Crashing is becoming a bad habit for defending Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas. After hitting the ground twice over the past two weeks, the Welshman fell off his bike one more time on Tuesday as a heat wave engulfed the race ahead of grueling days in the Alps when the Tour will reach its […]
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Etymology of a Term As a term, the “glass ceiling” dates to around 1978, when it was discussed by female workers at Hewlett-Packard and used onstage at a panel discussion about women’s aspirations by an employee of the New York Telephone Co. Each used it to describe the inability of white-collar women to rise beyond
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Four months after the country’s largest auto dealership chain named a new chief executive to replace its longtime CEO, it’s making another change at the top. Chief Financial Officer Cheryl Miller is the new CEO at AutoNation, replacing Carl Liebert, who came to the company from the USAA financial services firm in March. Executive Chairman
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HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. As if your summer calendar wasn’t already full of barbecues and birthday parties, there’s one more celebration worth noting. Zappos is celebrating its 20th birthday, and is marking the occasion with a massive sale on top-selling shoes from sneakers to sandals to
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Image copyright Getty Images A Chewbacca mask worn by Lewis Capaldi has sold for more than £7,000 at an online auction. The singer made his entrance wearing it at TRNSMT in Glasgow earlier this month. It’s after Noel Gallagher had suggested he looked like the Star Wars character. Then someone working at the festival put
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In 1991, as the Soviet Union collapsed around him, Alexander Mishakov was summoned to a place that was off-limits to most citizens — the Metropol Hotel. Newly graduated from a technical institute, the 24-year-old had scored an interview for a breakfast chef position. Catching the first morning train into central Moscow, he walked through the
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Sailing across the cosmos is finally becoming a reality. For centuries, it has been a dream: traveling through space powered only by the solar wind. It was first imagined in the 1600s by Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer. Centuries later, Arthur C. Clarke moved it into the realm of science fiction in “Sunjammer,” a 1964
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Andrew Landry hit the opening tee shot at the Masters. Shane Lowry hit the final shot at the British Open. All in 102 days. The new major championship season in golf — one a month starting with the Masters in April — could take time before players can adjust. And that was just the start.
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Al Franken is back in the news more than 18 months after he resigned from the Senate following a half-dozen allegations of sexual misconduct. And that means that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, his onetime friend who was the first Democratic colleague to call for him to step down, is back in the news too. The two
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A woman who underwent a double mastectomy after doctors wrongly diagnosed her with an aggressive form of cancer has said the trauma will remain with her. Sarah Boyle, 28, had chemotherapy and later needed reconstructive surgery before the mistake was noticed. She told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she had been left with post-traumatic stress disorder
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