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Government Still Buying Lenovo Laptops Despite Foreign Ownership, Prior Security Issues
Not long after IBM sold its Thinkpad laptop division to a Chinese company in 2004, the State Department issued a ban on the laptops from being on the…
Llewellyn Jones
Mar 19, 2022
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Hunter Biden-Affiliated Metabiota and Its Non-Existent Failure on Ebola
Metabiota is a San Francisco-based health startup known for tracking epidemics. It's currently gotten some attention because it received funding…
Llewellyn Jones
Apr 1, 2022
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FTX Tokenized Gamestop, AMC Stock On The Day Of Their Short Squeeze
In the fourth week of January of 2021, the stocks for the video game reseller Gamestop (GME) and the movie theater chain AMC shot up to become the…
Llewellyn Jones
Nov 22, 2022
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Large Discrepancy In Salary Reporting by Universities
The Department of Education collects financial statistics from universities that includes expenses such as salaries and benefits in their Integrated…
Llewellyn Jones
Sep 12, 2021
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Foreign Contributions to Universities Dominated by a Few Countries
Total foreign contributions—as donations or general payments—to American universities in 2019 almost topped $4 billion. That may only be a sliver of the…
Llewellyn Jones
Oct 22, 2021
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2018's Sudden Drop in Cancer Incidence
Cancer rates have been in decline for decades, often attributed to changes in habits, new approaches to cancer treatments, and early detection. But in…
Llewellyn Jones
Apr 14, 2022
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Georgia, D.C. Rank Last in Clearing Criminal Court Cases
Criminal court clearance rates—the rate at which a court clears cases from their docket—took a dive in 2020 as the pandemic shut down court systems…
Llewellyn Jones
Jun 14, 2022
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Dispute of Oil Contract in Congolese Park Presaged Human Rights Accusations
Salonga park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a 36,000 square kilometer reserve in the Congo river basin, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and…
Llewellyn Jones
Dec 30, 2021
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Major Pharmacy Chains Account for a Third of Opioid Distributions
Major pharmaceutical chains, specifically CVS/Caremark, Walgreen’s and Rite Aid, account for over a third of all distributions of opioids according to…
Llewellyn Jones
Jun 16, 2020
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Average Cost of Electricity for PG&E Now Higher Than During California Energy Crisis
The average cost of purchased electricity for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is now more than what it was during the California electricity crisis of…
Llewellyn Jones
Sep 10, 2020
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Little Correlation Between Gasoline Prices and Inflation Until 2021
In testimony to the Senate Banking Committee in March, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that every $10 increase in a barrel of oil leads to a .2…
Llewellyn Jones
Sep 26, 2022
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Little Correlation Between Gasoline Prices and Inflation Until 2021
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2011 Drought Led to Largest Crop Insurance Payout, Particularly for Texas Cotton
Ten years ago, prices for commodities like corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and cotton spiked three years after the last price spike around 2008. A…
Llewellyn Jones
Jul 31, 2021
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2011 Drought Led to Largest Crop Insurance Payout, Particularly for Texas Cotton
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