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North Korea showcases best hospitals despite lack of power, running water outside capital
In the lobby of Pyongyang's maternity hospital, a government guide pauses during a tour, pointing down to an elaborate flower pattern glowing in buffed red and green marble.
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What Comes After Bitcoin: The Future of Cryptocurrencies
It's time for the Internet to revolutionize our banking system, and Bitcoin is just one of the cryptocurrencies vying for a spot in your digital wallet.
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America's artificial heartland: The actual back end of America
Every time you set foot in a Whole Foods store, you are stepping into one of the most carefully designed consumer experiences on the planet. Produce is stacked into black bins in order to accentuate its colour and freshness. Sale items peek out from custom-made crates, distressed to look as though they’ve just fallen off a farmer’s truck. Every detail in the store, from the font on a sign to a countertop’s wood finish, is designed to make you feel like you’re in a country market.
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Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t.
In the Andean highlands of Bolivia and Peru, the broom-like, purple-flowered goosefoot plant is spreading over the barren hillsides–further and further every spring. When it’s dried, threshed, and processed through special machines, the plant yields a golden stream of seeds called quinoa, a protein-rich foodstuff that’s been a staple of poor communities here for millennia. Now, quinoa exports have brought cash raining down on the dry land, which farmers have converted into new clothes, richer..
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You’re Spending Too Much: Why saving, not spending, is what the economy really needs.
The U.S. economic recovery has, by many metrics, been gaining steam over the last few months. The most recent job numbers were stellar, consumer confidence is as high as it’s been since the financial crisis, and the real estate upswing continues. Yet there is another side to this story.
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Coca-Cola Goes Flat In Q2 As Americans Drink Less Soda
Coca-Cola, the beverage giant battling changing tastes at home in America and other developed markets, reported declining second-quarter profit and a drop in volume growth in several key markets.
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France learns to speak 'touriste'
France has long had a reputation — particularly in the English-speaking world — for being a bit difficult to visit. We love to hate it, with its surly waiters and superior shopkeepers. But we also love to love it: More people visit France than any other country in the world.
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Surprising Solutions for a Bankrupt City
Detroit has plenty of company in cities that have faced dire financial prospects. From selling Roosevelt’s rifle to selling the whole town, a look at the innovative ways municipalities have found extra cash.
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The Breadwinner Complex
While men seem to welcome the existence of dual income households and marriages marked by (mostly) shared responsibilities, there’s a hitch: The guys still want to be the primary breadwinner. That is, she can bring home the bacon, so long as it’s not all of it. Or even most of it.
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How Detroit Really Is Like America
Detroit’s collapse into bankruptcy has been held up by conservatives as a synecdoche for America’s future under Barack Obama. In its literal sense, this is totally wrong — Detroit’s troubles are unique in their severity. In a broader sense, though, there is some truth here. Detroit is a synecdoche for America — not America’s future, but its past.
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Gazing into the future of American business in China
China is wrestling with multiple issues — and so are the Americans doing business there.
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Big finance is strangling innovation
Research suggests the U.S. is producing fewer cutting-edge products than ever -- and that Wall Street is to blame
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Canadian accused of terror links in Mauritania returns home
A Canadian man jailed in Mauritania for his alleged ties to an al-Qaeda-affiliated group has returned home from the North African country.
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Detroit: Myths and truths about bankruptcy.
Two recurring misconceptions often repeated in the last several weeks: The domestic auto industry and Detroit are synonymous, and rich city pension benefits have pushed the Detroit budget into ruin.
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Europe's factories grow, China's stabilize.
Europe's factories delivered more signs last month the region is gradually leaving recession behind, according to business surveys that also eased immediate fears over the health of China's economy.
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How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes.
In this 2012 Making Sen$e report, former Reagan White House economic adviser Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve on a napkin - just the way he did for the Ford administration - and explained how it works.
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Manufacturing in U.S. Accelerates More Than Forecast
Manufacturing expanded in July at the fastest pace in more than two years, sparked by surges in orders and production that signal companies are growing more optimistic about the U.S. economy’s prospects.
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This Is What Would Happen If Fast-Food Workers Got Raises
Food-service workers are among the lowest paid in the country. Here’s what Payscale.com data, based on about 3,000 employee surveys, show about how much workers are making at the country’s 10 biggest fast-food chains compared with workers in other fields. Not all the chains listed here are facing protests this week...
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China’s Collapse Will Be Worse Than Soviet Union, Xinhua Says
Russell Leigh Moses notes at China Real Time that a recent Xinhua News Agency headline, “The consequences of China’s collapse will be even worse than the Soviet Union’s,” has sparked a strong debate on Chinese social media sites.
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China to ditch its one-child policy as ageing crisis looms
China's new leaders are close to abandoning the country's one-child policy, belatedly moving to avert an ageing crunch as the work force goes into sharp decline.
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