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☆ I never wanted to have kids in the US. Now, I'm happily raising a toddler in Germany.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Susannah Edelbaum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She ended up getting married and having a baby in Germany but has struggled with a lot of bureaucracy. Germany offers excellent maternity care, including postpartum home visits by a midwife, and down the road, various degrees of subsidized day care — the exact setup varies state by state. But in Berlin both midwives and day care centers are in short supply, according to local news channel RBB24. The author says that Berlin is filled with playgrounds and her toddler always wants to stop and play. Susannah EdelbaumI'm thrilled to be raising a toddler in BerlinDespite the late start, I found a midwife.

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☆ To my son, born in the climate crisis: These helpers changed the fate of the titi
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Bill Weir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

As River Weir has grown, Bill has been collecting stories of hope, resilience and Earth repair to share with him. “I became really frustrated by the lack of transparency,” Charlie told me. And at an expo in 2006, the fate of the titis turned for the better when the Vargas family walked in. But when she needed $1.2 million to buy nearly 1,000 acres of neighboring ranchland, Chris needed to find more helpers. “It may take a day to cut a hectare of forest,” she told me as we hiked past her plantings and into a meticulous greenhouse.

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☆ A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

The Harvard professor's research is bankrolled by tech tycoons "pissed off" at academia's dogma. But this boundary-pushing is exactly why he's backed Loeb's research. AdvertisementDesch, the astrophysicist from Arizona University, posted a critique of Loeb's work on arXiv alleging "multiple fatal flaws with the manuscript's arguments." Asked whether he no longer believes in a possible technological origin for the meteor, Loeb said they need to investigate further. As he plans more extravagant expeditions to prove the origin of the interstellar meteor, Loeb likens his critics to crows pecking at the neck of an eagle.

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☆ An Arms Smugger, a Daring Heist, and the Birth of Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +35 min

Joining the Haganah, Schwimmer discovered, wasn't as easy as just strolling through the door. "He felt he had to do his part in creating a Jewish state, so this could never happen again," Schwimmer recalled. Rather than melt down the surplus weapons for scrap, Liff told Greenspun to take as much as he wanted — free of charge. "It went against the grain to buck the same government we had fought to preserve only a few years before," Hank Greenspun recalled. In 2001, at the urging of Brian Greenspun, Schwimmer received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.

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☆ 'America's greatest gift to Israel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +35 min

As the country's founder and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, once declared, "America's greatest gift to Israel was Al Schwimmer." Joining the Haganah, Schwimmer discovered, wasn't as easy as just strolling through the door. "He felt he had to do his part in creating a Jewish state, so this could never happen again," Schwimmer recalled. Rather than melt down the surplus weapons for scrap, Liff told Greenspun to take as much as he wanted — free of charge. In 2001, at the urging of Brian Greenspun, Schwimmer received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton.

☆ ‘Shogun’ Series Premiere Recap: House of Lords
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Sean T. Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There is no shogun, no unquestioned and absolute ruler, holding the country’s fractious lords together when “Shogun” begins. The Erasmus, with its cargo of guns and ammo and its irascible English pilot, is the harbinger of a world war into which Japan doesn’t even realize it’s been drafted. Adapted by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks from the 1975 novel by James Clavell, “Shogun” co-stars Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne, the Erasmus’s pilot, or navigator. Blackthorne is part of a small fleet commissioned by England to find the mysterious and very wealthy island of Japan, and harry any Catholic forces along the way. This is no fit state under which to meet Lord Yabushige (Tadanobu Asano), an opportunistic sadist who aims to hang onto the ship and its weaponry for himself.

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☆ Opinion | Sex and the Capital City
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“The Golden Bachelor” showed that sex is not just for spring chickens. Hearing aids and making out in a hot tub can go blissfully together. Now comes the Golden President. Even though fretful questions about his age have engulfed Joe Biden’s campaign, one thing is clear: His romance with Jill is still crackling. At a party at his house at the Naval Observatory when he was vice president, he told me about the frisson of watching his wife come down the stairs, dressed up for a special occasion.

