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☆ Diplomats Head to Saudi Arabia for New Talks About War in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Vivek Shankar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

By Saturday, the heat had significantly eased and the forecast was for more moderate temperatures in coming days. Mr. Fayyad was displaced with his wife and only daughter from Khan Younis, where they lived and owned a pharmacy. Nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza were forced to flee their homes under Israeli bombardment and military evacuation orders. Parents across the Gaza Strip are relying on water to keep their children cool when it is already not easy to get. He added: “The tent, the heat wave, and the horror of this war are all a nightmare.

Persons: ”, Mohammed Fayyad, Fayyad, Julia, Mr, Khan Younis, Mohammed Abu Hatab, “, Abu Hatab Locations: Gaza, Al

☆ A woman who lives in a 'housetruck' in the woods showed how she washes her hair in the freezing cold — and responded to critics about not using eco-friendly products
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A TikToker who lives in a housetruck in the woods showed viewers how she washes her hair during winter months. Winters are the hardest part about living in a housetruck, Kai told BI — and one struggle in particular riveted viewers recently. AdvertisementBut some people — including one top-voted commenter — criticized her for her use of commercial hair products. While it's not an excuse for using conventional products, Kai told BI her overall lifestyle is "much more eco-friendly than … most other people." Nevertheless, she solicited recommendations for eco-friendly hair products that were affordable and accessible in Canada.

Persons: Garnier, Kai, who's, Winters, commenter —, she's, shea, it's, She's Organizations: Service, BI Locations: British Columbia, TikTok, Canada

☆ Chinese hot pot chain Haidilao puts viral dance on menu
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hong Kong CNN —What is better than a warming meal of hot pot? A catchy dance routine to go with the Chinese cuisine, according to hot pot chain Haidilao. Haidilao, China’s largest hot pot chain, has recently offered a new dance performance as part of the dining experience across its 1,400 branches. It all started with a comment on a local Chinese online forum. And since hot pot is considered a communal experience, the restaurants sometimes offer plush toys as companions for solo diners.

Persons: ”, “, Haidilao, ” Haidilao Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Jimu, CNN, Staff Locations: Hong Kong, Guangxi, Weibo, Britain

If he drowned, it would be important to know why, she said. Test results can take weeks because of a lack of qualified toxicologists, funding and equipment, Dr. Melinek said. If the water was hot but not scalding, she said, it could lead to heat exhaustion and dehydration, which can cause a person to drown. “It’s appropriate for it to take long,” Dr. Melinek said in an interview on Monday. Those tests, he said, can take weeks to complete.

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☆ Woman who burned herself on Dunkin’ coffee settles for $3 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —A Dunkin’ franchisee is paying a woman $3 million to settle a lawsuit involving hot coffee falling on her lap that she alleges caused severe burns and life-altering injuries, according to her lawyers. “America may run on Dunkin’, but our client had to re-learn how to walk due to the severity of her burns,” said Morgan & Morgan attorney Benjamin Welch in a statement. Other lawsuitsThis case echoes the famous McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit several decades ago, in which another woman spilled coffee on her lap and suffered third-degree burns. The coffee was “30 to 40 degrees hotter than coffee served by other companies,” the law museum said. Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan said in a statement that “restaurants still have failed to learn their lesson to prioritize customers’ safety.

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☆ An American Airlines passenger says he got severe injuries after being 'scalded' by hot coffee during a flight, a lawsuit alleges
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Pennsylvania man is suing American Airlines, alleging he was "scalded" by a cup of hot coffee on a flight. The suit says the coffee spilled onto his arm, leaving the man with "severe and permanent injuries." The airline was "careless, reckless and negligent in serving scalding coffee" to the passenger, his suit says. AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen asked for comment on the complaint Monday, an American Airlines spokesperson told Insider that it cannot comment on pending legal matters. American Airlines, according to the lawsuit, was "careless, reckless, and negligent in serving scalding coffee to the plaintiff in an unsafe manner" and for "failing to hire and retain competent personnel and employees."

