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Chris Evans explains why he initially turned down Captain America, then changed his mind

BusinessInsider.com 

"Jimmy Kimmel Live"/ABC

While landing a superhero role has made Chris Evans very famous, the actor said he turned down the role "a few times" on Monday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

"I was scared," he told host Jimmy Kimmel about initially turning down the nine-picture contract.

"In doing movies one at a time, if all of a sudden you decide you don't want to do it anymore, you're afforded the opportunity to take a step back and recalibrate," Evans said. "When you have a giant contract... Читать дальше...

An Open Letter to My Friend Returning From Maternity Leave

The Huffington Post 

Dear Friend,

Tomorrow will be one of the hardest days for you. The last three months have completely changed your life. In that time you have brought life into the world and navigated the rocky terrain of caring for a tiny person who is completely dependent on you.

If I had to guess, I would say that you've experienced a few new things while on your maternity leave. The first moment you laid eyes on your newborn, and it felt like you couldn't possibly contain your heart from bursting out of its chest. Читать дальше...

Study: Southern California rents to see steep rise by 2018

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A university study sees a steep rise in Southern California apartment rents as population and job growth outpaces construction. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1Vly2O4 ) says the USC Casden Multifamily Forecast found the average rent in Los Angeles County is expected to reach $1,416 a month in 2018, an 8.3 percent increase from last year.

Police warn rich Kenyan women to be careful of Nigerian men

NAIJ.COM (Nigeria News) 

Police in Kenya have warned rich Kenyan women on the need to be weary of falling in love with Nigerian men. This warning is coming due to the increasing illegal influx of Nigerian immigrants into the country. According to the Star, government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said most of the Nigerian men enter Kenya as tourists […]

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Iran Needs S-300 Systems While Moscow Needs 'Reliable Ally' to Fight Daesh

RIA Novosti  

Russian-made S-300 air defense systems would play an important role in maintaining Iran’s national security. At the same time, Moscow is interested in supporting Tehran on a number of issues, including the fight against Daesh in Syria, the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh, and deterring Turkey.

With Health Insurance, the Deck Is Always Stacked

The Huffington Post 

We buy health insurance for the promise that the insurance companies will protect us from enormous medical bills. But what happens when they don't keep that promise? We all know that medical costs are a nightmare for the uninsured. Hospitals and other health care providers mark up medical bills to many times what they expect to get paid, then give insurance companies enormous "discounts" on those bills.

Of course if you're uninsured, you don't get the insurance "discount." But what many... Читать дальше...

The rise of Peter Thiel, the iconic Silicon Valley VC who wants to cheat death

BusinessInsider.com 

Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

Peter Thiel is today known as one of the most successful and colorful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

He came to fame and fortune by co-founding PayPal and then as an early investor in Facebook and is now is trying to stop aging and death, find technologies that would let people live forever, and encouraging smart young people to skip college and start companies instead. (He's a famously outspoken libertarian.)

If you take every classic tale... Читать дальше...

SANRAL criticises OUTA claim that it overpaid for Gauteng freeways

Times LIVE 

Roads agency SANRAL has slammed as a deliberate attempt to denigrate the agency’s reputation a report by Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) stating that the agency overpaid by more than R11bn for the R17.9bn Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP).





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