Persons: ”, Joe Biden’s, Jill Organizations: Naval Observatory

☆ Ford, UAW reach local labor deal to avert strike at Kentucky plant
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Ryan Anastasio | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ford Super Duty trucks are seen at the Kentucky Truck assembly plant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., April 27, 2023. Ford and a United Auto Workers local union reached a tentative deal on Wednesday to avert a strike at the automaker's most profitable plant. The UAW had threatened that nearly 9,000 workers at Ford's Kentucky truck plant would strike on Friday if local union demands were not resolved. The UAW said Tuesday the deal addresses local issues related to skilled trades, ergonomics and health and safety. Workers at the plant produce Ford Super Duty pickups as well as Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.

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DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike next week at Ford Motor Co.'s largest and most profitable factory in a dispute over local contract language. The union said Friday that nearly 9,000 workers at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville will strike on Feb. 23 if the local contract dispute is not resolved. If there's a strike, it would be the second time the union has walked out at the sprawling factory in the past year. In October, UAW workers shut down the plant during national contract negotiations that ended with large raises for employees. The union says that workers have been without a local contract for five months.

Persons: Jim Farley, Farley, Ford Organizations: DETROIT, United Auto Workers, Ford Motor Co, Kentucky, Plant, UAW, Ford, Lincoln, General Motors, U.S, Rivals General Motors Locations: Louisville, New York, U.S, Mexico

☆ UAW threatens to strike Ford truck plant in Kentucky if local issues aren't resolved
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

DETROIT – The United Auto Workers is threatening a labor strike at Ford Motor's largest U.S. plant if local union demands aren't resolved by next week. The Detroit union on Friday said nearly 9,000 UAW autoworkers at Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant could strike at 12:01 a.m. on Feb. 23 if local contract issues remain. The plant — Ford's largest in terms of employment and revenue — produces Ford Super Duty pickups as well as the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator SUVs. Local contracts differ from the national agreements that the union ratified late last year with Ford, General Motors and Chrysler parent Stellantis . The union said "core issues in Kentucky Truck Plant's local negotiations are health and safety in the plant, including minimum in-plant nurse staffing levels and ergonomic issues, as well as Ford's continued attempts to erode the skilled trades at Kentucky Truck Plant."

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☆ Amelia Earhart's relative says new sonar images could be aviator's vanished plane
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA relative of Amelia Earhart agrees that a recent sonar image could show the iconic pilot's long-vanished aircraft. It sure looks like a plane," Kleppner told The Times of London. AdvertisementEarhart and Noonan likely disappeared about 100 miles from Howland Island, near the site of the sonar images. Romeo and his team hope to retrieve the Electra from a depth of 16,400 feet if it proves to be Earhart's plane. AdvertisementThere's no guarantee it's been found, expert saysA map of the location where Earhart's plane is believed to have gone missing along her presumed flight path.

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☆ Opinion: Why we can’t let go of the mystery of Amelia Earhart
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Opinion Dorothy Cochrane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A marine robotics company recently captured an object on the ocean floor, about 15,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Earhart’s flight plan was well known. According to Earhart biographer Doris Rich, the US government had obtained permits for the countries she would stop in along the way. And it fit her need of a refueling stop in the western Pacific Ocean. In 1997, pilot Elgen Long and his wife Marie Long published the book, “Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved.” The Longs laid out facts and solid suppositions for others to follow.

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☆ 2 ocean-tech companies are competing in a multimillion-dollar race to find Amelia Earhart's wreckage. One says it may be near the finish line.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewThe race is on to find the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's ill-fated final flight. Tony Romeo and his company, Deep Sea Vision, discovered an object of similar size and shape to Amelia Earhart's iconic plane, deep in the Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea VisionRomeo says he may have solved the mystery with his sonar scans. The same aircraft radio receiver used by Amelia Earhart was recreated by Nauticos as they researched Earhart's final transmissions. Deep Sea Vision now leases its equipment to other ocean explorers to continue funding its mission.

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Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesHow did Deep Sea Vision detect the object that could be Earhart's plane? But it wasn't until the team reviewed sonar data in December that they saw the fuzzy yellow outline of what resembles a plane. “In the end, we came out with an image of a target that we believe very strongly is Amelia’s aircraft," Romeo told The Associated Press. But he said that Romeo’s team must provide “a forensic level of documentation” to prove it’s Earhart’s Lockheed. He would have expected to see straight wings and not swept wings, like the new sonar suggests, as well as engines.

