we'll hear any complaining. It's vacation time, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Teams don't change their minds on draft prospects as much as we perceive them to. That combined with the idea that teams are used to a smaller time window to evaluate players and make decisions makes the Saints' trip not much of a surprise, or a big deal....

“I hired him and I worked out with him a couple times and he had my shot all screwed up,” recalled Hill in an interview with Sporting News. “I hate saying that, but it’s the truth. So I was down at Duke during the lockout, before training camp was supposed to start. Johnnie Dawkins was putting me and Thomas Hill through a workout, part shooting, part just staying in shape....

The pumped-up proselytizer—he looks more like a white rapper than an evangelist—sports a tough Jersey accent and a swagger that would make Tony Soprano proud. He screams, taunts and humiliates half-filled rooms at spiritual retreats across the country, hoping to “motivate” teens into accepting Jesus into their lives. Though his ministry, called Hard as Nails, is aimed at Catholic teens, he sounds like an evangelical. His tactics include drill-sergeant-like assaults: “If you sin, you better have the courage to bash Jesus’ face in!...

This image is part of “Belonging: Voices of London’s Refugees” (through February 2007), a powerful new exhibit at the Museum of London that captures the refugee experience in the British capital. Drawing on more than 150 interviews in 15 languages, the result is a fascinating mosaic of the cultures representing London today. “The voices of refugees are often missing from the debate about immigration [in this country] so we wanted to inject them back into the discussion,” says Annette Day, the exhibition’s curator....

NEWSWEEK: On the whole, are the world’s forests on the way back? Pekka Kauppi: It’s not happening yet. The world is still losing forests and has a negative balance. But the balance could become positive if changes are made. We want to show that this is a feasible scenario that can happen within 30 years. Deforestation will come to an end ultimately. The pace of deforestation today is about 10 million hectares per year (nearly 39,000 square miles)....

Barca beat 10-man Valencia at Camp Nou After his move from Santos in 2013, Neymar scored 15 goals in 48 appearances for the Catalan club in his debut season. He then hit 39 in 51 games as the Blaugrana claimed the treble in 2014-15. In his third campaign, he added another 31 in 49 - but finished behind Messi (41) and Suarez (59). This term, he has a somewhat modest total of 14 from his 35 games - easily his poorest return since that first season at Camp Nou....