Numbers Lie Even More Than Usual In Greenland
Statistics about Greenland both distort and reveal. The average income is $33,000 — that's definitely "high." Yet in some ways it resembles a developing world country.
Statistics about Greenland both distort and reveal. The average income is $33,000 — that's definitely "high." Yet in some ways it resembles a developing world country.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina - NASCAR has fined Tony Stewart $35,000 for criticizing the series about a potential safety hazard during races.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Today San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Women’s Foundation of California and San Francisco City Administrator Naomi Kelly announced the Bay Area Women’s Summit, a landmark event that will bring together the most dynamic leaders in government, business, philanthropy, education and others, on Tuesday, June 21st at Moscone Center North in San Francisco. The Summit will serve as a significant platform to engage influential leaders in the... Читать дальше...
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ST. LOUIS, April 21 (UPI) -- Having trouble figuring out where to go may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, based on a study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.
In a nearby post Jeff Snider makes a clean kill of the sell side hockey stick. Just 22 months ago (June 2014), Wall Street projected GAAP earnings of $144.60 per share for the S&P 500 in 2015.
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According to Mike Rothman crude is set to go higher despite concerns of a crude glut.
The Pentagon has released a video showing a B-52 bomber eliminating ISIS targets in Iraq. While the US and its coalition partners have waged war on ISIS from the air and the ground, only recently did the legendary B-52 bomber join the fight Business Insider reports: The first video released from the Combined Joint Task Force’s Operation Inherent Resolve shows a departure from the B-52’s carpet bombing strategy of old. Instead, this video shows precision munitions hammering individual targets. The... Читать дальше...
Shares of Alphabet were plunging 7 percent in after-hours trading after the parent company of Google posted quarterly financial results on Thursday...
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - Forward Ray Kasongo is leaving the Tennessee men's basketball team after one season.
The pop singer Prince died on Thursday, at the age of fifty-seven, but his legacy will remain with us for a long, long time. Our cover for next week’s issue, Bob Staake’s “Purple Rain,” is a tribute to the great performer; click here to read remembrances from our writers.
Starbucks Corp. shares plunged in after-hours trading Thursday after the world’s largest coffee chain missed revenue and store sales growth estimates for the first three months of the year. The company reported lower-than-expected global same-store sales growth compared with the same period last year, with flat year-over-year growth in the Americas, its strongest geographic region. The news sent the company’s stock down more than 5 percent in after-hours trading in New York on Thursday, to $57.59.
– Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, has promised that the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria would offer technical assistance to help the country end the lingering fuel scarcity – She revealed that U.S. would discuss with Nigeria the diversification of its economy – The ambassador met with some civil society organisations and discussed with them the deteriorating condition […]
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LOS ANGELES — Fusion Media will be a Mouse trap no more. The Walt Disney Co. has officially split from Fusion Media, the digital news venture it launched with Spanish-language media behemoth Univision. The venture was targeted at millennials, but hasn’t found a sweet spot or many viewers yet.
The Everton defender is sorry for his tackle in Wednesday's Premier League action, but insists he wasn't trying to hurt the Liverpool man.
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Google parent company Alphabet is taking a hard look at the various projects underway at the company, hinting that the company could be scaling back, or even potentially cutting, certain initiatives.
During the company's Q1 earnings call on Thursday, Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat mentioned twice the company was taking steps to "rationalize" the products and projects that the company develops.
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Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martin Cuaron, US Navy
A US Navy officer relieved of commanding a Persian Gulf patrol ship allegedly failed to maintain equipment to the point of exposing "his crew to unnecessary risk," interfered with an inquiry into his actions and once slept drunk on a bench at a Dubai port, according to a naval investigation.
The accusations against Lt. Cmdr. Jeremiah Daley saw the Navy on March 12 remove him from the USS Typhoon, a Manama, Bahrain-based... Читать дальше...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday that he will ask Mexico's Congress to raise the limit on decriminalized marijuana for personal use to 28 grams, or about one ounce.
Sales in current quarter expected to be below analysts’ expectations
PC slump continues to weigh on results despite emergence of cloud computing
Tax forms reveal that the controversial billionaire Koch brothers are throwing money into an effort to stop conservation efforts in the Grand Canyon.
Prince’s voice soared on stage — but he was also a humanitarian who once quietly donated money to the family of Trayvon Martin.
A new Shakespearian theatre is set to be built in Knowsley at a cost of £26m after planning permission is granted.