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Farmers Fret Over Trump’s Trade Tactics
The increasing trade tensions between the United States and China has rattled farmers in the American heartland, the place where many of the products on which China seeks to impose a tariff are produced. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports,…
Farmers Fret Over Trump’s Trade Tactics
Since 1980 when he began farming in Illinois, Brent Scholl's mornings have consisted of a similar routine ... waking early to head out to one of several buildings to check in on hundreds of his pigs. “Every eight weeks, we get 1,100 pigs…
If bitcoin mania spreads like a disease, Barclays thinks the fever has broken
What is bitcoin worth? This was the question on many minds as the cryptocurrency’s price soared last year, and has remained a puzzler as Lamborghini-coveting investors have watched the rally run out of gas in recent months. Researchers from…
‘Our way or the highway’ warranty scams shot down by US watchdog: It’s OK to use…
Warns six major companies, refuses to name names America's Federal Trade Commission has told "six major companies" to cut it out when it comes to trying to force consumers to only use their replacement parts for repairs.… Go to Source…
‘Housemate from hell’ catches 24 new charges after alleged nightmare cyberstalking spree…
Masshole 'targeted women, families, friends with abuse' A US bloke accused of cyberstalking and harassing his former housemates has been hit with two dozen more criminal charges.… Go to Source Author: Shaun Nichols
Gemini: Vulture gives PDA some Linux lovin’
If it looks like, walks like and quacks like a Psion, is it actually a penguin? Review Planet Computing’s Gemini is a middling Android phone integrated with a Psion Series 5-style keyboard and clamshell case. Since our exclusive hands-on…
Yale’s beloved happiness class is now on the internet for free
Happiness, they say, is infectious. Perhaps that is why the most popular course ever to be taught at Yale University—this semester enrolling 1,200 students, or a quarter of the undergraduate student body—is one titled “Psychology and the…
We’re 50% more likely to die in the 20 years following a personal financial disaster
Severe and unexpected financial loss is hard at any stage of life. When it occurs in middle age or later, however, the blow can be devastating. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers new insight into just how…