Advertisement The tax bill approved by the Senate is many things, offering a huge tax cut for corporations, lower rates for the wealthy, and a big victory for Republicans and the White House. It is also an economic dagger aimed at high-tax, high-cost and generally Democratic-leaning areas — most notably ...
Read More »State of the Art: What We Lose When the World Moves On From Email
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART Though its political implications are yet unclear, the publication of an email chain in which Donald Trump Jr. arranged a June 2016 meeting with a lawyer peddling the Russian government’s help for his father’s presidential campaign ought to inspire some pretty obvious tech advice: ...
Read More »Fish lose their unique personality when they go to ‘school’
Dr Christos Ioannou and his colleagues from the School of Biological Sciences tested three-spined sticklebacks (the UK’s smallest freshwater fish) alone and in groups of ten. They found that just like in humans, braver individuals led the groups, and that the fish stuck together when making a risky decision. But ...
Read More »When Unlikely Grand Slam Finalists Lose, Many Never Get Back
Roberta Vinci’s upset of Serena Williams in the United States Open semifinals last year sent shock waves through tennis by slamming the door on Williams’s Grand Slam bid. It also catapulted Vinci, then ranked No. 43 and better known for doubles success, into one of the most unusual Grand Slam ...
Read More »Why vultures matter, and what we lose if they’re gone
Vultures. Cartoon characters in parched deserts often wish them to disappear, since circling vultures are a stereotypical harbinger of death. But, joking aside, vultures in some parts of the world are in danger of disappearing. And according to a new report from University of Utah biologists, such a loss would ...
Read More »World's richest lose $194 billion in first trading week of 2016
The world’s 400 richest people lost almost $ 194 billion this week as world stock markets began the year with a shudder on poor economic data in China and falling oil prices. Forty-seven billionaires lost $ 1 billion or more during the worst week for U.S. stocks since 2011, according ...
Read More »Growing pains: Middle-income Vietnam set to lose cheap World Bank loans
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has identified 19 World Bank-funded projects that will have to find new financing sources as Vietnam is set to be cut off from cheap loans from the lender in just two years. News website Bao Dau Tu reported on Thursday that the projects, including ...
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