In short, the French not only strike and protest more often, but when they do, they ensure that the protests and strikes make headlines. This all begs the question: why exactly do the French strike?
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America has no royal family, but weddings between high-profile characters drum up similarly ravenous interest.
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For now, our advances in artificial intelligence have contributed to developments in a wide variety of fields. Among the most interesting fields revolutionized by these technologies is job recruiting.
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With renewable energy sources comprising only a tenth of America’s energy consumption, climate change is heavily affecting America through more frequent natural disasters, falling crop yields, and the spread of disease-carrying bugs.
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On some occasions though, the clothes I bring home never see the light of day. A mental image of my burgeoning pile-of-clothing-that-I-never-wear resurfaced when I read about transaction utility in Richard Thaler’s Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics.
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indeed, even as the movie industry has declined in the past few years, the trailer industry has reached its heyday.
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In the world’s second largest economy, real estate plays a substantial role for both commercial and private investment: due to lack of diversity in investment strategy, the private real estate market in China has become a favored path for private owners trying to maintain and invest their assets.
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In 2018, brands began launching cruelty-free makeup, products in sustainable packaging, and skincare lines exclusively for men. One prominent trend was the increasing emphasis on inclusivity.
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Slowly, however, a trend has emerged wherein top recruits—the kinds we associate with programs like Alabama football or University of Virginia basketball—are choosing Ivy League programs over their Power 5 alternatives once again.
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When, on Wednesday, December 19th, President Trump ordered the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Syria, he probably expected a more positive response. Instead, Defense Secretary James Mattis added his name to the long list of those to exit the White House, effective February.
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On December 16th, a GoFundMe campaign was started by a Trump supporter to fund the building of the border wall.
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Upon its early release in April 2017, PUBG had one of the most improbable routes to stardom for an independently produced game in the 21st century.
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“Made in China” has an earlier history than high-tech products or cheap consumer goods, though. The term was first popularly used during Japanese occupation during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the early 1940s.
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Every few years, a sports team in one of the United States’ ‘big four’ sporting leagues—the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League— either moved from one locale to another or was created anew.
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Microsoft has always been a giant in the tech world, but in the past month, it’s shown exactly why it deserves the distinction of being one of the greatest tech firms of all time.
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Yang indicates that capitalism as a system has worked well for our nation, but it is currently heading down the wrong path…The alternative, Yang relates, is to focus our economy to “maximize human welfare.”
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Over 1,400 of Google’s 88,000 employees have recently revealed concerns over Project Dragonfly, the company’s secret plan to engineer a censored search platform in China.
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It appears that Qatar’s reasoning for leaving [OPEC] does not come at a detriment to its economic incentives, as Qatar exports around million barrels of oil daily which ranks only 17th in the world.
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One US industry is seeking to work around and even combat these challenges to agriculture and aquaculture: seaweed.
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Having visited Theo’s flagship store and their chocolate factory over fall break, I can say that the company is, physically and metaphorically, in the heart of the community.
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