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Ukraine Crisis Raises Stakes for Biden’s State of the Union Address

  
WSJ - 02.27.2022 Original article ›
Ken Thomas
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US president Biden's State of the Union address comes at a new inflection point in history for the US, the European Union and India. The Ukraine crisis and setting the US response, as well as US response to the neglect of infrastructure, healthcare, social cohesion during the last two decades.

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To Stop Food Waste, Pick a ‘Use-Up Day’

  
WSJ - 11.04.2021 Original article ›
Dan Ariely
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A 'Use Up' day to tackle food that gets wasted after going bad in the fridge, adding to the compost and greenhouse methane gas emissions from burning waste. Picking one day a week to create a meal from food that is already in the kitchen or fridge, that reduces waste.

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China, Long a Source of Deflation, Starts Raising Prices for the World

  
WSJ - 03.29.2021 Original article ›
Stella Yifan Xie
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Rising cost of raw materials and supply chain constraints are making many Chinese manufacturers to raise prices on products they export. Prices are being raised by 5% to 15% by exporters as their profit margins come under pressure. Much of the price increase is likely to be absorbed by retailers in importing countries.

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UK coronavirus alert level moving to 4

  
BBC News - 09.21.2020 Original article ›
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Britain sees the transmission rate for coronavirus in September "high or rising exponentially." The daily cases on September 21 reach 4,368 and the chief scientific and medical advisors to the government of Britain say this could double every 7 days if nothing is done to reach 50,000 cases a day.

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F.D.A. Authorizes First In-Home Test for Coronavirus

  
NYTimes.com - 04.21.2020 Original article ›
Katie Thomas, Natasha Singer
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The first home testing kits approved by the FDA are on their way in coming weeks to healthcare workers from LabCorp, says this report in NYT. A test is done at home and returned in an insulating packet to the lab. Cost $119. President Trump says the testing costs will be reimbursed.

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How are Japan-made vaccines shaping up? | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

  
NHK WORLD - 06.25.2021 Original article ›
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Japan is staying ahead in vaccine development with 5 vaccines under development including 1 MrNA vaccine. Vaccine makers using Japanese research are Shionogi, Anges, Daiichi Sankyo, KM Biologics, ID Pharm. Shoionogi also announced in May that it is working on vaccine for variants of coronavirus. Japanese vaccines were recently sent to Taiwan.

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Covid: Fully jabbed arrivals from France must still quarantine

  
BBC News - 07.16.2021 Original article ›
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Actions being taken in the UK to prevent spread from variants of coronavirus in July 2021 as increasing number of British tourists visit France, Greece and Portugal. Quarantine is now required at home for 8 days for vaccinated people from UK coming back from France because of a rise of cases in France

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WTO Sees Sharp Slowdown in Global Trade, Pointing to Possible Recession, Lower Inflation

  
WSJ - 10.05.2022 Original article ›
Paul Hannon
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Global trade flows should slow from 9% increase in 2021 to 3.5% in 2022 as the economies of EU, US and China slowdown, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO). This should also ease supply chain bottlenecks and inflationary price increases as demand declines across the EU, US, China and other countries.

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Crimea Bridge Explosion Disrupts Supply Route for Russian Forces

  
WSJ - 10.08.2022 Original article ›
Yaroslav Trofimov In Kyiv, Ukraine, , Ann M. Simmons In Moscow
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The Kerch bridge that connects Crimea to the Russian mainland is the main supply route to Crimea. Two of four lanes were damaged on the bridge by a major explosion. This disrupts traffic and supply of food and fuel to Russian occupied Crimea. Mr. Putin opened this bridge in 2018 after new construction.

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Russia-Ukraine updates: Germany pledges €200 million in new aid — report | DW | 04.09.2022

  
DW.COM - 09.04.2022 Original article ›
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Germany will provide Ukraine with $200 million for aid to internally displaced people. About 7 million people in Ukraine are internally displaced inside Ukraine. Most of the refugees are women, elderly and children. The internally displaced are in addition to the millions of people who are refugees in Poland and other countries.

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Lagarde Signals End to ECB’s Negative Interest Rates Experiment

  
WSJ - 05.23.2022 Original article ›
Tom Fairless
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The European Central Bank headed by Christine Lagarde is ending its 8 year experiment with negative interest rates. It will increase rates from negative to zero as a first step. The US Fed and central banks around the world are increasing rates with inflation and supply chain disruptions leading to higher prices.

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California Dairy Farmers Struggle to Stay in the ‘Got Milk’ State

  
WSJ - 12.05.2021 Original article ›
Jesse Newman / Photographs By Maggie Shannon For The Wall Street Journal
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Dairy farmers struggle against a historic drought in the San Joaquin Valley in California, that is driving up cost of water and cow feed. This north coastal region produces 90% of the milk in California. Dairy is California's biggest farm industry, bringing $20 billion to California's economy.