Persons: —, George Latorre, David Jaroslawicz, Latorre Organizations: American Airlines, Service, Montreal Convention Locations: Pennsylvania, Vietnam, New York City, New York, 33J

☆ McDonald’s once again sued after customer burns herself on hot coffee
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —McDonald’s is being sued over a hot coffee spill, again. Childress also said in the lawsuit that the restaurant employees “refused” to help her, a point that the McDonald’s denied. Third-degree burns are the most severe and penetrate through the entire skin. The coffee was “30 to 40 degrees hotter than coffee served by other companies,” the law museum said. Earlier this year, McDonald’s was found liable in another case involving hot food.

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☆ McDonald's sued for 'severe burns' from spilled hot coffee — again
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Alex Portée | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A San Francisco McDonald's is being sued after a woman in her 80s allegedly sustained "severe burns" from a scalding cup of coffee and was refused help by store employees. Childress alleges that the incident caused her to suffer severe burns, scarring, emotional distress, as well as hospital and medical expenses. Peter Ou, the owner and operator of the San Francisco franchise in question, responded to TODAY.com's request for comment via email. According to NBC News, in 1992, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck sustained third-degree burns when a hot coffee from a New Mexico-based McDonald's spilled onto her lap. In a statement to local outlet SFGate, her lawyer, Dylan Hackett, said the coffee cup had not been "properly" covered and the coffee itself was "scalding."

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☆ Woman sues McDonald's over hot coffee spill nearly thirty years after the original infamous coffee lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Nancy Luna | Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A San Francisco woman is suing McDonald's over a hot coffee that spilled and burned her. The coffee spilled and gave her severe burns in her groin area, the court filing said. The most famous scalding incident came in 1994 when 79-year-old Stella Liebeck sued McDonald's for a hot coffee burn. Liebeck initially received a $2.9 million jury award after receiving third-degree burns from spilled McDonald's coffee. Years later in 2014, a Los Angeles woman sued McDonald's for allegedly serving her a hot coffee drink that badly burned her.

Persons: McDonald's, Mable Childress, San Francisco McDonald's, Childress, Peter Ou, Stella Liebeck, Liebeck Organizations: Service, San Locations: Francisco, Wall, Silicon, San Francisco, Los Angeles

☆ My miserable, euphoric, muddy escape from Burning Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Social media was having a field day turning Burning Man into the epicenter of schadenfreude and misinformation, the few people who managed to connect to the internet reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe reality of Burning Man was not quite so dire. 2023 was my first year at Burning Man. I'd wanted to go to Burning Man for years. Even before the floods, there was an uncomfortable tension to Burning Man.

Persons: Joy, I'd, JULIE JAMMOT, Betty, preemptively, There's, they'd, Twitter, Zeynep Tufekci, Tufekci, I've, Ansel, we'd, Rob Price Organizations: FEMA, National Guard, Social, Getty, New York Times, Rock City, YouTube Locations: Nevada, San Francisco, Silicon, playa, AFP, Somme, Northern Nevada, Rock, American, Ansel Adams, Trail

☆ Rich History, Dizzying Beauty: The Sicilian City Where Aimless Wandering Is the Point
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Tara Isabella Burton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

THE SUN was setting as I made my way past tombs and ruins toward the ancient amphitheater for the night’s performance. By this point, my third day in Sicily, I was prepared to be taken back in time. The show, Euripides’ “Iphigenia in Tauris” was written in the 5th century B.C., roughly when the theater might have been completed. The scalding summertime heat of the Italian island had at last receded and the smell of jasmine and bougainvillea filled the air as I took my seat.

