The Dreamliner Debacle Has Already Cost Boeing $600 Million
(Reuters) - U.S. regulators are close to approving a key document that could start the process of returning Boeing Co's grounded 787 Dreamliner to service within weeks, according to several people...
View ArticleThe Celebrity Voices Behind TV's Most Popular Cartoon Characters
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View ArticleIt's Now Legal To Take Home Your Roadkill And Eat It In Montana
This post originally appeared at Edible Geography.Roadkill cuisine has been making headlines this spring, after the Montana House of Representatives passed a bill (by 99 votes to 1) that allows the...
View ArticleWest, Texas Is Just The Latest In A Long Line Of Deadly Fertilizer Explosions
A huge explosion at a Fertiliser factory in West, Texas, has caused deaths, injuries and destruction to the town, near Waco. It's also drawn attention to the huge fertiliser industry. So, what is it,...
View ArticleWhy Should Taxpayers Have To Subsidize A Low-Income Career Path?
The cost of higher education has exploded while its value has increased. Your lifetime earnings could be 84% higher if you graduate from college.This leaves many young people debt-wracked.In America,...
View ArticleTeacher Says She Couldn't Have Fondled A Black Girl Because She's Racist
A teacher in Texas has invoked her own racism in a defense against charges that she fondled an African-American student in her first grade class at Northwest Preparatory Academy Charter School in...
View ArticleWhat Immigration Advocates Don't Like About The New Reform Bill
Immigration supporters are cautiously optimistic about the “Gang of 8” reform bill, but there’s still a long list of complaints they want to address before it gets to final passage.On Wednesday,...
View ArticleThis 31-Year-Old Advisor Wants To Change The Way Young People Invest
Blair Hodgson DuQuesnay disproves a well-circulated myth: that financial planning is the exclusive province of gray-headed advisors who cater to middle-aged and elderly clients with fat wallets.The...
View ArticleKorea's Biggest TV Network Won't Air Psy's 'Gentleman' Because He Kicks A...
Making someone fall off a treadmill is fine. But kicking a traffic cone? That might “disturb basic public order.” Or at least that’s why South Korea’s national, publicly funded TV network, Korean...
View Article6 Things On Which Americans Waste A Lot Of Money
I dislike wasting money, and I’m sure I’m not alone when I say this.Although wasting money might make most of us feel a bit queasy, Americans waste billions of dollars each year on frivolous purchases...
View ArticleSix Money Conversations Every Serious Couple Should Have
When my now husband and I first got engaged, I knew money would be an issue.Not because either one of us had a particularly large debt, or were “bad” with budgeting. On the contrary, it was more that I...
View ArticleWhy Some Things Go Viral And Others Don't
Want to know why things go viral? Why some products get more word of mouth? Let me tell you a secret. It’s not luck.Viral has been seen as marketing’s Holy Grail. From the Harlem Shake to the Rutgers...
View ArticleYes, There Is Such Thing As Having Too Many Savings Accounts
If you're having trouble saving money, it might be because you have too many savings accounts.That might sound counterintuitive, but it's the conclusion of a study conducted recently by researchers at...
View ArticleRacist 'Retail Redlining' Is Still A Big Problem In America
David Mekarski, the village administrator for the south Chicago suburb of Olympia Fields, told a startling story this week at the American Planning Association's annual conference about a debate he...
View ArticleHow The NRA Won The Gun Control Messaging Battle
Of all the senators who attempted Wednesday to rally support for the doomed Manchin-Toomey background check amendment, Connecticut's Democratic freshman representative, Chris Murphy, probably faced the...
View ArticleThe Senate's New Immigration Bill Is So Complex, Congress Needs More Time To...
The Senate’s pending immigration bill includes roughly 400 exemptions, exceptions, waivers, determinations and grants of discretion.The bill’s complexity is forcing opponents and supporters to comb...
View ArticleMan Narrowly Misses Boston Marathon Bomb, Then Narrowly Misses Texas...
Man who finished Boston Marathon seconds before bombing witnesses Texas explosion days later.People keep asking Joe Berti if he feels unlucky.A bomb exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon...
View ArticleAftermath Of A Bubble And What Rises From The Ashes
Bubbles are a funny thing. Participants don’t see them. Outsiders shake their heads – until they themselves get sucked in.Central banks support or create them, but deny their existence. Money piles in...
View Article22 Audition Tapes That Made These Celebrities Famous
It only takes one special role to launch a career on the A-list.Landing that role though, that's the hard part. If you want to be somebody in Hollywood, you have to nail your audition.These stars did...
View ArticleKOTOK: Gold Has Just One Of The Three Characteristics Of A Functional Currency
Gold made the headlines with a rapid plunge, some possible basing, and then another plunge. Let’s talk about gold for a minute.Central bankers prefer to have the public, the investor class, and the...
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