John Harrington - Writer for 24/7 Wall St.
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Cancer was the second-leading cause of death, after heart disease, in the United States in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 602,350 cancer fatalities in...
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The world’s population continues to grow and stands at 7.93 billion people as of March 21. The annual number of births outstrips the yearly death total by almost 18 million people. The population...
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Few things have captured the American imagination like the open road and a cool car to drive on it. This love affair with high-performance motor vehicles has often been immortalized on TV or in film....
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Foreign direct investment is a cross-border investment in which a resident or company of one country has significant control or influence over the management of an enterprise in another country....
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Merriam-Webster defines “decompose” as “to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds.” That happens to all living things after they pass on. But what about...
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Ever since Jackie Gleason’s Joe the Bartender character struck up a conversation with the unseen customer Mr. Dennehy on “The Jackie Gleason Show” in the 1950s, bars have been an essential...
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The 94th Academy Awards will be held on March 27 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and this year one film has a chance to make history. That would be “The Power of the Dog,” which has been...
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More than 100 years ago, the motion-picture industry decamped to California from the East Coast to work in better weather, escape the monopoly imposed by Thomas Edison, and film at lower production...
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Women comprise almost 60% of U.S. college enrollment, according to spring 2021 estimates from the nonprofit organization the National Student Clearinghouse. The Chronicle of Higher Education, on the...
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Fame can be a double-edged sword for those in the entertainment world. The attention, the glamor, and the adulation are great, but the pressure of staying on top is enormous. And it weighs even more...
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The United States, the third-largest nation in the world by land and water, is divided into six time zones: Hawaii-Aleutian Time, Alaska Time, Pacific Time, Mountain Time, Central Time, and Eastern...
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The great and ever-quotable Yankee legend Yogi Berra was on to something when he said, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” When it comes to sports, no truer words were ever spoken. Great...
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More than 32 million people in the U.S. – about one in 10 – claim some kind of Irish ancestry, according to the U.S. Census. In 31 states, Irish is ranked within the top three ancestry groups...
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An epidemic is ravaging every community in the United States, and it isn’t a virus brought to these shores from another country. That epidemic is the disease of fatal overdoses by illicit drugs and...
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Now that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is subsiding and spring is beckoning, people are feeling more confident about attending shows and concerts. Long-planned tours that were delayed because of...
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