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The scary waste of Halloween pumpkins
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The scary waste of Halloween pumpkins chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-10-25 Halloween is a time for costumes and scares. But here's a ghoulish fact: 8 million pumpkins are thrown...
A Chinese class in Chicago high school
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A Chinese class in Chicago high school By Xu Jing, Wan Fang and Yang Haiyun in Chicago | Xinhua | China Daily, Updated: 2019-10-12 Standing in front of the blackboard, Christina Xu announced the...
Can Steven Spielberg help sell iPhones? Apple is betting on it.
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By Dylan Byers When Tim Cook unveils Apple's new streaming service on Monday, the iPhone maker will join a growing field of media, tech and telecom companies that are vying for Hollywood's top...
SPACE How to see the 'super worm equinox moon,' the last supermoon of 2019
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By Denise Chow Get ready, skywatchers. The last supermoon of 2019 will be visible in the night sky Wednesday, coinciding with the spring equinox that heralds the start of a new season....
The history — and psychology — behind the tax refund
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As McAuliffe is constantly telling his clients, and anyone else who’ll listen: a refund is just money you overpaid in taxes. It is an interest-free loan to the government — one you can avoid by...
Proof that scientists can have a sense of humor
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This is an excerpt from a paper recently published in Nature. This article is 100% legitimate, and is entitled "Methylation-based enrichment facilitates low-cost, noninvasive genomic scale...
Woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race
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Ginger Eason told WSOCTV , a local news station in Charlotte, that Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr. paid her between $75 and $100 to pick up completed absentee ballots for North Carolina's 9th...
In a Rare Move, South Park Admits It Was Wrong About Climate Change
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In the months after Al Gore released his apolitical, urgent documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which outlined the looming horrors of climate change, some audiences were quick to laugh him off as...
The Suspected Bomber's Van Needs to Be Seen to Be Believed
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After federal authorities on Friday arrested 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc in connection with the explosive devices that were sent to nearly a dozen public officials and critics of President Donald...