The decades-old air courier service meets the sharing economy.
Name: Airmule-Express Shipping
What it does: Someone who wants to ship a legal item can hire a traveler with extra space in his or her bags to carry it to the desired destination for an agreed-upon fee. Correspondence, arrangements...
Cheryl Hammer is a caterer, not a political party activist, but she lingered at a Ted Cruz campaign stop in this movie-set-perfect small town to savor the moment in history. "To actually have someone who's running for president come by is huge," said the 30-year resident, who's leaning toward Cruz...
A CSX freight train derailed near a Metro stop in Washington, D.C., on Sunday morning, sending about 10 cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material from one of them, emergency officials and ...
The setup for “Houdini & Doyle,” the new drama premiering at 8 p.m. Monday on Fox, is awfully familiar to ABC’s “Castle.”
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E-cigs are helping people more than hurting them.
At least that's the conclusion of a new report released Thursday by the Royal College of Physicians, the medical organization that sets standards for UK doctors.
Their finding runs counter to what the vast majority of American policy makers have been saying for years, which is that there simply isn't have enough evidence to say for sure if the benefits of e-cigarettes outweigh their potential harms. Читать дальше...
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How do you keep your confidence up when things really aren't going your way?
Stanford professor Maggie Neale, who teaches a high-stakes negotiation course, says people with high aspirations generally achieve more than those who don't.
The downside is, they feel worse than the folks who had no aspirations to begin with.
The old saying "if you shoot for the moon, you land among the stars" doesn't quite cover the agony of all those failed moonshots, does it? Читать дальше...
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The wealthiest private colleges in America eclipse many corporate giants as financial powerhouses. The endowment for Yale University, for instance, is worth nearly twice as much Macy's or MGM Resorts. Harvard University — the richest college in the country and $13 billion wealthier than Yale — could buy Prudential, General Mills, or Nokia with its $36 billion endowment.
Schools like Yale and Harvard use their endowments to support their... Читать дальше...
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The current opioid epidemic has plagued the entire US. But it has hit one state harder than the rest — West Virginia.
West Virginia had the highest drug-overdose death rate in the US in 2014, according to a recent CDC report.
The state also has one of the highest prescription rates of opioids in the US, trailing only Alabama and Tennessee. And it ranks in the top 10 for the highest rate of prescriptions given out for high-dose opioids and extended-release opioids ... Читать дальше...
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The fast-food budget wars have heated up recently.
While Burger King, Wendy's, and McDonald's have all introduced thrifty value menus and bundle deals, breakfast has more or less escaped the value wars.
But Taco Bell's new $1 breakfast menu, combining existing breakfast options with several new items, is a shot across the bow.
Clearly, $1 breakfast items can make anyone's wallet happy, but is the food worth it?
We decided to try all the chewable... Читать дальше...
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European counterterrorism officials say American laws and corporate policies are hampering their efforts to prevent the next attack, because legal procedures for getting international evidence from U.S.-based social-media firms are dangerously outdated.
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The South African Communist Party has accused the Guptas of being parasites‚ claiming that their “smash-and-grab‚ hit-and-run greed” had become so reckless that the banks dealing with them are exposing themselves to international sanctions and even losing their licences.
Leicester missed its first chance to clinch the Premier League title, drawing 1-1 at Manchester United on Sunday to move within two points of the most unlikely championship victory in English soccer.
The Duchess of Cambridge's style is nothing short of iconic. Now, it has an iconic magazine cover to match. For the first time ever, she'll be the cover star of Vogue UK.
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STUTTGART: Delegates from Germany's anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday backed an election manifesto that says Islam is not compatible with the country's constitution and calls for a ban on minarets and the burqa. The AfD, set up just three years ago, has been buoyed by Europe's migrant crisis, which saw the arrival of more than one million, mostly Muslim, migrants in Germany last year. The party has no lawmakers in the federal...
If they carry on as they are, they will risk repelling even more voters than they have already managed to lose.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Employees at the Saudi Binladin Group, a construction giant, have set fire to more than seven company buses in the latest protest by disgruntled staff over not being paid salaries for months and a large round of reported layoffs.
Elephants will perform for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closes its own chapter on a controversial practice that has entertained audiences since circuses began in America two centuries ago. Six Asian elephants will deliver their final performances in Providence, Rhode Island, and ...
Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal believes his call for all his anti-doping tests throughout his career to be released to the public is the only way to end the scourge of doping accusations in tennis.
The epicenter of Syria's brutal civil war shifted decisively last week to the country's largest city, Aleppo, which remains divided between regime loyalists in the west and rebel forces in the east.
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Abu Sayyaf militants have freed 10 Indonesian crewmen who were seized at sea in March in the first of three attacks on tugboats that have sparked a regional maritime security alarm, officials said Sunday. The Indonesians appeared to be in good health when ...