Month: March 2022

When I first read “Girl”—Jamaica Kincaid’s well-anthologized short story featuring a mother instructing her young daughter how to behave and carry herself—I heard my own mother’s voice saying, “If you can’t cook, your husband will send you back, you know.” My mother said it from time to time, exhorting the young girls in her care—her
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Block co-founder Jim McKelvey. CNBC | NBC Universal | Getty Images BARCELONA — In 2014, Amazon launched a product that sounded strikingly similar to something already on offer from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square, which is today known as Block. It was called Amazon Register, and it would let small businesses accept credit
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New study provides insight into how solar wind is generated and accelerated. (Courtesy: NASA/Johns Hopkin APL/Steve Gribben) A close analysis of data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has revealed that electromagnetic “whistler waves” – so named because early radio operators mistook these eerie, descending sounds for a person whistling – are unexpectedly absent from certain
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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration announced a new task force Wednesday that will enforce sweeping U.S. and allied sanctions imposed on Russian officials and oligarchs that have helped finance President Vladimir Putin‘s unprovoked war in Ukraine. The new task force, comprised of interagency law enforcement officers from the FBI, Marshals Service, IRS, Postal Inspection, Homeland
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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson looks on during a meeting with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumeron March 02, 2022 in Washington, DC. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Senate Judiciary Committee will question President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, over two days in late March, committee Chair Dick Durbin,
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The Day She Ditched Them at the Beach Brendan Mathews Brendan Mathews is the author of the novel The World of Tomorrow and the short story collection This Is Not a Love Song. Share article Maniacs The cousins are supposed to spend the day at the lake. Summer vacation, 1980, and the radio is saying
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Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti / Unsplash In Winter Lights, rising star Irati Elorrieta’s first novel, Añes is a Basque woman who has immigrated to Berlin by way of Paris. Her story explores the contradictions of pulling up roots and embarking on a new life: melancholy and freedom, detachment and memory, alienation and independence. The following
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A summer wheat harvest in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. Vincent Mundy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wheat futures reached new multiyear highs Wednesday, as war between major exporters Russia and Ukraine continued to raise concerns about the global supply of the commodity. The moves in the commodity market come amid reports that
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In the wake of Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home rattling box office records, and creating a gravitational pull toward cinemas with a $1.85 billion global gross, Warner Bros.’ The Batman is looking to keep this big screen rally going. Industry projections for the Robert Pattinson movie stand at $115M-$125M domestic, and another $110M-$120M overseas for a global reach
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