Persons: Euripides ’ “, Tauris ” Locations: Sicily, Tauris

We can hide from the heat in the desert in our air-conditioned homes, ours cooled by a heat pump powered by solar panels. With climate change heightening extreme temperatures, drought, fires and floods, we find ourselves entangled in a cascade of consequences. Further south, out Diné (Navajo) neighbors who have lived with desert heat through the generations are installing solar panels on their homes for greater efficiency, though some have no electricity and running water at all. Many throughout our desert communities are confronting the possibility that this untenable sustained heat and drought will force us to leave. Here in the Castle Valley blast furnace, we are sandwiched between red cliffs and mesas that absorb the heat and radiate it back to us.

Persons: Say’s Organizations: U.S . Department, Reclamation, roosters Locations: Interior’s, Colorado

☆ Scorching summer temperatures could strain the economy even further
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Alicia Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

“The recent heat waves and scorching summer temperatures demonstrate the economic cost of heat stress,” Chris Lafakis, Moody’s Analytics’ director of economic research, wrote in an emailed response to a CNN query. Moody’s Analytics estimates that chronic physical risk from heat stress could reduce worldwide GDP by up to 17.6% by 2100. The losses are steepest in sectors such as agriculture and construction, but no industry or business is immune, she said. “Every summer we have a stretch [of excessively hot weather], where it might last from four days up to a week,” he said. “We have to look at the potential of our business model shifting to a nine-month facility going forward,” she said.

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☆ Why US Treasury Secretary Yellen’s visit to a Beijing restaurant set off a wild mushroom craze
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Maggie Wong | Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Among the dishes the food blogger claimed to have spotted were grilled fish with herbs, stir-fried pickled Yunnan wild greens with potato slices and cold rice noodles. She ordered four portions of jian shou qing (a Yunnan wild mushroom species). But the most heated discussions were focused on the multiple orders of the mushroom dish – jian shou qing. Jian shou qing, Yunnan’s mysterious mushroomsBaskets of jian shou qing mushrooms, foraged from a Yunnan forest. Chieu Luu/CNNThe fact that Yellen and her team visited a Yunnan restaurant shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN — It’s, Janet Yellen, jian shou qing, Yi Zuo Yi Wang, ”, Pan Pan Mao, ” Pan Pan Mao, Yellen, Mark Schiefelbein, Yellen’s, Jian shou qing, Colin Domnauer Jian shou qing, “, Peter Mortimer, Mortimer, Jun Xu, they’re, Luu, Dian Cai –, Ng Mung Lam, Ng, Yellen's, Leisa Tyler, LightRocket Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Weibo, CNN, Kunming Institute of Botany, African, Getty, Botanical Society of, Xinhua, CNN Travel Locations: Hong Kong, Beijing, China, Yunnan, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Weibo, India, Yunnan Province, Botanical Society of Yunnan, China’s, Shenzhen, Chuxiong prefecture, pu’er

☆ How deep is the ocean? Deeper than the highest point on Earth's surface, by more than a mile
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The ocean is significantly deeper than the highest point on Earth's surface. If you took the highest point on land and submerged it, you would still have more than a mile between you and the deepest point in the ocean. The Challenger Deep is the deepest point on Earth. In 1960, oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh descended to the lowest point on Earth, Challenger Deep, at a record 25,979 feet below the surface. Scientists have sent half a dozen unmanned submersibles to explore Challenger Deep including Kaiko, which collected over 350 species on the seafloor between 1995 and 2003.

Persons: Cuvier, Robert Smits, Herbert Nitsch, Nitsch, We've, Ralph White, Mariana Trench, Trench, Jacques Piccard, Don Walsh, Victor Vescovo, Vescovo Organizations: Service, USS Triton Locations: California, Austrian, Mariana, Everest

☆ Larry Summers says the Fed has inflation on the ropes, calls out crypto frauds, and bemoans the debt-ceiling fiasco. Here are the ex-Treasury chief's 12 best quotes from a new interview.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Fed may only have to hike interest rates once more to beat inflation, Larry Summers says. Here are Summers' 12 best quotes, lightly edited for length and clarity:The Fed and interest rates:1. "There's an old political observation: 100% of the people pay rising prices, and only 6% of the people are unemployed. I think there's some logic to that." I don't think the idea of defaulting on the debt associated with spending we've already done should be on the table."