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☆ An Explorer Believes He Found Amelia Earhart’s Plane. Experts Aren’t Convinced.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It is one of the greatest enduring mysteries in aviation history: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart after she took off from Lae, New Guinea, in a Lockheed 10-E Electra on July 2, 1937. Earhart was trying to become the first woman to fly around the world. She and a navigator, Fred Noonan, were headed to Howland Island, a tiny coral atoll in the southwestern Pacific, to refuel. For years, many have tried and failed to find the wreckage of their plane. Now, the head of a marine robotics company believes he has done it, although some experts remain deeply skeptical.

Persons: Amelia Earhart, Electra, Earhart, Fred Noonan Organizations: Lockheed Locations: Lae , New Guinea, Howland, Pacific

☆ Sonar imagery may have located Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane, researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. “While it is possible that this could be a plane and maybe even Amelia’s plane, it is too premature to say that definitively. In Earhart’s last communications, her radio transmissions progressively got stronger as she got closer to Howland Island, indicating that she was nearing the island before she disappeared, Cochrane said. For that reason, you can never say that something is (or isn’t) from a sonar image alone,” Jourdan said in an email. Confirming that the found anomaly is Earhart’s plane would require returning to the site to further investigate the plane, and more definitively, locating the certification “NR16020” that was printed on the underside of the missing Lockheed’s wing, Jourdan said.

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☆ A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane — and may have found it
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Amelia Earhart, 40, stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, California. Amelia Earhart took off from the airport in her £10,000 Flying Laboratory for Honolulu on the first leg of her round-the-world flight. A map of where Earhart's plane is believed to have gone missing along her presumed flight path. Romeo and his company, Deep Sea Vision, discovered an object of similar size and shape to Amelia Earhart's iconic plane, deep in the Pacific Ocean. Advertisement"It's very deep water, and the area that she could've possibly been in is huge," Tom Dettweiler, a sonar expert, told The Journal.

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☆ It’s Boom Times for Obamacare. Will They Last?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Noah Weiland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Carley Calvi came to the second floor of a public library in suburban Milwaukee one morning this month without health insurance to cover the vertigo medication she needed. Worse, she said, was not having a doctor she trusted. “I want somebody to value me as the person I am,” said Ms. Calvi, a 35-year-old woodworker. With roughly 110 options and the help of a health insurance navigator, she selected a plan with a steeply discounted $221 monthly premium, placing her among the 21.3 million people who have signed up for coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces for 2024. Driving the surge in enrollment has been the continuation of more generous federal subsidies that date to the coronavirus pandemic.

Persons: Carley Calvi, “, ”, Biden Locations: Milwaukee, Calvi

Price was right, the 31-year-old Californian this week became the first female American driver and third woman ever to win a Dakar stage. Yes, Price also became the first American woman to earn a stage win in the race more commonly known as Rallye Du Maroc. For nearly three decades, outspoken Saudi women and the men who supported them had called for women to have the right to drive. “The parts I’ve been in Saudi Arabia, I haven’t ever felt uncomfortable,” she said. Originally a circuit from Paris to Dakar, Senegal, the race has been run across Saudi Arabia since 2020.

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☆ Here's how the American Red Cross makes money from donated blood
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Juhohn Lee | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The American Red Cross has long been recognized as the universal symbol of humanitarian services —and it's an expensive operation. "When the White House starts raising money, when the big corporations, the NFL, Hollywood A-listers are raising money for the aftermath of a disaster, it's most likely targeted toward the American Red Cross." When CNBC inquired about the pricing of these products, the American Red Cross responded that "prices for a unit of red blood cells is proprietary information. A majority of the American Red Cross' operating expenses, just over $2 billion, is also spent on collecting blood, according to its financial statements. Watch the video above to see how the American Red Cross makes and spends its billions.

Persons: Jake Johnston, Laurie Styron, Michael Thatcher Organizations: Center for Economic, White House, NFL, Hollywood, CNBC, Cross, Navigator

From there, the carbon can either be moved directly to permanent underground storage or it can be used in another industrial purpose first, variations that are respectively called carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). Another form of carbon capture is direct air capture (DAC), in which carbon emissions are captured from the air. REUTERS/David Stanway/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOne stumbling block to rapid deployment of carbon capture technology is cost. Countries including the U.S. have rolled out public subsidies for carbon capture projects. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, offers a $50 tax credit per metric ton of carbon captured for CCUS and $85 per metric ton captured for CCS, and $180 per metric ton captured through DAC.

