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Ford Motor is building a manufacturing plant for EV cars on a 3600 acre site in Stanton, Tennessee. This will add 6000 jobs to this part of rural Tennessee.

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NASA technologists say cost constrains can be useful in planning moon missions. India's Chandrayan 3 cost $70 million for the moonlanding and the Vikram rover scientific research on the lunar surface. Progress is made through an incremental approach as Chandrayan 2 was based on the lessons from Chandrayan 1 which lost contact from lunar orbit, and Chandrayan 3 learning from the landing failure on the lunar surface of Chandrayan 2. This also reduces the cost of the next mission.  

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Macron faces parliamentary deadlock in France after efforts to pass legislation on a bill by bill basis and use of an unpopular mechanism to ram laws through without a vote. This led to months of street protests for a law that increased the age for pensions. These moves by Macron have now left the government with no way ahead except by talking to opposition leaders. The US is making major policy changes under Biden and expanding its economy, Germany under the Schultz government is following similar policies, Britain looks to major changes under Keir Starmer's Labor party, in France the rest of Macron's term appears headed for a period when no constructive changes can take place in the economic and social condition of France.

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The huge temperature difference of hundreds of degrees C between the lunar surface and its depths, the presence of sulphur on the surface, and pictures of Pragyaan rover moving around craters, are shown here in a BBC report on India's moon mission Chandrayaan 3.

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A country with vast boreal forests, rivers and lakes spread out over the upper half othe North American continent, has seen some of the worst effects of climate change in recent years. An area the size of Georgia 38 million acres has burned in wild fires in Canada. Omimitsu Onishi of NYT looks at the Covitchan River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and how it has changed in this report. Plentiful salmon to the point that you would have to walk over them are a thing of the past.

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These days even the Lincoln Center is changing. Diversity can represent excellence, says Darren Walker of Ford Foundation, of the changes under Henry Timms breaking the walls that separate Lincoln Center from the neighborhood. The neighborhood under what was San Juan Hill changed with the building of the Lincoln Center, and Lincoln Center stayed aloof from the community around it. Timms was born in Exeter, England and went to school at Durham University, in 2008 he headed programming at the 92nd street Y. David Geffen Hall built to house the New York Philharmonic opened last year in $500 million renovation. Timms is changing the way New Yorkers approach their cultural institution and making it one for the community.

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Since the ouster of Mr. Licht amid falling ratings at CNN and protests by staff, the network is run by Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley, Eric Shearling and David Leavy reporting to Mr. Zaslav head of Warner Brothers Discovery. CNN will now be run by Mark Thompson who ran BBC and New York Times. It comes at an important time for the country as 2024 is an election year. Mr. Licht was a late show producer, Mr. Thompson brings rare and extensive experience running large organizations that cover news for many decades since joining BBC in 1979. He joined as a BBC trainee and over 24 years by 2004 he headed the  vast BBC British network. 

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NYT's Jeanna Smialek says there are lower inflation expectations with the Fed in the fight. This will help the economy in 2024, and help president Biden in managing the economy. Slower rent increases, and declining demand for housing, cars, with higher interest rates sharply increasing mortgage payments and car leases, is helping to slow inflation. Lower inflation expectations help because buyers are less willing to pay higher prices and falling demand acts to slow price increases by retailers and manufacturers. The Fed's fight against inflation without letting up, and China's slowing economy have reduced demand to where inflation expectations are set to be much lower by 2024.

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At 9.36 pm on Wednesday Aug 30 in the night sky one will see a second full moon. This will be larger than the usual moon. This month there are two full moons Aug 1 and Aug 30. This happens as the lunar cycle is of 30 days just shorter than a month.It is called a blue moon because it happens every 3-4 years. The expression once in a blue moon comes from this, but the moon is not blue, just larger and brighter than usual.

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Mark Thompson who led the BBC for 8 years till 2012, then led the NYT till 2020 reviving its news business, is now the new head of news channel CNN. CNN faces declining audience and management turnover. 

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Spain's soccer icon Iniesta's support for Jennifer Hermoso and the rest of the Spanish women's soccer team speaks for everyone. Here Laia Herrero tells the story of Hermoso's grandfather a goalkeeper for Athletico and her father who encouraged her to play soccer at the park in her Madrid neighborhood. She started playing for Athletico when she was 14 years and has also played for Barcelona. She has a record as Spain's most prolific goal scorer.  

