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| Alaskan wonderland with a Twin Peaks flipside: North Pole in the spotlight Summer is actually peak tourism season in North Pole, driven by cruise-ship arrivals in Alaska and more forgiving weather. But there is a steady flow of visitors in winter, too, who also come to see the aurora borealis. Less manageable is the steadily increasing mountain of children's letters to Santa that ...
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| California wildfire becomes largest on record in the state Incremental increases in burned acreage detected by daily aerial surveys since then have been largely due to controlled-burning operations conducted by firefighters to clear swaths of vegetation between the smoldering edges of the fire zone and populated areas. The fire has destroyed over 1,000 ...
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One simple strategy saved me thousands of dollars in 2017 In general, I'm pretty good with knowing about how much money I'm spending, as I keep track of my daily purchases in an Excel spreadsheet. But on the cash diet, I always knew exactly how much I had remaining in my budget — I simply opened my wallet and counted my bills. It was also eye-opening to ...
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| How Christmas Eve in Germany this year clashes with commercialism Bakeries, kiosks, and shops in train stations have long enjoyed an exception to this law and there are also special cases made for a limited number of shopping Sundays linked to events. For example, in Berlin, the state has allowed for eight Sunday shopping days in 2017, in connection with Jazzfest or ...
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| A 15-Year-Old Work of Gender Essentialism in the Age of #MeToo One of the open secrets that has been stripped of its secrecy in America's current moment of #MeToo reckoning has been the nature of the secrets themselves. The spaces they have occupied. The structures that have allowed them to flourish out in the open for so long. The fact that women have been ...
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| The Secret To Finding Purpose In Your Career As millennials, we aren't working just to get by or to simply take home a paycheck. We want our careers to have meaning and be full of purpose. But how do we find this? I spent years relentlessly pursuing a path in foreign diplomacy, obtaining two Masters degrees and putting in the time, before I found ...
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| 2017: The strange, scary and superlative, in 11 charts News outlets consistently published more articles and, in turn, received a bigger share of page views for pieces about Trump than any other major topic we searched, according to Parse.ly Insights, a tool that measures how much attention articles receive across hundreds of major global publishers.
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| Rajoy and Puigdemont in new showdown The Spanish prime minister and Catalan separatist leaders engaged in a new showdown on Friday (22 December) after regional elections in Catalonia gave a small majority of seats to separatists. "More than a million people are in favour of Catalonia's independence. It is not a fiction, it is real," the ...
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| Paradise Papers: US puts sanctions on billionaire over dealings in DRC The US government has imposed sanctions on the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, whose African business dealings were exposed in the Paradise Papers, over "hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of opaque and corrupt mining and oil deals" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a strongly ...
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