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☆ What Was the True Cost of Italy's $1 Home Scheme?
  + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Imagine paying as little as 1 euro for a home. That's what happened in Italy a few years ago. The plan was to inject life and money back into dying towns. But for many foreign buyers, it wasn't smooth sailing. We traveled to Sicily to find out how much buyers actually ended up spending.
Locations: Italy, Sicily
☆ How Dogs Are Trained to Attack US Prisoners
  + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Hannah Beckler | Olivia Nemec | Robert Leslie | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Patrol dogs are being used to attack prisoners in the US, leaving some scarred for life. Exclusive reporting from Insider reveals that the same people who introduced dog programs at several US prisons went on to advise at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Persons: Abu Locations: Iraq
☆ The true cost of Mexico's Maya Train
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Noah Lewis | Robert Leslie | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Mexico is rushing to complete a new train line around the Yucatan Peninsula that will link tourist resorts with cities and famous Maya sites. But large areas of tropical forest have been cut down, and activists say a unique network of sinkholes called cenotes are also at risk.
☆ Why Hooters Air, Pan Am, and the Concorde all disappeared from the skies
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Pan Am was an icon of early travel that no longer exists, and even Hooters had its own airline. Meanwhile, the Concorde was an engineering marvel that wowed passengers, but it no longer flies. Did you know that the restaurant chain Hooters once had its own airline, where the wait staff got a chance to work at 32,000 feet? Getting a new airline off the ground can be the easy part, but many struggle to stay above the competition. America's premier airline boasted the first ever scheduled international flight and became an icon of early air travel.
☆ Filling Cambodian lakes with sand creates pricey new land. It also displaces families.
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Katie Nixdorf | Noah Lewis | Andy Ball | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Sand is the most exploited natural resource on Earth, after water. The Cambodian government is using sand dredged from the Mekong to fill in lakes around Phnom Penh. One community is fighting to save their homes on the city's largest natural lake. In Cambodia, the government is using sand to fill in lakes around its capital, Phnom Penh, to create prime real estate for villas and shopping malls. Now, one community is fighting to save their homes on the city's largest natural lake.
☆ Meet the Amazon warehouse workers paying the price for fast, free shipping
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Katie Nixdorf | Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
The serious injury rate at Amazon warehouses was double that of other distribution centers in 2021. Workers suffer musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs, which are caused by repetitive movements. Amazon spent $300 million on safety initiatives to try and become "Earth's safest place to work." Loading Something is loading. We accessed rare video footage from inside one of the most dangerous Amazon warehouses in the US and spoke to former employees to understand the true cost of Amazon's push for speed.
☆ How anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers target women looking for abortions
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Katie Nixdorf | Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
There are more than three crisis pregnancy centers for every abortion clinic in the US. CPCs don't offer abortions, but many show up in searches related to abortion services. Doctors say these centers cause confusion and elevate people's mistrust of the medical system. Anti-abortion activists say these centers will help women facing unplanned pregnancies in places where abortion is now illegal. But some women who have visited a CPC thinking it was an abortion clinic say they feel misled by the center's online advertising.
☆ Meet the Republicans who are Trump's likely successors
  + stars: | 2022-06-07 | by ( Olivia Nemec | Noah Lewis | Tyler Merkel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
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