"After coding them according to their levels of “facial muscle movement,” they found that American leaders in all contexts were both more likely to smile and showed more “excited” smiles than the Chinese leaders did.Later, they asked college students from 10 different countries how often they would ideally like to experience certain emotions—from happiness to calmness to hostility—in a given wee..."
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"Because ESPN’s linear TV business generates significant ad revenue, the transition to a standalone streaming service carries significant risk, as media analyst Brian Wieser wrote in his Madison and Wall newsletter Wednesday following Disney’s earnings report."
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"Gates has echoed this thinking, saying on his podcast earlier this year: “In my thirties and forties when there would be a conversation about sleep it would be like ‘Oh, I only sleep six hours,’ and the other guy says ‘Oh, I only sleep five,’ then ‘Well, sometimes I don’t sleep at all.’"
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"“Inventory is the most expensive part of any brand or retailer’s balance sheet,” says James Theuerkauf, cofounder and CEO of Syrup Tech, an AI platform aimed at helping companies determine how much inventory they need to have on hand and where they are most likely to sell it."
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"Around 9.30pm, Beasley, who dreams of working in the Met’s dog unit, determined that a friendly seeming XL Bully called Candy did not meet the threshold for being a dangerous dog (following a string of attacks, the breed is about to be banned in Britain)."
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"- EarnBetter, a Lafayette, Calif.-based AI-powered job search assistant that can rewrite resumes, draft cover letters, and find jobs, raised $4.5 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures, and others.- Davinci Micro Fulfillment, a New York City-based provider of e-commerce merchandising and one to two-day parcel delivery services, raised $3 million in seed funding from..."
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"After coding them according to their levels of “facial muscle movement,” they found that American leaders in all contexts were both more likely to smile and showed more “excited” smiles than the Chinese leaders did.Later, they asked college students from 10 different countries how often they would ideally like to experience certain emotions—from happiness to calmness to hostility—in a given wee..."
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"(A paradoxical effect has been observed in people already suffering from depression, in whom scientists have seen that sleep deprivation can temporarily mitigate symptoms: In several experiments, most people with severe depression who stayed up all night got some relief; but this lasted only until they finally did go to sleep—an intriguing phenomenon but not a long-term treatment strategy.)Read..."
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"Because ESPN’s linear TV business generates significant ad revenue, the transition to a standalone streaming service carries significant risk, as media analyst Brian Wieser wrote in his Madison and Wall newsletter Wednesday following Disney’s earnings report."
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"The zoo’s incredibly popular livestream panda-cam is now showing greatest hits panda videos.Subscribe to the new Fortune CEO Weekly Europe newsletter to get corner office insights on the biggest business stories in Europe."
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"He resoundingly lost that argument, in the trial court and on appeal, and it is patently improper for his counsel to keep pushing it.Trump’s shaky defense reflects an admission that he already lost a big portion of the case in September when the judge ruled against him on the first count in the complaint—the question of whether Trump and the other defendants engaged in fraud under New York’s Ex..."
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"Michael Gove, who has served as a cabinet minister under a few recent Tory prime ministers and knows how to tickle an audience, ended a speech on the problem of workplace-diversity programs and the financialization of the housing market by claiming that ARC demonstrated the need to appreciate “what Athens and Jerusalem gave us”—no, not delicious stuffed vine leaves, but a mixture of Promethean ..."
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"“That’s always tricky, you know, if you have a business and now all of the sudden—let’s say 100 percent of the people like you, and now all of the sudden you have 50 percent of the people that love you, but the other 50 percent of the people, it’s less than like.”One thing Ivanka misses about New York, said a source familiar with her thinking, is being in a world where she feels judged by her a..."
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"Now we’re on strike Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers are being overdiagnosed in America The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not n..."
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"“Right now, there’s still a lot of value to be had, especially in markets where institutional players haven’t made their mark yet,” Jabir said, later adding, “You can still buy single family rentals at prices that do yield attractive returns.”This article is part of Fortune’s quarterly investment guide for Q4 2023."
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"Rather, it is an estimate of how much it really costs for a single vehicle to take a trip into the congestion zone—in economists’ terminology, the unpriced externality associated with driving into one of the most financially productive and eternally gridlocked places on Earth.To be clear, Komanoff does not actually think that the state should charge each car, pickup, and box truck $100."
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"October was a whopping 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the previous record for the month in 2019, surprising even Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European climate agency that routinely publishes monthly bulletins observing global surface air and sea temperatures, among other data."
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"“Our pricing reflects the incredible, world-class entertainment experiences we continue to offer our guests, and with our date-based variable pricing model, guests have more flexibility when planning a visitor our destination and can choose the best time to visit that suits their needs,” Universal said in a statement."
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"The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things; how it had been built under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night’s hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent, and terribly angular bed which still formed the principal honour of the sleeping apartments), had been a g..."
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"Still, at a news conference Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell cautioned that any evidence that the economy is running too hot “or that tightness in the labor market is no longer easing” could hinder further progress on inflation and justify additional rate hikes.Subscribe to the CFO Daily newsletter to keep up with the trends, issues, and executives shaping corporate finance."
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