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On the Jersey Shore, Surf’s Up — Way Up
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In New Jersey’s beach towns, there are two sets of data that always seem to be rising:…
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Signal Jabs at Facebook and Navigates Growing Pains as Popularity Surges
Current and former staffers, who asked not to be identified either because of concerns of breaching confidentiality agreements or professional…
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What Happened When Evanston Became America’s First City to Promise Reparations
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — Lucious Sutton disconnected the water line, the gas line, and the sewer line for the home he’d…
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Carmakers Forced by Chip Crisis to Rethink Just-In-Time Ordering
(Bloomberg) — A century after automakers showed the world the value of assembly-line manufacturing, a shortage of semiconductors is teaching…
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Ivory Trade Loopholes Close as Nations Race to Crush Poachers
(Bloomberg) — Since the 2000’s, an elephant poaching epidemic has raged across Africa, with populations in some areas decimated and…
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Explore the New Seven Wonders of the World
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — The Seven Wonders of the World were the original bucket list—the places every Socratic disciple wanted to…
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Chrystia Freeland Is Trying to Supercharge Canada’s Growth
(Bloomberg Markets) — When Chrystia Freeland became Canada’s minister of finance in August, she had a mandate from Prime Minister…
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Florida Cruise Tests Rules; U.K. Opening in Doubt: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. said it had been cleared to resume cruises in the U.S. starting with a…
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Shortage of Asia-Made Jute Bags Threatens Nigerian Cocoa Exports
(Bloomberg) — Nigerian cocoa exporters, which rely on imported jute bags to package their beans, are facing a shortage after…
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Biden Takes Spending Pitch to Cleveland Amid GOP Negotiations
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden will try to bolster his case for his massive spending proposals on Thursday, arguing his…
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Bank CEOs Get Rebuke From Waters Over Overdraft Fees, Gaps in Lending
(Bloomberg) — House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters rebuked Wall Street CEOs for charging overdraft penalties during the pandemic…
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Fidelity in Talks to Back Relativity Space at $4.1 Billion Value
(Bloomberg) — Relativity Space Inc., a maker of 3D-printed rockets, is in talks to raise $600 million in a funding…
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Big Business Loses a Political Home Amid Its Feud With the GOP
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — Big business broke with President Donald Trump over tariffs and immigration and resented his Twitter attacks on…
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Cathie Wood’s Bad Spring Is Only a Blip When the Future Is So Magnificent
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — In the weirdest year of our lives, the rise of Cathie Wood is hardly the weirdest thing…
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A Message to Clean Tech Entrepreneurs: You Are Still Not Late
A week ago, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order urging his administration to create a comprehensive strategy on climate-related…
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What Climate Science Loses Without Enough Black Researchers
(Bloomberg) — Vernon Morris had often felt invisible in a profession defined by observation. As a climate scientist, he’s encountered racist…
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Gaza War Queers Israel’s Arab Outreach
(Bloomberg Opinion) — As Israel takes stock of the fourth Gaza war, its new allies among the Gulf Arab states are…
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Covid Origin Hunt Ordered by U.S.; EU Rips Astra: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden said he ordered the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble” its effort to determine the origin…
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Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Must File as Foreign Agent, U.S. Says
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Justice Department has told former casino magnate Steve Wynn to register as a foreign lobbyist for…
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Snowflake Declines on Forecast for Slowing Product Sales Growth
(Bloomberg) — Snowflake Inc., a software company that debuted with 2020’s biggest U.S. public offering, said product sales will grow…
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Bank CEOs Take Punches From Democrats, Warnings From Republicans
(Bloomberg) — Senator Elizabeth Warren called JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon “the star of the overdraft show.” Her Democratic…
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In One Minnesota Town, a Police Overhaul Is Working
“And before he was halfway through his proposal, I said yes,” Anderson said. ***** Although St. Cloud has never faced a…
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Icahn on Inflation, Investing, and What He Misses About NYC: Q&A
(Bloomberg) — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been a hard-charging shareholder activist for decades. At 83 years of age, he…
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Trump Acolytes Craft Parallel GOP Universe So Trumpism Lives On
(Bloomberg) — Allies of Donald Trump have built an ecosystem of think tanks, fund-raising outfits and professional development organizations designed…
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Green Finance Hires Political Stars to Protect $30 Trillion Boom