Persons: David Stanway, Benjamin Longstreth, Petra Nova, Simone Stewart, Stewart, Leah Douglas, Marguerita Choy Organizations: 28th United, United, United Arab Emirates, CCS, Global CCS Institute, Drillers, International Energy Agency, REUTERS, U.S, CCUS, DAC, Task Force, U.S . Department of Energy, Navigator, U.S ., National Wildlife Federation, Thomson Locations: 28th United Nations, United Arab, U.S, Norway, Iceland, China, Canada, Qatar, Australia, Texas, Louisiana, Wuhu, Anhui province, North America, East Africa, U.S . Midwest

NEW YORK (AP) — When families thank Marlo Thomas for the medical treatment they received at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, she kindly corrects them. “And we’ve kept it.”Political Cartoons View All 1260 ImagesAccording to Fidelity Charitable’s annual ranking of the most popular nonprofits supported by its donor-advised funds, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ranks No. Nonprofit ratings organization Charity Navigator says St. Jude ranks third among its most-followed charities, behind Doctors Without Borders and the American Red Cross. In the U.S., the survival rate for childhood cancer is now 80%, up from 20% when St. Jude first opened its doors. Russian bombings during the war made it impossible for the children to continue their cancer treatment at hospitals in Ukraine.

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Biden sought to kickstart SAF production with a $1.25 per gallon production tax credit in the IRA. To be eligible for the credit, SAF producers must demonstrate their fuel is 50% lower in emissions than conventional jet fuel. The DOE spokesperson confirmed that ethanol producers must cut emissions of they want a long-term role in SAF production. Still, ethanol producers need carbon pipelines because many ethanol plants are not near geologically appropriate underground storage sites. Other options for reducing ethanol's carbon intensity include using renewable energy at ethanol plants, or climate-friendly farming practices for corn.

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☆ Amazon adds a new reason to get and keep Prime: member discounts on health-care services
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon (AMZN) said on Wednesday that it's offering Prime members a discount on its new health-care service — another perk that should help bring more people into the online retailer's ecosystem. It provides members unlimited 24/7 access to virtual care as well as in-person, and remote primary care services. Prime members can add up to five people from their family to the One Medical plan for an additional $6 a month. Amazon offering a discounted subscription to One Medical's services is part of the company's efforts to expand the broader Prime flywheel by leveraging its 167 million Prime members. The goal of the Amazon Prime membership is to provide people with "one simple membership, something that provides shopping, savings, streaming and now positive health outcomes, said Jamil Ghani, SVP of Amazon Prime in a CNBC interview Wednesday.

Persons: Jeff Marks, It's, Tom Forte, Forte, Andy Jassy, Davidson, there's, Jamil Ghani, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, John Love, Jason Redmond Organizations: Amazon, D.A, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Pharmacy, Amazon Prime, CNBC, Robotics Research, AFP, Getty Locations: Davidson, Sumner , Washington

Ford envisions at least three new electric vehicles that will preserve jobs at several factories. Those and other closely held production plans by Detroit's automakers have emerged in details of the tentative contract agreements that ended the six-week strikes by the United Auto Workers union. The UAW's success in gaining commitments from the companies to build new electric vehicles at several factories represented a particular achievement. The automakers have all embraced the transition to electric vehicles as a large-scale and long-term commitment. And not all the companies’ production plans under the contract, of course, involve electric vehicles.

Persons: —, Biden, What's, Ford, Stellantis, ___ Veiga Organizations: DETROIT, Ford, General Motors, Detroit's automakers, United Auto Workers, Workers, EVs, EV, Dodge, Jeep, Cherokee, UAW, Kentucky, Plant, Expedition, Lincoln Navigator, Lincoln, Ohio Assembly Plant, Hill Assembly, Honda, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra, Fairfax Assembly Plant, GM, Detroit automakers, Toyota Tacoma Locations: Belvidere , Illinois, Toledo, Warren , Michigan, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Detroit, Dodge Durango, Rouge, Dearborn , Michigan, Louisville, Cleveland, Rock , Michigan, Hill, Hill Assembly Plant, Tennessee, Orion Township , Michigan, Fairfax, Kansas City , Kansas, Lansing , Michigan, Los Angeles

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