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There's a place for everyone
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=59322&nl=international] This is, I
think, the unspoken fault line that divides all ideologies. If you
trace arguments about marginal tax rates or soybean tariffs or
whatever back to their origin, you will usually find a disagreement
about whether our ideal world contains all of the inhabitants of our
current world, or whether reaching Utopia will require us to toss some
folks overboard. We don’t talk much about this, because if the
people on Team Overboard were honest about who they plan to purge,
none of their intended victims would be friends with them, let alone
vote for them.

I’m on Team Nobody Goes Overboard because I believe every human has
equal moral value—that’s the axiomatic, “no evidence for it”
part. But I don’t just believe that there should be a place for
everyone. I also believe that there is a place for everyone, and
there’s plenty of evidence for that belief, and there are some
unfortunate reasons why not everyone believes it, all of which I
present to you now.

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US man sentenced for 12,000 harassing calls to Congress
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Capitol Police Chief J Thomas Manger testified to the court last year
that the harassment campaign coincided with a 400% increase in threats
against lawmakers in Congress over the past six years.

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Dressing for the Final Frontier: What Can You Wear in Space? -
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Imagine packing for a trip to space. Your suitcase would contain
apparel that is much different from your usual vacation gear. Instead
of swimsuits, flip-flops, and sun hats, you'll need life-supporting
attire — gear that can protect you from the vacuum of space, extreme
temperatures, and harmful radiation.















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How to spot deepfakes and AI-generated images - New Scientist (No
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It can sometimes be difficult to spot AI-generated videos such as
deepfakes, in which a person’s facial expression or speech is
generated or altered. Deepfakes’ potential to misinform or disrupt
democratic processes is huge, especially given we are entering an era
where anyone can create them with just a simple text prompt. Andrea
Hickerson at the University of Mississippi and Edward J. Delp at
Purdue University in Indiana discuss the rising threat from AI-created
content and what we can do about it.

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OpenAI Says its User Numbers Have Doubled in a Year--Is This Why
Apple, Nvidia Want to Invest? - Inc.com (No paywall)
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The AI market is heating up, and ChatGPT, the world's best known
chatbot, faces accelerating competition from Google, Anthropic and
even Meta. But according to data released yesterday by OpenAI,
ChatGPT's crown is secure for now as its weekly user numbers
reached 200 million people, double the figure from 2023.














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How the U.S. Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund
Semiconductor Manufacturing - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
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In February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was deciding
whether or not to sign off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
for $39 billion in direct semiconductor manufacturing incentives. But
this NOFO had several unconventional provisions: a pre-application
(pre-app) to the actual application, upside sharing provisions to
align incentives, and funding milestones so that only awardees making
progress would receive additional funds.

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Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day.
Why are they so hard to change? - STAT (No paywall)
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Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In her 20 years
caring for children in Boston, she had seen hundreds of kids with
suspected urinary tract infections. Each time, she’d turn to a
calculator, used by all Boston Children’s Hospital clinicians, to
judge the youngest children’s risk. Did the infant have a high
fever? Add a point. Was she a girl? Add two points. 














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Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $740 Million—Here's How Much A Winner
Could Take Home After Taxes - Forbes (No paywall)
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The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $740 millionâthe fourth biggest
jackpot prize of the year so farâafter no tickets matched all six
numbers drawn on Tuesday night, although the winner will take home a
much smaller payout after paying their taxes.

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2024's Comedians You Should and Will Know - Vulture (No paywall)
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The comedy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis in 2024. Name-brand
comedy venues are opening new locations, beloved local venues are
being bought out by megacorporations, and streaming-service-helmed
comedy festivals are usurping the old-fashioned ones. Post–WGA
strike, TV-development execs are growing green-light-shy; other
streamers are entering the stand-up fray; and YouTube specials are
becoming just as, if not more, worthy of watching as Netflix
specials. A comedian asking an audience member what they do for a
living is transforming from age-old stand-up cliché to heated (and
mockworthy) comedy debate, and platforms like Instagram and
TikTok, which only a few years ago were looked down upon, are now
churning out some of the most consistently talented performers on the
internet.














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Benjamin Netanyahu doubles down on Gaza strategy as he seeks to ride
out latest storm - FT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=59322&nl=international]
Israeli prime minister remains defiant over hostage deal with Hamas
despite general strike and mass protests

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How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi
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For a variety of reasons, including operational security, a crew's
internet access is regularly restricted while underway, to preserve
bandwidth for the mission and to keep their ship safe from nefarious
online attacks.














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NATO nation scrambles aircraft during Russian attack on Lviv
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Warsaw has been forced to scramble its fighter jets on multiple
occasions throughout the war as part of measures to protect its
airspace during large-scale Russian missile strikes on Ukraine. Poland
has said that Russian missiles fired at western Ukraine entered its
airspace several times. Moscow has said incursions were accidental.

