We tell students they need a bachelor’s degree to get ahead. But for too many, the numbers no longer add up. By Neil Swidey.

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Submitted on August 2nd 2016 by AdelleChattre with 15 comments

At a time when conditions have vastly improved for women, gay people, disabled people and minorities in the workplace, prejudice against older workers remains among the most acceptable and pervasive “isms.” And it’s not clear that the next generations — ascendant Gen Xers and millennials — will be treated any better.

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Submitted on August 6th 2016 by gladsdotter with 2 comments

In late 2014, fledgling entrepreneur Josh Tetrick persuaded investors to plow $90 million into his vegan food startup Hampton Creek Inc. Tetrick had impressed leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms by getting his eggless Just Mayo product into Walmart, Kroger, Safeway, and other top U.S. supermarkets within about three years of starting his company. What Tetrick and his team neglected to mention is that the startup undertook a large-scale operation to buy back its own mayo, which made the product appear more popular than it really was.

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Submitted on August 7th 2016 by TNY with 2 comments

Now, the Copyright Office is taking the position that copyright gives the rightsholder the power to minutely control the public's conduct while they are in the presence of a copyrighted work.

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Submitted on August 5th 2016 by kxh

Yoshitaka Takahashi’s hands are shaking as he scores and cleans the skin of the fish in front of him. The tension rises again when his knife reaches the liver. The slightest mistake in removing the highly toxic organ could end in an agonising death for anyone who eats his fish. Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu – or puffer fish – a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.

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Submitted on August 6th 2016 by sauce with 4 comments and with 2 Related Links:

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Eric Scott uncovers some of the mystery and diffuses some of the hype surrounding bug-bitten teas during his recent trip to an Oriental Beauty tea farm.

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Submitted on August 6th 2016 by gladsdotter with 16 comments

Han Xing did not become a farmer for the money. He already had plenty, as the founder of a communications equipment company. What he wanted was food not tainted by heavy metals or fouled with pesticide. He couldn’t find it in grocery stores. So, like a rising number of wealthy Chinese, he decided to grow it himself, signing a 20-year lease on a 13-acre plot of land where he now has eight greenhouses, a giant fish pond and pens filled with more than 100 ducks, chicken and geese, the latter to defend the other poultry from local weasels.

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Submitted on August 2nd 2016 by timex

The move is part of equal pay legislation.

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Submitted on August 4th 2016 by Appaloosa

Founded in 2003, Torrentz has been a stable factor in the torrent community for over 13 years. With millions of visitors per day the site grew out to become one of the most visited torrent sites, but today this reign ends, as the popular meta-search engine has announced its shutdown. A few hours ago and without warning, Torrentz disabled its search functionality. At first sight the main page looks normal but those who try to find links to torrents will notice that they’re no longer there.

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Submitted on August 5th 2016 by messi

If the United States doesn't ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, China will be more likely to succeed with its own trade agreement.

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Submitted on August 1st 2016 by kxh with 2 comments and with 2 Related Links:

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A new wave of failures is disrupting coverage for thousands and raising new questions.

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Submitted on August 2nd 2016 by Appaloosa

SeaWorld shares sank to a record low on Thursday after the controversial aquatic theme park company reported further falls in attendance and profits. The company, which induces killer whales, dolphins and sea lions to perform tricks to entertain the public, said 494,000 fewer people visited its parks in the three months to the end of June compared with the same period a year earlier. The 7.7% drop in attendance, from 6.5 to six million, knocked more than $16m off SeaWorld’s quarterly earnings and spooked analysts...

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Submitted on August 5th 2016 by grandtheftsoul

The Trump Taj Mahal casino, opened 26 years ago by Trump but no longer owned by the candidate, announced it will shut down after Labor Day.

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Submitted on August 4th 2016 by wildcard with 1 comments

Restaurants are such staples of culinary culture that we tend to take their modern-day traits for granted. But they went through a lot of changes to become the delicious destinations we know today.

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Submitted on August 3rd 2016 by FivesandSevens

Victorian life preservers invited both drowning and mockery.

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Submitted on August 4th 2016 by Appaloosa with 2 comments

There are plenty of ways to make a bad impression in foreign countries. Martin, a 24-year-old from California, has chosen one of the most proven approaches. The fun-loving member of the United States military is drinking his way through Europe this summer. He has nothing but rave reviews about his trip so far. He's partied in the streets of Barcelona, in a vacation apartment on the island of Ibiza and on a party boat. He is leaving for Prague tomorrow morning to party some more, but before then he plans to party his way through Berlin as part of a guided pub crawl.

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Submitted on August 6th 2016 by bradd

A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building. By Sarah Knapton.

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Submitted on August 3rd 2016 by AdelleChattre

Gawker Media Chief Executive Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy protection on Monday, according to court documents that name his largest creditor as Hulk Hogan, a former professional wrestler who won a $140 million court judgment against the news website over a sex tape it posted. Denton listed assets of $10 million to $50 million and liabilities of $100 million to $500 million in his Chapter 11 petition filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Submitted on August 2nd 2016 by dynamite

Over four decades, the Hobet coal mine transformed from a small operation to a magnet for corporate buyouts. Its shift tells a larger story of coal in decline.

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Submitted on August 5th 2016 by FivesandSevens

It’s no secret that the alcohol industry is one of the sleaziest opponents to the legalization of marijuana, but the latest WikiLeaks exposure of the Democratic National Committee’s email transmissions, which showed the party’s conspiracy to prevent Senator Bernie Sanders from becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, also revealed that Big Booze is scratching the backs of Congress in an effort to apply pressure to the issue of stoned driving.

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Submitted on August 7th 2016 by grandtheftsoul