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☆ I'm pregnant at 47. It's not how I once pictured things, but it was the right path for me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Heather Grossmann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

That was eight years ago and followed an egg-freezing debacle that made it blindingly clear my path to parenthood would be circuitous, at best. @#$" — assumedly a stand-in for an expletive and, as it turned out, a very accurate foreshadowing of what was to come. Being pregnant at my age has proven a challenge, in more ways than oneNow, at 47, I am eight months pregnant and nearly downright blissful. AdvertisementLast summer, following two surgeries (one nearly killed me) for uterine fibroids, I was finally ready to go. The truth is, there was no other path to parenthood for me.

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☆ Will the total solar eclipse disrupt your cell service?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( John Towfighi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —As darkness envelops millions of people during Monday’s total solar eclipse, spectators will hold their cellphones skyward to capture the moment. A family looks through a pair of giant solar eclipse glasses at Veterans Memorial Park in Dripping Springs, Texas, on April 4, 2024. When the last total solar eclipse cut a path across America in 2017, AT&T reported network usage spikes up to 15% around certain cell towers in the path of totality. People view the solar eclipse at 'Top of the Rock' observatory at Rockefeller Center, August 21, 2017 in New York City. “A total eclipse of the sun is unlike any other experience that a human being can have.

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☆ Trump’s Biden Mockery Upsets People Who Stutter: ‘We’ve Heard This Before’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When she saw the video start to circulate of former President Donald J. Trump at a rally on Saturday imitating President Biden stuttering, she had two competing reactions. Mr. Trump had made fun of Mr. Biden’s stutter before, and a part of Ms. McManus figured he would do it again. But as she watched and rewatched the clip, the other reaction was a painful one. “I think it gets to a very visceral feeling for all people who stutter,” said Ms. McManus, 35, a palliative care nurse practitioner in Providence, R.I., who said she was an unaffiliated former Democrat. Heather Grossman, a speech pathologist who works with people who stutter, burst into tears thinking of her patients while she watched it.

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☆ Don't want Russia to successfully invade your country? Then do this.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Even though Russia may dwarf a small state, that doesn't guarantee a successful airport seizure. AdvertisementHere's some advice for nations who don't want Russian troops as uninvited guests: Guard your airport. However, other Russian airport takedowns have been largely successful. Stringer points to a special airport defense regiment that Switzerland stationed at Zurich Airport during the Cold War, as a good model. "Understanding and delineating the sequence of events Russia has historically used to initiate a coup and devising countermeasures to thwart these actions may prove critical in defending against the next Russian invasion."

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☆ Tourists are paddle boarding and frolicking in one of Earth's driest locations after record rains
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewHeavy rainfall created a temporary lake in Death Valley National Park, one of Earth's driest locations, prompting travelers to take a potentially once-in-a-lifetime swim. The unexpected phenomenon began earlier this week at Death Valley's Badwater Basin after recent rainstorms battered California. Tourists wading through Death Valley's temporary lake. Tourists paddle boarding and wading in Death Valley's temporary lake. Two tourists sit beside Death Valley's temporary lake.

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☆ I live off the grid in a 300-square-foot tiny home with my husband and 2 kids. It feels luxurious compared with our suburban life.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ten years ago I was living a typical suburban life on the outskirts of Denver. But along the way we've created a much more luxurious and free lifestyle than the one we were living in suburbia. AdvertisementI started trying to live more consciously when the kids were youngOur journey started in an unlikely place: Netflix documentaries. Casey and I felt the only way to really live by our values was to build a house. I wanted to be physically healthier by living off the grid, but not at the expense of our morals.

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☆ Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, linked with cognitive decline, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Polycystic ovary syndrome, known as PCOS, has long been known for symptoms such as missed periods or excess body hair. Polycystic ovary syndrome refers to symptoms related to a hormonal imbalance in people assigned female at birth. “Our results suggest that people with this condition have lower memory and thinking skills and subtle brain changes at midlife. The findings highlight “potential cognitive vulnerabilities in women with PCOS, though it’s important to know that these are cognitive weaknesses, not impairments,” Maki said. For one, the study showed an association between PCOS and cognitive decline, but didn’t prove that the condition causes cognitive decline, the authors said.

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☆ Bonds vs. Bond Funds: How Higher Rates Are Changing the Calculation
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The new era of higher interest rates has reignited a long-smoldering Wall Street debate: Is it better for ordinary investors to buy individual bonds outright? Or shares of bond mutual funds? During the yearslong period of near-zero interest rates, the answer seemed simple: Funds had low fees and were easy to buy and sell, and share values rose alongside bond prices. If any one bond defaulted, losses were minimal.

☆ Investors Like New York Subways. San Francisco’s BART? Not So Much.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Muni Funds That Use Borrowed Money Take a Big Hit
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Opinion: Julia Ormond is speaking for a generation of women who won’t be silenced
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Ormond’s claim alleges that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 1995 after a business dinner and that Ormond told her agents about it, and that they advised her against speaking out about it. “Harvey Weinstein categorically denies the allegations made against him by Julia Ormond and he is prepared to vehemently defend himself,” a representative for Weinstein told CNN in a statement. It includes awful, if unsurprising, details from the lawsuit about what happened when she told her agents at the time. In addition, after the incident and her disclosure of it to her agents, Ormond says CAA lost interest in representing her and her career was damaged dramatically anyway. I once wrote an awards-season story about an actor/director accused of sexual harassment by multiple women on his team.