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The hidden cause behind your miserable flight delays
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Independent journalism is more important than ever. Vox is here to
explain this unprecedented election cycle and help you understand the
larger stakes. We will break down where the candidates stand on major
issues, from economic policy to immigration, foreign policy, criminal
justice, and abortion. We’ll answer your biggest questions, and
we’ll explain what matters — and why. This timely and essential
task, however, is expensive to produce.














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Your Cynicism Isn't Helping Anybody
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When I describe “cynics,” you might conjure up a certain type of
person: the toxic, smirking misanthrope, oozing contempt. But they are
not a fixed category, like New Zealanders or anesthesiologists.
Cynicism is a spectrum. We all have cynical moments, or in my case,
cynical years.

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Maybe you're expecting too much from your Airbnb - WSJ (No paywall)
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The number of short-term rentals on sites such as Airbnb and Vrbo hit
a record high in July, according to AirDNA, a market-research firm.
Hosts now have more competition for bookings, while guests have more
options. And opinions.














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Death, Desperation, and Dollars: The Walkathon Craze of the 1920s and
'30s
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Eddie Lopez, his face drooped in a mask of misery, didn’t look up.
He could not do much more than allow himself to be dragged along by
his partner, Mary Martin. Ahead of them, another couple walked around
and around in circles, an emcee calling the turtle-like race from a
microphone. “It’ll be over soon,” he said. “Eddie’s going
fast.”

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Nike CEO John Donahoe on how he manages sleep health in a hectic life
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Success, especially early success, rarely comes without pulling some
all-nighters, but among the market's most well-known leaders, there is
recognition that burning the midnight oil is not a smart long-term
strategy for productivity.













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Chase Bank 'Glitch,' Social Media Trend Just Plain 'Fraud' |
Entrepreneur
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A "new" TikTok trend claiming people could get free money from Chase
Bank ATMs is nothing more than old-fashioned check fraud, the company
says.

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How the Higgs Field (Actually) Gives Mass to Elementary Particles |
Quanta Magazine
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The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012
confirmed what we particle physicists had long suspected: that there
is a field permeating the cosmos that generates the masses of
elementary particles. Unfortunately, physicists have found it
challenging to explain to everyone else how this so-called Higgs field
accomplishes its mighty task.

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How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices | Aeon
Essays
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is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center,
City University of New York. He is the author of Madness: A
Philosophical Exploration (2022) and The Madness Pill: The Quest to
Create Insanity and One Doctor’s Discovery that Transformed
Psychiatry (St Martin’s Press, forthcoming). He also writes for
Psychology Today on different paradigms of mental illness.

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'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam
removal in US history is complete - what happens next?
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Brook Thompson has been fishing on the Klamath River ever since she
could stand up in a boat. To Thompson and her family, who are part of
the Karuk and Yurok tribes from northern California, fishing is second
nature. "The river was our grocery store," the 28-year-old explains.
That was until a catastrophic fish die off happened in 2002.

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This ChatGPT Pizza Is A Hit — Here's What's In It
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In case you missed it, in Dubai, the restaurant and delivery chain
Dodo Pizza added a new ChatGPT-created pizza to its menu â and it's
flying off the shelves like hot cakes, according to the BBC.

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What makes Europe so liveable? - The Economist (No paywall)
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EVERY YEAR the EIU, our sister company, ranks a big group of global
cities on their liveability. This year’s rankings have seen quite a
bit of movement. But the top of the index remains dominated by the
continent that best combines stability with a high quality of culture
and the environment, education, infrastructure and health care, all of
which the index’s authors aim to measure objectively. When the
scores are done, Europe can take another bow.

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The Writer Danzy Senna on Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Biracial
Identity in America - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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In fiction and nonfiction, the author Danzy Senna focusses on the
experience of being biracial in a nation long obsessed with color
lines. Now that Kamala Harris is the Democratic candidate for
President, some of Senna’s concerns have come to the fore in
political life. Donald Trump attacked Harris as a kind of race
manipulator, implying that she had been Indian American before
becoming Black for strategic purposes. The claim was bizarre and
false, but Senna feels that it reflected a mind-set in white America.
“Mixed-race people are sort of up for debate and speculation, and
there’s a real return to the idea that your appearance is what
matters, not what your background is or your identity,” she tells
Julian Lucas, who’s written about Senna’s work in The New Yorker.
“And, if your appearance is unclear to us, then we’re going to
debate you and we’re going to discount you and we’re going to
accuse you of being an impostor.” Senna talks about why she
describes people like herself and Lucas using the old word
“mulatto,” despite its racist etymology. “The word
‘biracial’ or ‘multiracial’ to me is completely
meaningless,” she says, “because I don’t know which races were
mixing. And those things matter when we’re talking about
identity.” Senna’s newest novel, “Colored Television,”
follows a literary writer somewhat like herself, trying to find a new
career in the more lucrative world of TV.

