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How a Side Hustle as a Tennis Announcer Lifted Chris Eubanks at Wimbledon

  
WSJ - 07.11.2023 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson
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His job covering tennis matches at Tennis Channel helped Chris Eubanks get a new perspective on the game from a safe distance. He did this as a way to find a channel for his energies after making it to the top 200 and stalling. He is now the top US player at Wimbledon playing in the quarterfinals after winning a five set match with Tsitsipas.

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Turkey Agrees to Allow Sweden to Join NATO

  
WSJ - 07.10.2023 Original article ›
Jared Malsin, Sune Engel Rasmussen, Yaroslav Trofimov, Daniel Michaels

Biden Takes On Nightmare Government Paperwork

  
WSJ - 07.10.2023 Original article ›
Andrew Restuccia

In China, the Era of Western Carmakers Is Over

  
WSJ - 07.10.2023 Original article ›
Yoko Kubota, Selina Cheng

Bayou Teche Is an Epicenter of America’s Lead Cable Problem

  
WSJ - 07.10.2023 Original article ›
John West, Peter Champelli, Juanje Gómez, Susan Pulliam, Shalini Ramachandran | Photographs, Video By Rory Doyle For The Wall Street Journal

How the Journal Investigated Hidden Lead Cables Circling the U.S.

  
WSJ - 07.09.2023 Original article ›
John West, Coulter Jones, Susan Pulliam, Shalini Ramachandran, Thomas Gryta

America Is Wrapped in Miles of Toxic Lead Cables

  
WSJ - 07.09.2023 Original article ›
Susan Pulliam, Shalini Ramachandran, John West, Coulter Jones, Thomas Gryta
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These lead cables are what is left of the old cables laid decades back by the Bell regional phone network. They are underwater, in the soil an d on poles overhead. As the lead erodes and disintegrates it contaminates the water and the soil. Unsafe levels of it are found in 44 of 130 underwater sample sites tested by independent labs for the WSJ. It has tainted spots such as popular fishing locations, in front of schools and in playgrounds. It was found in the Willamette River in Oregon, in the Mississippi river banks in Louisiana, in the Detroit River in Michigan and the Passaic river in New Jersey. 

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Want to Be More Fit? Take a Vacation From Your Workout

  
WSJ - 07.08.2023 Original article ›
Jen Murphy

A Late-Blooming American Springs to Life at Wimbledon

  
WSJ - 07.07.2023 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson
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Christopher Eubanks of the US wins over Britain's No. 1 Cameron Norrie at Wimbledon. After some doubts about a tennis career during a period when he did not make it to the top 100 Eubanks wins the Mallorca Open, and wins a place in the quarter finals at Wimbledon after a 5 set win over Stefanos Tsitsipas. He finds surprising help from the grass surface at Wimbledon that fits his game.

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America’s Green Skills Gap Raises Concerns About Energy Transition

  
WSJ - 07.06.2023 Original article ›
Dieter Holger

The Tour de France’s 140-Pound Heavyweights Wage a Fierce Fight in the Pyrenees

  
WSJ - 07.06.2023 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson

In Retirement, We Have Discovered We Each Need a Cave to Call Our Own

  
WSJ - 07.06.2023 Original article ›
Stephen Kreider Yoder, Karen Kreider Yoder
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A space of one's own in the home works great in retirement as this couple discovered.

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Cricket’s Version of the Hidden Ball Trick Sparks an English Summer Panic

  
WSJ - 07.05.2023 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson
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The controversial runout of batsman Bairstow in the Australia England Ashes cricket series. This game was played at the MCC Lord's cricket ground.

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WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Looks to Restrict China’s Access to Cloud Computing to Protect Advanced Technology

  
WSJ - 07.04.2023 Original article ›
Yuka Hayashi, John D. Mc Kinnon

Opinion | Why Biden Isn’t Getting the Credit He Deserves

  
NYTimes.com - 07.03.2023 Original article ›
David Brooks
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Biden's vision for America is genuine and it works, in resources put to the task and in manufacturing, in technologies, in infrastructure that rebuilds America, says Brooks in NYT.  Biden has to frame his own narrative, tell America's 21st century story, says David Brooks in the NYT. To do this he has to get out of the protective walls that have been built around him, and make himself the center of the nation's attention. Because the media is too fractured and the nation too fractured to grasp that it is possible after four failed administrations- Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump's.