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☆ Why Wisconsin’s Pension Chief Earns Eight Times the Governor’s Salary
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Cedar Key: Hurricane Idalia turned a 'haven for artists' into a flooded wreck
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesA view of the flooding in Cedar Key, Florida, on August 30, 2023. Julio Cesar Chavez/ReutersPhotos on the Cedar Key Fire Rescue Facebook account showing some of the early destruction. And unlike Key West, Cedar Key has avoided high-end commercial development along its shores and remains a low-key spot. What Idalia did to Cedar KeyA vehicle was partially submerged after the arrival of Hurricane Idalia in Cedar Key on Wednesday. “Everything is flooded,” Shely Boivin, the manager of a beachfront motel in Cedar Key, told CNN.

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☆ How Did Things Go So Wrong at This Arizona Park Built With Muni Bonds?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Heather Gillers | Photographs Caitlin O Hara For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Shortage in School Bus Drivers Is Getting Worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Colbi Edmonds | More About Colbi Edmonds | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After the first day of school in Louisville, Ky., Patrick Lester could not find his 6-year-old daughter, Adara. After he waited for 40 minutes at the bus stop, a phone call to the school revealed that she had been put on another bus, Mr. Lester said. But school staff members could not confirm whether she had been dropped off, nor could they reach the driver. His partner, Heather Gray, left work and drove around the neighborhood, looking for Adara. “And the bus driver had kicked her off and told her to walk home.”

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☆ 4 Americans moved to New Zealand for safety, scenic hikes, and the small-town feel. "I just felt this calm, like, 'I'm home,'" one said.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He moved back to his home base of Irvine, California, in 2003 but always hoped to return to New Zealand. Four Americans who moved to New Zealand told Insider their reasons for departing the US. A Los Angeles resident visited for 20 years before making his move more permanentJon Kroll lived in Los Angeles for 35 years and visited New Zealand on and off for 20 years as a break from the congestion of Los Angeles. He downsized from his four-bedroom home in Los Angeles. Wellington, New Zealand, provides the small-town feel his family was looking forNative Wyomingite Ryan Rogers departed for New Zealand more than a decade ago for work.

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☆ Some Hospitals That Spent Big on Nurses During Pandemic Are Now Short on Cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Heather Gillers | Melanie Evans | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Wall Street Sours on America’s Downtowns
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Pension Funds Consider Unloading Stocks, Adding Credit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System is moving to lower risk without bringing down returns. Photo: Max Whittaker for The Wall Street JournalSome of the nation’s largest pension funds are looking at pulling back on stocks and adding private credit, while grappling with the possibility of a prolonged economic slowdown. Board members of the $307 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System voted Thursday to reduce the fund’s stockholdings to 38% from 42%, a shift staff and consultants said would lower the fund’s risk level without bringing down returns. The public pension fund, the nation’s second-largest, is closely watched by other retirement managers.

☆ Muni Junk Bond King John Miller to Retire
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Amazon Union President Chris Smalls Seen Fighting Worker in Video
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Katherine Long | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

On the night of December 5, the president of the Amazon Labor Union pummeled another union member. Some longtime Amazon Labor Union organizers decided to begin organizing on their own, without Smalls. All three said they believe in Smalls' mission and support the goals of the Amazon Labor Union, but worry about Smalls' ability to lead. Amazon Labor Union members consoled each other after the union lost the vote at its second warehouse, LDJ5, last April. One purpose of the organization appears to be to raise funds for the Amazon Labor Union, according to its certificate of incorporation.

☆ Rising Rates Take Some Shine Off Private Markets
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After years of shifting money into private market investments, public pension and investment funds are taking a fresh look at publicly traded debt, thanks to the highest yields in more than a decade. “Bonds are back,” said California State Teachers’ Retirement System investment chief Christopher Ailman . He predicted that public pension funds will shift an additional 2% to 5% of assets into publicly traded debt, reversing a multidecade trend of shrinking fixed-income portfolios.

☆ A grassroots group took on Amazon and won. Then came the hard part
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Amazon still refuses to recognize the union or come to the bargaining table, dashing the Staten Island workers’ hopes of creating their first contract. Union organizer Christian Smalls (L) celebrates following the April 1, 2022, vote for the unionization of the Amazon Staten Island warehouse in New York. “I told Christian, ‘We have a problem, you need to stop traveling, you need to focus on the workers,’” Goodall told CNN. The company has claimed the independent federal agency tasked with overseeing union elections exerted “inappropriate and undue influence” with the Staten Island effort. An Amazon employee signs a labor union authorization for representation form outside the Amazon LDJ5 fulfillment center in the Staten Island borough of New York, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022.

☆ The Unraveling of the U.S. News College Rankings
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Melissa Korn | Photographs Christopher Capozziello For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken floated the idea past a small circle of colleagues. And then, on Nov. 16, she started the revolt. Like many university administrators, Ms. Gerken had tried for years to get U.S. News & World Report to rethink its law-school rankings. The problem for Ms. Gerken wasn’t Yale Law’s score—it had been No. She worried about the broader effect on schools and their priorities.

☆ Some Public Pension Funds Are Pulling Back on Private Equity
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Heather Gillers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Some U.S. public pension and investment funds are pulling back on private equity after a decade of state and local retirement systems aggressively pursuing the expensive, risky and hard-to-trade asset class. Maryland’s $65 billion retirement system is investing less new money in private equity. At Alaska’s $77 billion state fund, the investment chief wants to cancel a planned ramp-up. And the $615 million pension fund of Mendocino County, Calif., last month opted against introducing private equity to its investment mix.

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