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Different, Together - Scientific American (No paywall)
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In 2015 a woman posted a poorly exposed photograph of a striped dress
on Tumblr. Immediately there was disagreement that spread across the
Internet: some saw the dress as blue and black, others as white and
gold. Remarkably, once you see the dress as either blue/black or
white/gold, it may be very hard to change camps. That people could
have such different perceptions of the same lace-trimmed dress is a
good reminder: each human has a unique brain, influenced by their
environment and developmental experiences. Dress-color disagreements
aside, research is revealing that humans have a rich diversity of
minds. And when they come together, they can conjure fresh
in­­sights and innovations.

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Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares
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Some institutions, particularly in emerging markets, have already
started cutting rates, but many more are forecast to follow this year,
including the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the
Bank of England.

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Court handcuffs employees with non-compete agreements -- again
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I hate non-compete contracts — and I’m not alone. They restrict
workers’ ability to move from job to job, which in turn reduces
salaries. The only way I ever got a significant raise during my career
was when I changed employers. So, when the US Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) banned non-compete agreements, I, and a few million
employees, were pleased as punch. 

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US effort to broker Mideast cease-fire gets a new sense of urgency -
WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=59322&nl=international]
The killing of an American-Israeli hostage has added new urgency to
the White House’s attempt to halt the fighting in Gaza with an
updated final proposal designed to get Israel and Hamas to reach a
cease-fire agreement.

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A Democracy With Everything but a Choice
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Amid the feverish handicapping of an election often called crucial to
the future of American democracy, Missouri tells a different story,
repeated time and again across a deeply polarized country where it can
feel futile to run as a Democrat or Republican in a stronghold of the
other party. In half of all races for partisan offices, candidates are
elected — often multiple times — without opposition.

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Tim Sheehy Was Recorded Using Racist Stereotypes About Native
Americans
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“Representative Zinke and Senator Daines have begun to understand
these really important demographic groups and have been investing in
them,” Ms. Lin said, referring to Steve Daines, the state’s
Republican senator, “and it’s surprising that Sheehy is not doing
this.”

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An Agonizing Dilemma: When Obesity Prevents a Joint Replacement
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Less than half of orthopedic surgeons in a survey published last year
said they would operate on a patient with a B.M.I. over 40 — more
than 22 million American adults fell into that category in 2017-18.
Only 11 percent would operate on one of the 3.9 million Americans with
a B.M.I. over 50. And patients with a B.M.I. over 55 would be rejected
almost everywhere. Just 3 percent of U.S. orthopedists would operate.

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As Groups Have Shifted, Has It Become a 'Normal' Election?
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The Democratic lead among young voters is back. In high-quality polls
over the last month, Vice President Harris leads Mr. Trump by an
average of 20 points among the youngest reported demographic cohort
(whether that be 18 to 29 or 18 to 34 in a given poll). The same polls
showed Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump tied among young voters in July. Older
voters, meanwhile, have barely edged at all toward Ms. Harris. Put it
together, and the usual generational divide in American politics has
returned.

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Gazans Grapple With Prospect of Israeli Presence Postwar
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The latest high-level effort to reach a cease-fire agreement in Gaza
ended on Aug. 25, with Israel and Hamas, the group that governs the
enclave, remaining far apart on several critical issues. One of those,
according to an American official who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations, is whether Israeli
forces will remain on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt, and if
so, how many.

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Deregulation and Dishonesty Led to Deadly Grenfell Fire, Inquiry Finds
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Among the companies that came under the harshest criticism was
Arconic, an American aluminum maker formerly known as Alcoa. It sold
the cladding for Grenfell, the report said, but “deliberately
concealed from the market the true extent of the danger” of using it
in a high-rise structure.

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Iowa Lt. Gov Adam Gregg resigns in surprise announcement
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"However, as Scripture reminds us, for everything there is a season,
and there is a time to every purpose under heaven," Gregg, 41, said in
the statement. "I feel my time in public service must come to a close.
This season of my life needs to be focused on my family. My kids are
growing up too fast, and statewide elected offices force me to miss
more of their lives than I can accept. While difficult, the decision
to resign from this role allows me to honor my most important
commitment ― my family."

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Greta Thunberg arrested at Gaza war protest in Copenhagen
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Pro-Palestinian protesters have set up encampments at universities
around the US and Europe since last spring to protest against
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and occupation of Palestinian
territories.

