The U.S. Department of Agriculture is set to permanently increase the value of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits by 25% above pre-pandemic levels in October 2021. It’s the biggest change since 1979 to this anti-hunger…
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David Olufemi Olaleye, who passed away in July, made an impact on many lives. He was an excellent teacher and mentor – like a father to many. A defender of the oppressed and a forthright…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A gas pump is seen hanging from the ceiling at a petrol station in Seoul June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak 2/2 By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) -Oil dropped to $66…
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Ningbo-Zhousan may not exactly be a household name, but find something in your house made in China and it’s quite likely it was delivered from there. Ningbo-Zhousan, which overlooks the East China Sea some 200km…
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Dr Emmett Brown, Dr Victor Frankenstein and Dr Henry Jekyll are just three of the “crazy” scientists who populate fiction. Their methods were controversial and revolutionary – and I have always been especially drawn to…
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Women are drastically underrepresented in economics. Today in the US, women account for only one-third of economics majors, one-third of first-year PhD in economics students and one-third of newly minted PhDs (Lundberg and Stearns 2019). As in…
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© Reuters. Gold Holds Steady as Fed Sees Taper Likely Starting This Year (Bloomberg) — held steady after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July meeting showed most officials agreed they could start reducing the pace…
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The current COVID-19 wave in the U.S. is mostly affecting unvaccinated Americans, who represent more than 95% of current cases of hospitalization and death. Given the average cost of a COVID-19 hospitalization in 2020 ran…
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Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these…
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© Reuters. 3D printed oil barrels and percentage symbols are seen in front of dollar banknotes in this illustration taken May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) -Oil prices steadied on Wednesday…
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