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Only two and a half hours from Anchorage is the water at Kenai Fjords National Park. Another road trip from Anchorage is a 240 mile drive into Denali National Park. Emily Pennington takes one on a road trip to Denali. The first 15 miles of Denali Park Road are accessible by private vehicle. Then there are iconic green buses into park with many stop points. September has long days with sunshine till 8.30 pm and the trails are right for hikers.

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Medicare price negotiations begin under the Inflation Reduction Act. Of this legislation president Biden says- "There is no reason Americans should be forced to pay more than any developed nation for life saving prescription drugs just to pad Big Pharma's pockets." Incomprehensibly this law that cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars was passed by the younger Bush in 2003 banning Medicare from negotiating prices of drugs. It thrust one of the biggest boondoggles in postwar history on the American people under an equally incomprehensible name "Act for Drug Improvement and Modernization," with the idea that it was a form of government price controls. 

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President Biden removes one of the costly boondoggles thrust on the American people with Bush's Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which was anything but an improvement. .The following are the 10 pharmaceutical drugs that will be negotiated for Medicare prices under the Inflation Reduction Act- Eliquis and Jardiance (strokes), Jardiance, Xarelto (diabetes), Entresto (heart failure), Enbrel (arthritis). Laws passed under Republican president younger Bush incomprehensibly took away the right of the government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies in one of the most egregious and costly decisions in postwar history by the government of the United States. It has only aggravated the problems and cots of healthcare for the American people. President Biden reversed this with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act during the pandemic. Strangely it is part of the real culture war in America in which about 80% of both Republicans and Democrats support this but the media allowed the Bush legislation to be passed without saying it made no sense to say this negotiation was a form of price controls by the US government. This is how low the US policymaking had fallen by 2003 with legislators and press unable to make a simple point. Bush's legislation was called even more incomprehensibly the Medicare Drug Improvement and Modernization Act, when it was one of the biggest financial disasters for the American people costing them hundreds of billions of dollars in their savings and incomes to pay inflated prices of pharmaceuticals that people in Europe and Asia (India and China) were not paying.  ...

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According to this report taking fewer airplane flights and eating less dairy or meat, driving less, using less space in homes, can have a large impact on each person's carbon footprint to prevent climate change. Upgrading insulation is also a cheap way to take action against climate change.

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Increased use of remote work is leading to vacant office space with occupancy of office towers falling. This has led to the coining of the term "urban doom loop" as more and more office space goes vacant and real estate companies default on mortgages or lose money. Less use of office space hits retail stores in the same area leading to losses in the state including a hit to tax revenues. This is expected to have an outsize effect on midsize cities such as Charlotte or Indianapolis. This is being watched closely so that it does not affect the Us economy and growth.

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DW.com gives this detailed account of the developments in the Luis Rubiales case in Spanish football, including comments made by Spain's leading footballer Andres Iniesta on the need to restore the integrity of Spanish football and the women's game. Iniesta's statement begins with the words, "as a father of three daughters and a husband..," that he was saddened by the events that have affected the wonderful history created by Spanish footballers during the World Cup and the image of Spain and Spanish football in the world. Spain and Portugal, Morocco are a contender for the World Cup hosting in 2030 which could depend on how this case is resolved, says DW.com.

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Over 100 women scientists are part of the Chandrayan moon missions of Indian space agency ISRO. Many are leader of project teams and head key parts of the scientific efforts of ISRO. Prime minister Modi says the moon mission shows the strength of women or 'nari shakti' and the potential of the younger generation of women for careers in science and technology. About 25% of the 16,000 employees of ISRO space agency are women, and Modi says "they will inspire women for generations to come." Women make up 43% of graduates in STEM scientific fields, yet when it comes to being part of scientific institutes or universities this drops to 14%, an imbalance that prime minister Modi and ISRO women seek to address. DW.com looks at the work of women in the moon, mars and solar missions including Ritu Karidhal, Nidhi Porwal, Reema Ghosh, Kalpana Kalahasti. Kalahasti is deputy project director and has overseen the satellite imaging that will be done from Chandrayan 3. Reema Ghosh worked on the "Pragyan" rover that is now exploring the moon's surface. ...