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Japan Explains How It Made an Upside-Down Moon Landing

  
NYTimes.com - 01.25.2024 Original article ›
Kenneth Chang, Hisako Ueno
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The moon landing was planned as sideways because of the uneven terrain, it landed upside down with its solar panels in a improper direction so that the energy needed for further activities is lacking. It is still considered an achievement because of the difficulty of the terrain in that part of the moon.

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An English City Gave Soccer to the World. Now It Wants Credit.

  
NYTimes.com - 02.16.2024 Original article ›
Rory Smith
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The city of Sheffield, a major city in the days of Britain's industrial revolution in the 19th  and early 20th century is where the game of soccer started. An effort to revive the city. NYT tells the story of soccer in a bygone era and its role in Sheffield.

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Breakthrough in nuclear fusion could mean ‘near-limitless energy’

  
The Guardian - 12.12.2022 Original article ›
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A nuclear fusion experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California where researchers have managed to release more energy than is used to heat the fuel with lasers. Nuclear fusion involves smashing together light elements such as hydrogen to form heavier elements releasing a burst of energy in the process. 

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Banks Are Risky. Silicon Valley Bank’s Risk Officer Was AWOL.

  
WSJ - 03.23.2023 Original article ›
Ben Cohen
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Before Silicon Valley Bank failed it was missing a Risk Manager for 8 months. This is incomprehensible considering that the San Francisco Fed had flagged risks at the bank in 2022. It is still not known why the bank had no Risk Manager and how risk management was conducted at the bank.

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1947 - Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru's Constituent Assembly Speech | Tryst with Destiny (English)

  
YouTube - 09.18.2023 Original article ›
Prasar Bharati
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Prasar Bharati takes the DoorDarshan archives to give this excellent rendering of the Nehru speech announcing India's freedom "at the stroke of the midnight hour when the world sleeps India awakes to life and freedom."  "A moment comes which comes but rarely in history..." 

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How a Four-Day Workweek Actually Works, From the Companies Pulling It Off

  
WSJ - 09.26.2023 Original article ›
Vanessa Fuhrmans
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Fewer meetings, busier days, fewer emails, and work that sometimes spills over into Fridays are ways in which companies are doing a 32 hour week. WSJ looks at companies doing a 32 hour week. The UAW has asked for a 32 hour week for workers at automobile companies Ford, GM and Stellantis.

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India thrash Pakistan by seven wickets: Cricket World Cup 2023 – as it happened

  
The Guardian - 10.14.2023 Original article ›
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After a promising start the Pakistan batting order collapses with 8 wickets lost for 36 runs over 78 balls. Player of the match is bowler Jasprit Bumrah with Rohit Sharma a close second for a fast paced 86 runs. It gives India a 7 wicket win with many overs to spare.

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Fed Holds Rates Steady and Pledges to Proceed Carefully

  
NYTimes.com - 11.01.2023 Original article ›
Jeanna Smialek
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The US central bank, the Fed, holds interest rates steady at 5.25% to 5.5%, while holding out the possibility of increasing rates in the future. Overall price increases have declined to 3.4% since September 2023, from 7% earlier, allowing the Fed more room to pause increase in interest rates to fight inflation.

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Ukraine War Slips Toward Violent Stalemate

  
WSJ - 11.12.2023 Original article ›
James Marson, Daniel Michaels
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Ukraine's effort to cut into Russian lines and divide them in two by reaching for the Sea of Azov has stalled. Russian offensives in the north and east are also stalled. Russia has set itself in a war economy and mobilized 400,000 soldiers giving it an advantage in numbers. 

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Rosalynn Carter: An Adviser in Her Own Right (Published 1978)

  
NYTimes.com - 11.20.2023 Original article ›
Martin Tolchin Special To The New York Times
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Rosalynn Carter attended Cabinet meetings and took notes. She said "If I did'nt, there is no way I could discuss things with Jimmy in an intelligent way." In some ways she was more active and advised on decisions made by the president than Eleanor Roosevelt with Franklin Roosevelt FDR.

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Coronavirus leads to record drop in German GDP | DW | 30.07.2020

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DW.COM - 07.30.2020 Original article ›
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Germany's second quarter GDP drops by 10.1%. For the year 2020 a 2.8% drop in GDP is expected. The jobless rate held steady at 6.4% unchanged from June. About 6.7 million people are enrolled in a German state funded furlough scheme in May up from 6.1 million in April.

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 Ex-Pioneer CEO Says FTC Used Him as ‘Scapegoat’ in Exxon Deal

  
WSJ - 05.28.2024 Original article ›
Collin Eaton
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Exxon added a provision not to add CEO of Pioneer Sheffield to its board, for FTC permission in closing a deal by Exxon to buy Pioneer for $60 billion in stock. This was after the FTC raised questions about the Pioneer CEO on collusion with OPEC to raise oil prices.

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This 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

  
NYTimes.com - 08.01.2024 Original article ›
Matthew Haag
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A sign of how high rise office building prices fell in 2024 in big cities in the US is the price of 135 West 50th Street 23 floor office building in New York City that sold for $332 million in 2006 and now sells for $8.2 million in an unusual online auction.

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