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With a combination of early detection, innovative treatments, and a deep reduction in smоking rates, cancer deaths in the U.S. have declined precipitously in the past 20 years. Between 2001 and...
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The COVID-19 pandemic cut the revenue and profits of several business sectors, especially retail and food service. One industry, however, reported growing revenue during the pandemic – the lobbying...
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Being your own boss can be exhilarating — and risky. An entrepreneur is defined as a solo business owner, which means you reap most of the rewards if successful but shoulder all the downside if...
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With a war raging in Ukraine and political upheavals at home, we tune in nightly to get the latest on what’s happening in our world. Giving us sometimes awful news are TV broadcasters we’ve grown...
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Athletes and anger seem to go together like hammers and nails. The hyper-competitive personalities of sports professionals combined with the insanely intense pressure of competing in high-profile and...
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To be nominated for an Oscar is an honor. But let’s be honest: Winning is a lot more fun and a lot more satisfying. So much goes into making a film, from top-notch acting and script-writing to set...
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“You have to be in it to win it!” Although that phrase could refer to anything in life, it most often applies to a lottery. Americans apparently take that advice very seriously. In 2019, states...
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As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, many Americans struggled to make ends meet without a weekly paycheck after the mass layoffs in the early days of the pandemic. Although expanded unemployment benefits...
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Despite the pandemic in 2020, 237 million people trekked to one of the nation’s more than 400 national park sites, the National Park Service reports. To make that trip, most drove or flew hundreds...
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According to a report by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, the average life expectancy for a person born in the US in 2019 was 78.8 years nationwide. That’s the overall number,...
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“Eat your veggies!” That mantra has been drilled into Americans since childhood, and most of us are following that sound advice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “National...
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No business — or home — can operate today without internet service. Businesses connect with customers over the internet. And when the pandemic shut down schools last year, families realized how...
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Stretching 8,700 miles from north to south, the Americas contain 57 countries and territories. And these countries are as diverse culturally as they are economically. To find the poorest countries in...
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That pessimistic groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter on Feb. 2, so we’ve got plenty of time to break out the blanket and a bowl of popcorn and catch up on some movies we might have missed...
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With theaters, museums, and art galleries on seemingly every corner, major metropolitan areas act like magnets drawing in painters, actors, and musicians with hopes of making it big in the big city....
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