(Bloomberg) — Mark Carney to Brookfield Asset Management. Brexit architect Nigel Farage to DGB Group. A senior Obama aide to…
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Hong Kong Plan for Unused Shots; Moderna for Teens: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — Hong Kong may donate Covid-19 vaccines to countries more in need of them as local demand for Pfizer…
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Lukashenko’s Air Piracy Has No Western Precedent
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The double standards defense is the Kremlin’s go-to device whenever it’s accused of wrongdoing: “You Westerners have no…
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U.K. Slammed Over ‘Too Little, Very Late’ Boost to Isolation Aid
(Bloomberg) — A U.K. government plan to boost support for people who need to self-isolate in the pandemic does not…
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U.S. States Take Aim as House Wholesalers Flood Poor Areas
States and cities in the U.S. are cracking down on a niche in house-flipping known as wholesaling conducted by a…
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IBM Turnabout Adds Pressure to Keep Corporate Diversity Promises
(Bloomberg) — The year 2021 is shaping up to set records for diversity proposals at U.S. company annual meetings. Nine out…
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How Israel’s Arab Citizens Fare in an Unequal Society
(Bloomberg) — The most serious clashes in decades between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel erupted in several cities in…
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Malaysia Lies Trapped Between Covid and Deadlock
(Bloomberg Opinion) — A crisis of political legitimacy is hanging over Malaysia’s government just when it needs to make tough…
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U.S. Warns on Japan Travel; Seychelles Cases Drop: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. said Americans should avoid traveling to Japan, with the country under a state of emergency that…
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Biden to Direct $1 Billion for Severe Weather Preparedness
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden plans to announce on Monday a doubling of federal spending on preparations for severe weather…
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Why Belarus Targets Critics in the Streets and Skies
(Bloomberg) — Belarus has long pursued its president’s critics on the streets, and now it’s turned to the skies. For…
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Bank CEOs Headed to Congress Due for Grilling Over Drop in Loans
(Bloomberg) — Wall Street banks spent the pandemic making record profits. Now Democratic lawmakers want them to explain why they…
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End of Power Struggle May Unlock $3 Billion of Funds for Congo
(Bloomberg) — The World Bank may provide as much as $3 billion to the Democratic Republic of Congo as the…
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Planes Rerouted, Bonds Drop After Airport Arrest: Belarus Update
(Bloomberg) — Flights are being re-directed to avoid Belarusian airspace after the government in Minsk forced a Ryanair Holdings Plc…
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U.S. Outbreak Slows as Concern Rises Over Variant: Virus Update
The spread of coronavirus in the U.S. continues to slow, with the country ending its first week since June with…
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Kominers’s Conundrums: A Word Chemistry Lab Needs Organizing
I’ve been involved in the Fair for years — first as a student, and now as co-chair of the Mathematics category.Seeing…
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‘Foreign Agent’ Laws Are a Blueprint for Xenophobia
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Russian propaganda and spying, increasingly brazen in recent years, as well as China’s “soft power” efforts in…
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U.S. Cases Halve in a Month; Singapore Shuts Malls: Virus Update
Covid-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. continue to plunge, despite the slowed pace of vaccinations. The U.S. recorded almost…
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Britons Shun Boris Johnson’s Call to Take 2 Covid Tests Per Week
(Bloomberg) — The number of rapid Covid-19 tests being carried out in England fell to just over five million per…
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U.S. Cases Halve in a Month; Outbreak Hits Everest: Virus Update
Covid-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. continue to plunge, despite the slowed pace of vaccinations. The U.S. recorded almost…
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Solar Storms Are Back, Threatening Power Grids and Satellites
(Bloomberg) — A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun…
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Greta Thunberg aims to change how food is produced
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg talks to the media before meeting with EU environment ministers in Brussels, Belgium, March 5,…
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Solar Storms Are Back, Threatening Life as We Know It on Earth
(Bloomberg) — A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun…
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Recycling Isn’t Dead. It’s Booming.
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Recycling is “dead,” say the obituaries. And if it’s not dead it’s “broken,” “not working,” “in the bin,” “failing,” a “charade,” “a lie,” and…
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China Releases Photo of Rover Probing Near Mars Landing Site
(Bloomberg) — China released another photograph from its spacecraft that landed on Mars, showing the Zhurong rover cruising along the…
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Summers Says Crypto Has Chance of Becoming ‘Digital Gold’
(Bloomberg) — Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said cryptocurrencies could stay a feature of global markets as something akin…
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