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Puerto Rico Debt Crisis: Entrepreneurs Hope To Reinvent Island’s Economy Despite Looming Defaults

International Business Times 

Angiemille Latorre said she’s no stranger to crisis. When she launched her design consulting firm in Puerto Rico eight years ago, the global economy was plunging into the worst downturn in recent history. Now in Puerto Rico, another crisis is unfolding as the government struggles to pay its $72 billion of debt. Yet Latorre’s firm is booming as she adds new corporate clients across the island and beyond.

Couples Try To Guess What's Different About Their Partner And They Kinda Suck At It

BuzzFeed 

“Did they change your boobs on me?”

Have you ever been with somebody for so long that you think you know them inside and out? Well, these four couples were put to the test when asked to figure out what their partner changed about themselves.

BuzzFeed Yellow / Via youtube.com

In the beginning, each couple was extremely confident in the challenge. I mean, when you're with someone for a long period of time, you would think that you notice every little thing about them... Читать дальше...



No Pink, But Plenty of Red, In Hack-N-Slash 'Fairyland'

NPR (npr.org) 

Skottie Young's comic may horrify (or delight) the parents of princess-obsessed kids. It's the story of a not-so-little girl who's gone a little violent after 27 years trapped in a sparkly fairyland.

Obama roasts Trump, drops mic at WHCD

MSNBC 

For the final time, President Obama delivered laughs at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, lampooning himself, Congress, and his future as a lame duck.

Welfare bill breaking the bank

News Herald Sun 

MIDDLE-income families will pay up to $168 a week toward the cost of pensions and payments to families, the unemployed, retirees and veterans.

Turnbull to benefit from PNG ruling

News Herald Sun 

THE Manus Island ruling has focused voters’ attention on the Coalition’s greatest achievement, writes Rita Panahi.

French connection is one we can’t trust

News Herald Sun 

MALCOLM Turnbull’s $50 billion submarine deal takes a big strategic risk: it gives France unprecedented power to cripple us in war, writes Andrew Bolt.

Bail laws eased for Apex thugs

News Herald Sun 

EXCLUSIVE:APEX gang thugs and other ­juveniles freed on bail will no longer be charged if they breach the conditions of their release.

Aussies who won’t see tax relief

News Herald Sun 

THREE out of every four taxpayers are likely to miss out on relief in the Budget, amid speculation tax cuts will be offered to those on an $80,000 income.

Meet the woman who makes a living taste-testing chocolate for a $33 billion candy company

BusinessInsider.com 

Mars

Lisa Schroeder has a pretty sweet job.

For the past 16 years, Schroeder has worked for Mars Chocolate — a segment of the $33 billion Mars candy, petcare, and beverage company. Mars Chocolate produces 29 candy brands in total, including the billion-dollar global brands M&M's, Snickers, Dove, Milky Way, and Twix.

As a sensory technologist for the company, Schroeder's job is to taste-test chocolate. We recently spoke to her to find out how she landed this dream job, what she does all day... Читать дальше...

7 everyday items that wouldn’t exist as we know them without GMOs

BusinessInsider.com 

Thomson Reuters

Genetically modified organisms as we know them today have only been around for a few decades.

But in that time, we've taken to using them almost everywhere. Today, GMOs can be found in everything from the cotton in our T-shirts to the soda we sip at the movies.

Here are all the things that likely wouldn't look anything like they do today without some type of genetic modifications:

The corn we eat today has been modified with genes from living things that are not plants. Читать дальше...

Here's how drone usage is set to explode by 2020

BusinessInsider.com 

BI Intelligence

The fast-growing global drone industry has not sat back waiting for government policy to be hammered out before pouring investment and effort into opening up this all-new hardware and computing market. 

A growing ecosystem of drone software and hardware vendors is already catering to a long list of clients in agriculture, land management, energy, and construction. Many of the vendors are smallish private companies and startups — although large defense-focused companies... Читать дальше...

10 practical daily habits that will radically improve your life

BusinessInsider.com 

Flickr/Alan Light

Platitudes won't help you. I know, I've tried to implement them all. They're frustrating.  

Go for it! Live for today! Stay motivated! 

No kidding. 

I'm more interested in how we can radically improve our lives.  How can we stay truly motivated? How can we maintain hyper-efficiencies? How can we stay happy at work? How can we find true fulfillment by cultivating the most attractive aspects of our personalities? 

Here are 10 unexpected things you can do daily to radically improve your life... Читать дальше...

Warren Buffett Isn’t Worried About Donald Trump Winning The White House

International Business Times 

Warren Buffett said Saturday that his company, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is poised to do well no matter who wins the White House in November, and the billionaire investor defended the performance and tactics of the conglomerate's several large investments.





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