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A brief guide to affording eldercare for aging parents

As an adult, you’ve gotten used to certain things about your parents that your childhood never prepared you for—like your mom’s affinity for pickleball or your dad’s sudden fascination with ancient...

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How to keep your jack-o’-lantern from rotting before Halloween

For many Americans, pumpkins mean that fall is here. In anticipation, coffee shops, restaurants, and grocery stores start their pumpkin flavor promotions in late August, a month before autumn...

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How business schools can show they’re making a positive societal impact

Back in 1970, the economist Milton Friedman famously argued that businesses have a single responsibility: to increase profit. For decades, the so-called “Friedman doctrine” amounted to dogma in...

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How rockets could travel to Mars in half the time with nuclear thermal...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This...

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Why seeing is not always believing, and what to do about it

What if you couldn’t see others as they really are?  What if you couldn’t see yourself as you really are?  And what if you had no way of knowing that what you thought you saw was not at all what there...

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4 questions to avoid asking in a first-round interview

You made it to the end of the first interview. Chances are, the hiring manager will ask this final question: Do you have any questions for me? You probably know you should ask something—having a...

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‘Oyster sommelier’ is now a job, thanks to this new oyster-education program

When Jeremy Benson approaches a restaurant table as a sommelier, he’s prepared to talk about what you might expect: flavor profile, geography, terroir, and mouthfeel. Sometimes, he takes down a map...

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Inside the business of a YouTube child star

Ryan Kaji was just three years old when his YouTube channel, Ryan’s World, took off. Initially launched by his parents in 2015 as a way to keep friends and family in Japan updated on Ryan as he grew...

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How to scam-proof your life, according to ‘Scam Goddess’ Laci Mosley

What do Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and a British baker known as The Bread Bamboozler have in common? They’re all artists to Scam Goddess author Laci Mosley, the actor and comedian who admires the...

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How to (finally) end miscommunication at work

As a writer and editor and manager, my job involves words. One of the most important things I need to get right is getting a message across clearly. And yet still, like all humans, every day has...

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How Helene conspiracy theories on social media are harming disaster relief...

In the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Helene in the United States this week, a new storm emerged on social media — false rumors about how disaster funds have been used, and even claims that...

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Dental scams are all over social media. Here’s how to protect yourself

If you have stained or chipped teeth, you might be considering veneers, customized teeth coverings that can restore a photogenic smile without more extensive dental work.But dentists warn that these...

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How anti-transgender state laws have impacted rates of attempted suicide...

In 2023, the number of anti-transgender state laws increased by 300% compared to 2022. These laws are having a devastating impact. A recent study by the Trevor Project, published in Nature Human...

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How Black and Latina leadership is transforming how unions work

Women make up roughly half of U.S. labor union membership, but representation in top level union leadership positions has lagged, even in female-dominated industries and particularly for women of...

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Philadelphia’s Chinatown is being targeted for this major development, faces...

Vivian Chang works on a narrow Philadelphia street that would have been consumed by a Phillies stadium had Chinatown activists not rallied to defeat the plan in the early 2000s. Instead of 40,000...

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Court reviews civil rights case alleging environmental racism against Black...

A federal appellate court is set to hear oral arguments Monday in a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in...

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‘A whole lot of women out here are not aspiring to be humble’: Kamala Harris...

On Sunday, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris appeared on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast to discuss reproductive rights, address criticisms from Republicans Donald Trump and JD Vance,...

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Affordable housing units across states are about to disappear as LIHTC...

For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter...

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Why this top energy strategist is optimistic about climate change

When it comes to energy, Jarand Rystad is the numbers guy. The former McKinsey & Company partner founded Oslo-based Rystad Energy, an independent research and energy intelligence company that...

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BP drops goal to reduce oil and gas output

BP has abandoned a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray Auchincloss scales back the firm’s energy transition strategy to regain investor confidence, three sources with knowledge of...

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