☆ The Masters were caddied by only Black men for nearly 50 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Located just three miles from The Masters venue, the historically Black district lay adjacent to Augusta Country Club. Eventually, many would hop across Rae’s Creek to begin work at Augusta National. A “good bag” at Augusta National would pay up to $5, Maben said, offering $20 for a particularly lucrative day’s labor. The 1983 Masters saw the first White caddies walk the greens at the major, with just 19 Black caddies on the bag, Clayton said. This year, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum will put the legacy of Augusta’s Black caddies – quite literally – center stage.

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☆ Europe Moves to Revive Mining to Cut Reliance on China
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Eric Sylvers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

INSHEIM, Germany—Near the Rhine river in this part of western Germany, little indicates that beneath the picturesque villages, vineyards and rolling hills there lies enough lithium to make millions of batteries for electric vehicles. Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd., an Australian-German mining company, recently began extracting lithium from a mix of scalding water, minerals and metals almost 2 miles underground. The same hot brine has for years powered a geothermal electricity station, which Vulcan bought. The company has big expansion plans in the valley, backed by contracts to supply the auto industry.

☆ Best Chinese food: 32 must-try dishes
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

Dan dan noodlesIt’s nearly impossible to dislike China’s soul-comforting dan dan mian, or dan dan noodles. Dan dan noodles are named after the way they were originally sold more than 100 years ago – on a dan dan, a carrying pole, by street hawkers. Some think dan dan noodles should contain a dry mix of noodles, made with minced meat, chopped scallions, spices, crushed peanuts and various sauces. Others disagree, preferring dan dan noodles in a hot, spicy, salty and nutty broth albeit with similar ingredients. Similar to Hainanese chicken rice, the Wenchang version is often served with yellow chicken fat rice and chicken soup.

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On the agenda today:But first: This week, Insider launched its inaugural Climate Action 30, a prestigious list of leaders working toward climate solutions. Lily Katzman, an associate editor on our Special Projects team, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the project. InsiderWhen we say climate heroes, the usual suspects — think Greta Thunberg and Al Gore — come to mind. That's where Insider's Climate Action 30 comes into play. ReutersDavid Solomon, Goldman Sachs' CEO, moonlights as an electronic-music DJ, playing high-profile gigs like the Lollapalooza music festival and Tomorrowland, a Belgian music festival.

☆ Wall Street's biggest investors fear an economic nightmare is coming. They may be right.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The Federal Reserve — for reasons ranging from a fragile job market to the government's debt — can't aggressively shake higher prices out of the system. So it kept interest rates at 0% to spur financial activity and growth. Chairman Jerome Powell and his band have been raising interest rates fairly quickly, but the main Fed interest rate is still just 2.5%. It's a limbo of stubbornly high inflation and higher interest rates. If Einhorn, Bianchi, and Melosi are right, we could be in economic limbo of stubbornly high inflation and higher interest rates for a while.

☆ A Stovetop Espresso Maker Is the Best Part of My Mornings
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-09 | by ( Justin Pot | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +3 min

That’s never ever going to happen, though, so it’s a good thing I use a moka pot. Specifically, the Cuisinox Roma stainless steel stovetop moka pot, a superior choice that I wish I’d found sooner. Moka pots are easy to use. The Cuisinox Roma is also dishwasher-safe, unlike aluminum moka pots, and induction-compatible. I’ve had my Cuisinox Roma for six years and counting, and no issues so far.

Persons: Justin Pot, That’s, I’d, I’ve, —, Roma Locations: Peace River , Alberta, U.S, Italy, Peace

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