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A group of activist investors with a combined 9.5% stake in Kohl’s Corp on Thursday reduced the number of directors it plans to nominate to the department store’s board to five from nine. The group had last month nominated a slate including former executives of Macy’s Inc and Burlington Stores to Kohl’s board, in what […]
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If you’ve got an Alexa device in your home, like an Echo smart speaker, anyone in your home can use it. But there are certain disadvantages to having it associated with only one account. Mainly, it means that everyone is pretty much sharing the same account. You can create what Amazon calls a “household.” That […]
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To make it in any professional sport takes skill, determination, and practice. Having someone who believes in you and goes out of their way to help can be the difference between living the dream or hanging up your skates. Throughout the many years that Graham Nesbitt managed the local skating arena in Seaforth, Ontario, he […]
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Freshman Cameron Thomas scored 27 points in another impressive performance and his LSU teammates provided the rebounding muscle, leading the eighth-seeded Tigers past ninth-seeded St. Bonaventure 76-61 on Saturday and into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. LSU (19-9) can reach its second straight Sweet 16 if it beats Michigan, the […]
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A research breakthrough shows that a simple blood test could reduce, or in some cases replace, the need for intrusive surgery when determining the best course of treatment for patients with a specific type of brain tumor. Researchers at the Brain Tumor Research Center of Excellence at the University of Plymouth have discovered a biomarker […]
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Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc on Thursday said they would share with each other information on drivers and delivery workers they had banned from their platforms for the most serious incidents in an effort to boost safety. The companies said such incidents would be physical assault resulting in a fatality and the most serious […]
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The New York Times Cooking Facebook group will soon no longer bear the name of the publication: the Times has given up on controlling it and is taking its name off the group. According to a note posted in the group (which was then reposted to Twitter), control of the private 77,000-member Facebook group will […]
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Family members became concerned Friday afternoon when the two didn’t check out of their hotel or return their vehicle. The bodies of two hikers were recovered Saturday in Maine’s Acadia National Park by a volunteer search party after the pair were reported missing by relatives, authorities said. The man, 28, and the woman, 30, both […]
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SAN ANTONIO — Teams at the NCAA women’s basketball tournament finally have a weight room. A day after the NCAA was heavily criticized for not having an adequate facility for the women’s teams to lift, the organization created a fully stocked workout room at the convention center near the practice courts. The NCAA had originally […]
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Cutting-edge 3D scanners have been put to the test by researchers from the University of Southampton and partners Exceed Worldwide to help increase the quality and quantity of prosthetics services around the world. The study carried out within the People Powered Prosthetics research group compared plaster-casts and 3D scans for prosthetic limb users in Cambodia […]
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