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Small Donations Aiming to Make a Huge Splash
Brett Howell, program manager at Coca-Cola in Atlanta, found a way to use his small family trust to solve big-impact environmental problems.He was one of the leaders of a 2019 project to clean up Henderson Island, an atoll in the South…
Jeannie Morris, Trailblazing Chicago Sportscaster, Dies at 85
The marriage ended in divorce, and in 1960 she married Johnny Morris, a broad recipient for the Chicago Bears whom she had also met on the Santa Barbara campus.Ms. Morris' first sports break came after her husband retired from the bears in…
Nancye Radmin, Pioneer of Plus-Dimension Style, Is Lifeless at 82
Nancye Radmin, a plus-size fashion pioneer who ran an upscale chain of stores for two decades, the Forgotten Woman who served a group of women otherwise overlooked by high fashion, died at her home on December 8th in Lakeland She was 82…
‘Field’ or Gem? A Scramble to Save Asia’s Modernist Buildings
HONG KONG - When the General Post Office opened on the Hong Kong coastline in 1976, a local newspaper predicted that the modernist-style building "would certainly be as iconic" as its Victorian predecessor.Not quite.The building, with its…
Historical past of Tiki Bars and Cultural Appropriation
By Sammi Katz and Olivia McGiffIt is an undoubtedly difficult time for the hospitality industry. Every day a different restaurant closes the shutters, another bar pulls its steel gate down for good. Since its invention, a kind of watering…
Minoru Makihara, Who Ran Mitsubishi After It Stumbled, Dies at 90
TOKYO - Minoru Makihara, who led Mitsubishi - then the world's largest company - through the doldrums of Japan's post-bubble era in the 1990s and helped meet the demands of a globalizing economy, died in Tokyo on December 13th. He was 90…
How Mega Hundreds of thousands and Powerball winners can shield their windfall
Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty ImagesMega Millions players can continue daydreaming.With no one getting all six numbers drawn on Friday, the jackpot has risen to an estimated $ 376 million. And Powerball, with the next draw for Saturday…
Market Edges Towards Euphoria, Regardless of Pandemic’s Toll
"It's not as obvious a bubble as it was 20 years ago," said Jay Ritter, a finance professor at the University of Florida who studies IPOs. "But we're close to the bubble area."The market appears to be overheated by another measure that…
Voyager House Holdings takes majority stake in Nanoracks’ XO Markets
Nanoracks Bishop airlock installed on the International Space Station.NASAVoyager Space Holdings' fourth acquisition in just over a year since its inception is a controlling stake in the parent company of Nanoracks, a space services and…
Sailors Stranded for Months as China Refuses to Let Coal Ships Unload
Jag Anand is owned by an Indian company, Great Eastern Shipping. While Great Eastern Shipping kept the crew busy, it said it could not unilaterally leave the ship because the ship was chartered to another company, Cargill, based in…