Month: October 2020

A United Airlines airplane takes off at San Francisco International Airport. Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images United Airlines on Wednesday posted a wider-than-expected third quarter loss as the coronavirus pandemic continued to hammer air travel demand, but the carrier trimmed its cash burn. Here’s how United performed compared with what Wall Street
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Virgin Orbit Sir Richard Branson’s small satellite launch specialist Virgin Orbit is looking to bounce back from the failure of its first demonstration launch in May, aiming to fly its next demo mission in December. Virgin Orbit, which uses a modified Boeing 747 aircraft to launch its rockets, diagnosed the failure to a high-pressure fuel
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Courtesy of the designer. Watching the ’40s- and ’50s-inspired looks that floated down the runways this season, I was put in mind of the painters in Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women, whose prim sweaters and pencil skirts concealed a broad hint of subversion. Buttoned-up, cinched silhouettes may have once looked impossibly dull and conservative. In
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Ghost Solicitors Not Allowed Aoko Matsuda Share article Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . “Peony Lanterns”by Aoko Matsuda translated by Polly Barton “Good evening to you, sir!” He’d
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Company Announces Appointments of Former News Corp. Executive Marty Pompadur to Board of Directors and Former President/CEO, DASAN Zhone Solutions Yung Kim and Alan Qiu to Advisory Board Los Angeles, October 13, 2020 – Former News Corp. Executive Marty Pompadur has been appointed to the Board of Directors of FanVestor, a global fintech fan investment and commerce platform, the announcement
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© AuntMinnieEurope.com The French Society of Radiology (SFR) and the country’s national centre for space exploration (CNES) have signed a partnership, details of which were streamed live at the Journées Francophones de Radiologie (JFR) congress on 4 October. The aim is to develop imaging solutions to be sent on space flights and to collaborate on
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Scott Olson | Getty Images U.S. government debt prices were muted Wednesday morning as investors monitored potential stalls on both a federal stimulus package and Covid-19 vaccine and treatment trials. The 10-year Treasury yield traded at 0.712%. The 30-year bond rate dipped to 1.5%. Yields move inversely to prices. Democrats and Republicans remain at odds
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Helene Tursten An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Soho Crime Trans. Marlaine Delargy I first picked up Swedish writer Helene Tursten’s collection of stories for its title and for its length; I was intrigued by the promise of scandalous whimsy and comforted by the accessibility of the short, pocket-sized book. Soon, I found
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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing in Washington, D.C. Erin Scot | Pool | Reuters Health officials have struggled to convey the seriousness of Covid-19 to many Americans. President Trump’s rapid recovery from the disease, while welcome by
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