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☆ Can You Tell a Country by Its Corner Kicks?
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Rory Smith | Allison Mccann | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +11 min
Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Reid can, sometimes, tell where a team is from just from the way it attacks or defends its corner kicks.
☆ Porsche just turned its iconic Porsche 911 sports car into a jacked-up off-road beast
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
But if you want to take a 911 sports car off-road, Porsche has officially unveiled just the car for you. The Porsche 911 Dakar has a top speed of 150 miles an hour. There are two selectable drive modes specifically for off-asphalt use, Rallye Mode and Off-Road Mode. The 911 Dakar rides about two inches higher off the ground than a regular 911 sports car. To save more weight, the 911 Dakar has no backseats, unlike most 911 models, and it has special lightweight glass in the windows.
☆ Women in venture capital are writing the rules of maternity leave and bending the male-dominated culture to their will
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Melia Russell | Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
And with more women entering the male-dominated venture industry, firms are being forced to craft maternity leave policies on the fly to accommodate new mothers. Forty years ago, the clubby male world of venture capital admitted so few women that maternity leave as a benefit was effectively nonexistent. "There is no playbook about how to take maternity leave or raise a family while also accelerating your career as an investor." Lux CapitalLike in many male-dominated industries, maternity leave as a benefit for investors doesn't come up in conversation until someone needs it. Though, the best policies, investors said, give women choices about how they operate on leave, rather than prescribing a one-size-fits-all leave.
☆ How Junior's bakes 5 million cheesecakes during a cream cheese shortage
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Korey Isbell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
New York cheesecake institution Junior's has been slinging out towering slices since 1950. But recently, the company has faced skyrocketing ingredient prices and a cream cheese shortage. We visit the Junior's factory to see how its third generation is diversifying to stay afloat amid shrinking margins. But in recent years, the company has faced pandemic closures of its restaurants, skyrocketing ingredient prices, and a cream cheese shortage. We visited Junior's factory to see how its third generation is diversifying to stay afloat amid shrinking margins.
☆ The stock market crash is exposing Wall Street's biggest charlatans
  + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
In a market bubble, it's easy to confuse opportunity for genius. While many of these new investors invested wisely, a pack of them got swept up in a social-media-driven market mania. For the past decade-plus, the stock market loved this. It's really never a good sign when you see celebrities hanging around the stock market, and during the bubble they were everywhere, pumping crypto and investing in SPACs. Good information about the stock market does not come easy, and Gordon Gekko was right to say that if you want a friend on Wall Street, you should buy a dog.
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