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The plea is part of a new campaign to encourage would-be whistleblowers to speak up

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Cereal is a staple of the American breakfast table, consumed by millions of people every day and tied, for many, with memories of childhood. So when a story began circulating this week about a disturbing discovery in a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, consumers were horrified.

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“The Body Snatcher” says it’s all about getting the W in “the biggest fight of his career.”

More manufacturers and suppliers are scaling up the use of tracking technology to ensure critical medical shipments arrive on time and intact.

A handful of international shipping and logistics giants have teamed up with venture firm 8VC to invest in a startup that matches freight with trucks.

The confessed Atlanta mass shooter, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s office, described his targets as “an outlet.” As police put it in a statement, he told them the crimes were “not racially motivated,” that he “blames the massage parlors for providing an outlet for his addiction to sex.”

It should be clear by now that the 117th Congress will go down as one of the most consequential Congresses in modern American history. Reasonable people can disagree on precisely why. Some have insisted since the passage of the coronavirus relief package that Congress has already broken the neoliberal economic consensus that has governed American politics for the last 40 years. Others have suggested, wisely, that we’ll have a better idea where things stand two years from now than we do two months in. Читать дальше...

Late Monday, Politico reported that Senator Lisa Murkowski, one of a handful of Republicans in the chamber who can be counted on in close confirmation votes, nixed the Biden administration’s desired nominee for deputy secretary of the Interior Department. The nominee, Elizabeth Klein, the deputy director of the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at the New York University School of Law, was shot down by Murkowski due to Klein’s progressive policy positions on climate and environmental issues... Читать дальше...

“They must be the most contented people in the world.” This is how the 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy introduces the San peoples of the Kalahari Desert, better known as the Bushmen. They eke out a simple living, the narrator explains, digging for roots and tubers, hunting with bows and arrows, and collecting dewdrops from leaves. “For the most part they live in complete isolation, quite unaware that there are other people,” the narrator continues. Thus they remain until a pilot drops a Coke bottle from his plane... Читать дальше...

When Ari Aster’s breakup fantasia Midsommar was first released in 2019, many women I knew cited one of its earliest scenes as a particularly traumatizing moment—namely, a protracted argument between its grieving heroine, Dani, and its deadbeat antihero, Christian, that elegantly depicted the way men are sometimes capable of shifting, quietly and without effort, the dynamics of a couple’s disagreement. Dani, who has been bereaved in unthinkably violent circumstances, has just learned that Christian... Читать дальше...

Politicians can brag all they want. But that won’t win them many political battles.

NEW ORLEANS, LA - MARCH 23: Zion Williamson #1, and Brandon Ingram #14 of the New Orleans Pelicans boxes out against Kyle Kuzma #0 of the Los Angeles Lakers on March 23, 2021 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Photo by Layne Murdoch Jr./NBAE via Getty Images

Another big night for New Orleans’ Dynamic Duo

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Penguins welcome Sabres to Pittsburgh for back-to-back set. Get ready for the game with a fresh helping of Pens Points.

Wyze continues to make advanced products affordable with its first robot vacuum.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano is just the kind of powerful, light, and long-lasting laptop you’ll want to take with you on post-pandemic business trips—and it’s handy even now just because it’s so easy to take all over the house. It also performs right there in the ballpark with other 11th-gen Tiger Lake competitors, and at a hair under two pounds, it weighs less than almost all of them.

A lot of what we do with computers is repetitive. We put files in folders, we send form replies to emails, we make commits to git when we save files, we trigger tests when we build an application. Events trigger events, on down a predictable chain. It’s often the scaffolding around the work we’re actually doing, making reports and updating colleagues on progress.

Novice data scientists sometimes have the notion that all they need to do is to find the right model for their data and then fit it. Nothing could be farther from the actual practice of data science. In fact, data wrangling (also called data cleansing and data munging) and exploratory data analysis often consume 80% of a data scientist’s time.

Java programming is set to be enhanced with record patterns and array patterns, and pattern matching for switch expressions and statements, although the arrival time of these capabilities remains undetermined.

'World-Splitter' (ALL) Gets Release Date - Trailer

And, which is more difficult for brands, being authentic or conveying authenticity?

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A moderately challenging puzzle.

Henry Chang, the unofficial O.G. of Chinatown, waxes nostalgic for his friend, the famed photographer Corky Lee, and the beauty of the neighborhood’s streets.

Can I at least look cute in the photo that accompanies my stimulus-check fund-raiser?