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U.S. Economy Weaker Than Thought in Year’s First Half, by One Measure
A key measure of U.S. economic output grew more slowly in the first half of the year than previously believed, government data released Thursday ...
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Hospitals in Coastal Cities Risk Flooding Even in ‘Weak’ Hurricanes, Study Finds
In a large proportion of the metropolitan areas along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, at least half of the hospitals are at ...
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Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds
Ten years of data from a nationwide survey of physicians confirm another trend that’s worsened through the pandemic: Burnout rates among doctors ...
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I Escaped Poverty, but Hunger Still Haunts Me
About three months after I was born, my father was incarcerated. As a toddler, I was poor but housed. Mom and I stayed with a paraplegic meth ...
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Don’t Believe Wall Street’s Social Responsibility Hype
Wall Street has been hard at work on a rebrand. Gone is the “Greed is good” swagger that embodied its culture in the 1980s. “Greed and good” may ...
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Dating Is Broken. Going Retro Could Fix It.
Among the traditional rites of an All-American high school experience is the taking — and judging — of yearbook photos, and in this my all-girls ...
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Why Drug Epidemics End
Despite rising overdose deaths, there’s some important good news regarding opioid misuse. Rates of nonmedical use by high school seniors have ...
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Britain’s Gamble on Tax Cuts Has Economists Warning of Past Mistakes
WASHINGTON — A stunning rebuke from the International Monetary Fund this week underscored one of the biggest risks of the new British government ...
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Ron DeSantis’s Race Problem
In July, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida appointed Jeffery Moore, a former tax law specialist with the Florida Department of Revenue, to be a county ...
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Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59
Coolio, the West Coast rapper whose gritty music and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” helped define hip-hop in the 1990s, died on ...