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Opinion | Biden Is Taking Aim at Trump’s Biggest Strength

  
NYTimes.com - 07.03.2023 Original article ›
Ezra Klein
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Bidenomics and how it works for America- you don't have to have a college degree and two thirds of the workforce doesn't have one, you don't have to move and most people can't move to costly housing locations like California or New York. America can build here at home in chips, aviation and advanced technologies in scale and discovery that it has in its heritage. And you don't have to move when factories can go up in all parts of America, rural areas, small towns, and in neglected factory towns from a different era of the 50's and 60's. This is what Biden is doing with trillions of dollars in spending with the help of some Republicans sharing his vision for American Renewal. Not just talk- just substance, results. And cost of living- inflation cut in half from 2022 to 4%.

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Yellen to Visit China in Bid to Steady Economic Ties

  
NYTimes.com - 07.03.2023 Original article ›
Alan Rappeport, Keith Bradsher

Tai Chi Is a Workout for the Brain and Body

  
NYTimes.com - 07.03.2023 Original article ›
Cindy Kuzma

Canada Offers Lesson in the Economic Toll of Climate Change

  
NYTimes.com - 07.03.2023 Original article ›
Lydia De Pillis
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Wildfires that have burned 20 million acres in Canada in an area the size of Maine are affecting oil, lumber and tourism industries. Fires in Quebec have created a cloud of haze in cities as far away as New York and Detroit, and made its way across the Atlantic ocean to France for the first time. It used to be said that events in one part of the world affect us, now this is a reality and everyday life is affected.

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Opinion | For Most College Students, Affirmative Action Was Never Enough

  
NYTimes.com - 07.03.2023 Original article ›
Richard Arum, Mitchell L. Stevens, Quoctrung Bui
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Professors Arum of UC Davis and Steven of Stanford show in a color graph visual how selective race based admissions called affirmative action apply only to a small number of schools, only 6% of college students in the US go to schools that select 25% or less of their applicant pool. The rest including all state universities and many colleges in the UC system in California are not affected. Another development is that these selective schools are not that much better than the others that cost a fraction of the money. A smart decision today is to study in a state system at a fraction of the inflated cost of all schools that is an aberration in itself, and make the discipline and effort to get the most out of that education, and make an effort to learn outside of the classroom through spirit of inquiry.

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‘Poms’ great Ashes hypocrisy’: Australia reacts to second Test controversy

  
The Guardian - 07.03.2023 Original article ›
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The run out given on English batsman Bairstow as he stepped out of the crease while batting creates tension at Lord's cricket crowd Ashes Test on July 2, 2023. A huge effort by English captain Stokes with 154 runs still leaves England short of the 43 runs to match the Aussie batting effort. England's Ben Duckett 98 and 83 runs and Aussies Steve Smith 110 and 34 runs were batsmen who scored for their side. 

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Tour de France: stage three – live updates

  
The Guardian - 07.03.2023 Original article ›

How to Retire Better, From Retirees Who Learned the Hard Way

  
WSJ - 07.02.2023 Original article ›
Veronica Dagher, Anne Tergesen

No Job, No Marriage, No Kid: China’s Workers and the Curse of 35

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NYTimes.com - 07.01.2023 Original article ›
Li Yuan
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Li Yuan looks at the poor job prospects in China for young people over the age of 35 years whose work can be done by new university graduates at lower pay. Jobs in government are given before a person reaches 35 years. Employees laid off during the pandemic have difficulty finding work. This affects marraige prospects and starting a family, or buying a home. There is also hidden discrimination for job seekers over age 35. For women there are questions from employers about if and when they will have children.

Hidden discrimination takes place in the workplace in France where the protests against raising the pension age are fueled in addition to other reasons about its timing after the pandemic and inflation, by people over 40 years who cannot find jobs, with the burden falling harder on women. 

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Six Exercises to Get the Quad Strength of a Tennis Star

  
WSJ - 07.01.2023 Original article ›
Jen Murphy | Photographs By David Cabrera For The Wall Street Journal
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 A number of exercizes that strengthen the quad and the legs are shown here by tennis professionals who say this helps in playing tennis. These exercises which include a number of squats are a way to strengthen the legs and lower body including stability ball squat, medicine ball toss, and lateral band walk.

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