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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…
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Metabiota is a San Francisco-based health startup known for tracking epidemics. It's currently gotten some attention because it received funding…
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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…
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The Department of Education collects financial statistics from universities that includes expenses such as salaries and benefits in their Integrated…
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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…
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Cancer rates have been in decline for decades, often attributed to changes in habits, new approaches to cancer treatments, and early detection. But in…
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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…
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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…
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Major pharmaceutical chains, specifically CVS/Caremark, Walgreen’s and Rite Aid, account for over a third of all distributions of opioids according to…
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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…
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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…
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Ten years ago, prices for commodities like corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and cotton spiked three years after the last price spike around 2008. A…
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