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Famous People Who Died in December 2021
December2021 Calendar Dec 1 Alvin Lucier, American composer of experimental music (I Am Sitting In A Room; Music On A Long Thin Wire), educator, and music director, dies from complications of a fall at 90 Dec 2 American tennis player (US C'ships 1960-61, French C'ships 1960; 18 Grand Slam doubles titles), dies at 85
Dec 3 Claude Humphrey, American Pro Football HOF defensive end (6 × Pro Bowl, 5 × First-team All-Pro Atlanta Falcons; Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 77 Dec 3 Horst Eckel, German soccer wing half (32 caps West Germany, 1954 FIFA World Cup; 1.
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FISCAL: Again, Silver | TIME
“I bought silver Monday. I bought silver Tuesday. I bought silver Wednesday. I bought silver every day this week.” With these solemn words Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week defended himself from the reproaches of the silver world. The reproaches had been leveled at him because the U. S. Treasury had just subjected the silver markets of London, Shanghai, Bombay, Manhattan and Montreal to as pretty a market crash as a speculator could have devised.
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Fresh Air | TIME
Correction Appended: Sept. 20, 2013
It’s 10 A.M. and Dan Carlin is groaning. Stuck in bed with a bad back, he is nonetheless poring over a half-dozen thick volumes sprawled before him. Carlin, 47, is the host of the popular Internet-radio programs Hardcore History and Common Sense. In front of him lies a fraction of the research he’ll eventually use to produce his next four-or five-hour-long audio broadcast, the exact subject of which is a closely guarded secret.
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Google Duo vs. iPhone FaceTime vs. Skype vs. Messenger
August 16, 2016 2:49 PM EDT
Google rolled out its latest app on Tuesday—a video calling service called “Duo.” Strangely enough, it is completely separate from Google’s other communication services including Hangouts, which already supports video calls.
This latest offer from the tech giant is focused on simplicity. The app only supports video calls between two people and does little else. With the market already saturated with similar services, it will be interesting to see whether Google will be able to get this one to stick.
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Guardians of the Galaxy and Lucy: How Women Won Summer Movies
Summer movie season is almost over and women may just have come out ahead this year. At the beginning of the summer, I guessed whethervarious summer movies would be sexist based on their trailers. I was right about many movies: The Other Woman did not pass the Bechdel test and Emily Blunt did have a surprisingly robust role in Edge of Tomorrow. But while studios may have been predictable, audiences did something this summer that I didn’t expect.
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Historical Events in June 2013
Glastonbury Festival
Jun 26 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones, and Mumford and Sons headline; other performers include Elvis Costello, Vampire Weekend, The Lumineers, Billy Bragg, Kenny Rogers, and Rufus Wainwright
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Holiday Shoppers Hitting Pawn Stores in Big Numbers
Mervyn Penrose Rands / Getty ImagesMore Americans are looking for unique gifts at pawn shops for the holidays this year.
It has been a huge year for retail sales so far in the holiday shopping season, with $52 billion spent over Black Friday weekend and another $6 billion spent online during the “Cyber Week” that followed. Here’s one more hot consumer trend, which is unsurprising given the still-shaky state of the economy: More and more shoppers seem to be buying holiday gifts at the pawn store.
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How Our Cells Strategize To Keep Us Alive
Our cells, each composed of 100 trillion atoms made of particles from the Big Bang, are filled with all kinds of structures. These include organelles—little factories like energy-producing mitochondria—and tiny molecular machines like ATP synthase, whose rotor and shaft spin at up to 300 rpm to produce ATP, the molecules that transmit energy in our cells. The interior of our cells are also filled with all kinds of molecules randomly colliding at tremendous speeds.
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How Parkland Has Changed After the Marjory Stoneman Shooting
One month ago, Parkland, Fla., was shattered when a gunman stormed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and murdered 17 students and teachers.
The Valentine’s Day shooting spurred a national debate on gun violence and turned a group of ordinary teenagers into prominent activists. On the day of the massacre, “I was worried about doing an assignment that was due and three tests scheduled,“ recalls 17-year-old student Brandon Abzug. “Now I’m focused on changing the gun laws in the country.
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