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Teenager charged for allegedly shooting San Francisco 49ers Ricky
Pearsall
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In the US, teenagers are more likely to be shot by an adult than a
peer, however the increase in homicides in recent years has reignited
fears about young people committing crimes like robberies and
shootings. And while the share of juveniles arrested for violent
crimes in the US increased from 8.7% in 2021 to 9.9% in 2022, people
under 18 remain responsible for less than 10% of the non-fatal violent
crimes in the US, according to an April analysis of crime data by the
US department of justice.

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From their experiences at Uber and PayPal, Palm founders want to make
moving cash easier for big companies | TechCrunch
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Palm has clients listed on the NASDAQ and NYSE but declined to share
their names. Palm plans to use the fundraise to expand its team,
especially within product and engineering. The company’s closed beta
is also now accepting new customers. The company’s beta ends at the
end of this year. 

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Traders Weigh 'Buy the Dip' Opportunities Amid Stocks Selloff
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“Today’s fall is just a reaction to big drop in New York shares
overnight. Given that the US market had been rising, the decline of
this size is not a surprise,” he said. “We have lots of events in
the run-up to the FOMC on Sept 17-18 and markets will likely be
range-bound this month. But once uncertainties around those events are
cleared, we are likely to see a rally in share prices toward the end
of year.”

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Trump's Federal Election Case to Go Back Before a No-Nonsense Judge
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Before Mr. Trump’s immunity appeals put the case in limbo, Judge
Chutkan, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama,
oversaw it with a stern hand and an expeditious manner. She often
worked through the weekends and evinced little patience for the
persistent strategy by Mr. Trump and his legal team of seeking to
delay the case at every turn.

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House Republican Subpoenas Blinken Over Afghanistan Withdrawal
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Tuesday’s subpoena is the third that Mr. McCaul has issued to Mr.
Blinken in conjunction with the panel’s Afghanistan investigation.
The previous two sought documents related to the inquiry.

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Trump Says There Was 'No Conflict' at Cemetery, Despite Official
Accounts
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Still, Mr. Trump pointed to her lack of a public statement as evidence
that the conflict never took place. “Notice that the person
representing now doesn’t want to talk,” he said, and added,
referring incorrectly to the cemetery official’s gender, “He
doesn’t want to speak or talk.”

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UK shares down after Nvidia plunges almost 10%
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“[Nvidia] did report results last week where it alluded to a natural
and expected deceleration in growth: from having delivered 122% growth
in the second quarter it expects to deliver 80% growth in the third
quarter,” she said.

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Barratt: Biggest UK housing firm to build fewer homes
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Mr Thomas said the firm welcomed the government's proposed reforms of
the planning system as a "key lever to increase house building, drive
economic growth and tackle the chronic under-supply of high-quality,
sustainable homes".

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It's Party Time on the Stockholm-Helsinki Ferry
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A buzz rippled through the crowd as the 11-deck ferry carrying cargo,
cars and 2,000-plus passengers gently pulled away from its berth. For
the next several hours, the ship would thread its way through the
Stockholm Archipelago, a dense constellation of skerries and forested
islands dotted with barn-red wooden cabins and fluttering
blue-and-yellow Swedish flags, before crossing open stretches of the
northern Baltic Sea.

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Japan's Era of 'Free' Mortgages Is Coming to an End
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As a result, households are expected to find ways to cut back on other
spending — a shift that could be a drag on Japan’s economy, which
has already faltered over the past year because of weak household
spending.

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U.S. Market Slump Fuels Global Sell-Off
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Anticipation of that report has reignited concerns about a potential
slowdown in the U.S. economy. It could also provide clues about how
aggressive the Federal Reserve will be in its expected interest rate
cut later this month.

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Landon Y. Jones, Who Made People a Star Among Magazines, Dies at 80
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During Mr. Jones’s tenure, People introduced color printing; moved
its newsstand date from Monday to Friday to capture weekend
supermarket sales traffic; and made women its primary target audience.

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Can Waymo's Expanding Driverless Car Service Be a Sustainable
Business?
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While robot taxi services are not profitable right now, Waymo and
other autonomous vehicle companies like General Motors’ Cruise and
Amazon’s Zoox are vying for a share of a market that could one day
be worth as much as $5 trillion, some analysts estimate.

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Climate Change Is Making 'Last Chance Tourism' More Popular, and
Riskier
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“It’s a good example of the consequence that climate change can
have on glacier tourism,” Emmanuel Salim, an assistant professor of
geography at the University of Toulouse in France, said of the
accident.

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Missile and Drone Attacks Across Ukraine Kill at Least 7 in Lviv
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The central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih was also targeted with
attacks that damaged a hotel, high-rise buildings and educational
institutions, injuring at least five people, according to Serhiy
Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

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