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“As countries grew richer over the mid-1900s, average working hours decreased and leisure increased.

“A piece of property abandoned, weeds grow up, a window is smashed.”

Let’s take a closer look at rising food prices – as always, it is complicated.

About six or seven billion years ago, a massive star exploded, and its debris, containing (among other things) traces of gold, mercury, lead, and uranium, slammed into a cloud of gas and dust floating on the outskirts of the galaxy.

“Scientists at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna found that bacteria living inside a cow’s rumen – one of the four compartments of its stomach – can digest certain plastics, including those used to make

There is an ongoing concern about Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon’s control of our day-to-day lives. The government appears to be moving to address the issue through anti-monopoly rules that are a century old.

The researchers, reporting in PLOS One, set out looking at “honorific” street names – when a street maintains its positional name, like 161st Street and River Avenue, and gains another name, Mariano Rivera Avenue, in their honor.

“As of this past April, under a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act, health care providers are required to give all their patients electronic access to most kinds of medical notes.

“To harness this untapped power of subtraction in the future, we need to understand why we haven’t embraced it in the past.