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Caribbean real estate dream turns into $100 million nightmare for retirees
By Kenneth R. Harney From Chicago Tribune Ever fantasize about fleeing the winter cold and getting in on the ground floor of a beachfront real estate deal in which you double your money in a few years? If you’ve dreamed that…
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Béziers train poster: French court clears controversial ad
From BBC A French court has ruled that posters showing a woman tied to train tracks did not promote violence against women. The posters were put up around the town of Béziers last December to celebrate the arrival of high-speed…
Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America?
By Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo From TechCrunch Eduardo Gomez started with Bitcoin in 2012, though he didn’t quite understand what he was getting himself into nor how it would change his life. Back in his home country of Venezuela, the struggling computer…
Four reasons that Apple shares have been falling
By Natalie Sherman From BBC Apple was once the, well, apple of Wall Street’s eye. The first US company to achieve a trillion dollar market value, the tech giant boasted trend-setting products, a cash pile larger than the economy of…
Critics of a Student Debt Jubilee are right (and wrong)
By Eric Levitz From New York Mag Imagine that you’ve just been accosted by a street-corner socialist. She presses a pamphlet into your hand and tells you that her movement has a big, bold idea for rectifying the inequities of…
Haiti: Six killed in anti-corruption protests
From Aljazeera Thousands of demonstrators demand trial over alleged misuse of $3.8bn in public funds from Venezuelan oil programme. Six people have been killed and at least five others wounded during anti-corruption protests across Haiti, according to police, as anger…
Kindred’s robots help retailers handle fulfillment centers — and take on Amazon
By Gregg Schoenberg From TechCrunch Since taking the reins as chief executive of Kindred at the beginning of the year, Jim Liefer has been focused on commercializing his company’s autonomous robots. But unlike forward-projecting use cases for robots that may…
Comfort Dogs provide hugs to help Thousand Oaks Heal
By: Laura Goldman From Care2 They provided furry consolation after the shooting massacres in Newtown, Orlando and Las Vegas, and now comfort dogs have flown in from around the country to Thousand Oaks, Calif., to hug people suffering from a…
Dershowitz: Mueller ‘Tried to spring a perjury trap’ on Trump
By Sandy Fitzgerald From Newsmax It was a “very smart decision” for President Donald Trump to answer special counsel Robert Mueller’s questions in writing rather than in person, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday, as the former FBI…
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