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CVS is making an unprecedented move to hook millennial moms

BusinessInsider.com 

CVS

On Tuesday, CVS announced the launch of CVS Express, a mobile ordering and pickup program, in partnership with tech startup Curbside.

With CVS Express, customers can pick up products ordered using the CVS App from outside the stores about an hour after placing their orders. Thanks to Curbside’s arrival detection technology, customers never even have to leave their cars.

"We’re all on mobile phones all the time," Brian Tilzer, CVS Health’s chief digital officer, told Business Insider. Читать дальше...

Zoe Kravitz & Zoey Deutch Premiere 'Vincent N Roxxy' at Tribeca 2016

«Just Jared» 

Zoe Kravitz looks gorgeous in a simple black dress at the premiere of her film Vincent N Roxxy at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival held at the Chelsea Bow Tie Cinemas on Monday (April 18) in New York City. The 27-year-old actress was joined at the event by her co-star and Just Jared Spotlight star [...]



MTA warned ending MetroCards by 2018 too optimistic

«New York Daily News» 

The MTA wants riders to start tapping their way into subway stations and buses in the summer of 2018, though an engineer told the agency on Monday to expect the project to be delayed.

A Nationalist Foreign Policy?

The National Interest 

Richard Burt

Security, United States

Trump and Cruz are bearers of a harder-edged, more nationalistic conception of foreign policy, focused more on securing American interests than on promoting American values.

Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of the National Interest, spoke with Richard Burt in late March in Washington, DC. Burt is chairman of the National Interest’s Advisory Council and a former assistant secretary of European and Canadian affairs and U.S. ambassador to Germany. Читать дальше...

John Oliver calls attention to lead poisoning with help from 'Sesame Street'

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Sometimes corporate synergy can be a force for good. 

On Sunday's "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver teamed up with "Sesame Street" stars and HBO stablemates Elmo, Rosita and Oscar to raise awareness about lead poisoning.

The issue has been in the news of late, largely due to the water crisis in...

Prep baseball ratings, 4/18

JournalStar.com 

A look at Ryly Jane Hambleton's prep baseball ratings for the week of April 18.

STD testing clinic set for Thursday

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

The Essential Health Clinic and AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin in La Crosse will offer free tests for STD’s and HIV from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Essential at 1201 Caledonia St. in La Crosse.

Mitel, Polycom merge to shore up against comms disruption

BusinessInsider.com 

Flickr/Mike McCune

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There has been a wave of consolidation among companies that sell communications services as they shore up against smaller internet-based businesses such as Slack, Facebook, Skype, and Yammer, TechCrunch reports.

In the latest merger, Mitel, a global provider of enterprise and mobile communications, bought Polycom, which develops video... Читать дальше...

Senator Sanders Was Wrong To Claim Clinton Is Unqualified

The Huffington Post 

In 1936, Gallup polled people, asking "Would you vote for a woman for President, if she were qualified in every other respect?" This question, and other examples of surveys targeting women in politics, is documented by Vicky Randall in her book Women and Politics: An International Perspective. Unfortunately, the latest example of such behavior came 80 years later from an unlikely source: Senator Bernie Sanders.

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China extending anti-graft measures to officials' families

TheRepublic.com 

BEIJING - Seeking to further reduce opportunities for corruption, China will include additional cities and regions in a pilot program begun in the financial hub of Shanghai that restricts the business dealings of officials' spouses and children, the government said Tuesday.

Blood-testing startup Theranos facing more federal investigations

CNN Newsource 

The investigations are piling up for blood-testing startup Theranos.The company said Monday that it’s under scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.Those probes come on top of an ongoing inspection by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).Theranos has positioned itself as a provider of cheaper, more efficient alternatives to traditional medical tests. It claimed it could process ...





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