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This is not a scary shark story. At Waihi Beach yesterday, toddlers splashed in the shallows, dads boogie boarded with their kids and stand-up paddle boarders enjoyed glassy seas. There were no circling fins, no lifesavers with megaphones shouting "shark!" and certainly no signs of panic in the...
This weekend, extended unemployment benefits expire for some 1.3 million Americans who are looking for jobs and have already been out of work for more than half a year. It’s typical for these special benefits to expire after recessions. But the question this time is: Is this the appropriate moment...
In a world of shoppers transfixed by computer screens, pawnshops still see demand for their services, particularly from...
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What is the key to making foreign aid more effective and ending extreme poverty? According to Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist known for his work in Haiti, donors fail to adequately invest in improving local systems that ultimately bear the responsibility for implementing national aid....
(Source: Cricket Australia) Stodgy opener hands Aussies the advantage At the risk of incorrectly paraphrasing Benjamin Disraeli and/or Mark Twain, statistics are rather like eyewitnesses. Occasionally they can be handy in explaining a turn of events. More often they veer between unreliable and...
(Source: Cricket Australia) Stoush sends tourists into a tailspin as Aussies close in on victory The violent late afternoon cool change that barged its way into the Melbourne Cricket Ground might have dropped the ambient air temperature by a dozen degrees but it also fanned a spot fire that might...
