Image copyright Booker Prize If you want to plough through the Booker Prize shortlist before the winner is announced on 14 October, the pile of books in hardback will cost you just under £90. But if you are blind or partially sighted and rely on audiobooks, you will pay around 50% more, in part due […]
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The nation’s top aviation regulator has tested new software for the Boeing 737 Max in a flight simulator and is tentatively giving a favorable review to the updates to a plane that remains grounded after two deadly crashes. The new chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, Stephen Dickson, also toured the Max assembly line near
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SAN FRANCISCO — Even though high-flying start-ups have met a cool reception on Wall Street in recent months, the willingness of investors to make big bets has not exactly slackened. Stripe, a start-up that helps businesses do the wonky work of taking payments, announced on Thursday that it had pulled in new investments that gave
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The echoes have been slumbering at Notre Dame for more than two decades. The Fighting Irish really need to make some new memories. Well, here’s their chance. Again. No. 7 Notre Dame can prove it’s no longer living in the past with a victory Saturday night at third-ranked Georgia, a game that could have ramifications
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“A long time, for sure,” he said, when asked how long his surgery could prolong his life. “Some folks live for a decade or more. A.L.S. is a death sentence, but no one gives you an expiration date. Which is scary.” It was in a villa in Italy, where he and Rachael were on vacation
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A General Motors offer to invest $7 billion in U.S. facilities includes $2 billion from joint ventures and suppliers for new plants that would pay workers less than the top union wage, a person briefed on the matter said. The offer is a major issue that could get in the way of a deal between
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19 Old-School Cool Photos Of Latinx American Couples Through The Years | HuffPost Life Hey there! Got a minute? Tell us what you think of HuffPost. Take the survey Part of HuffPost Relationships. ©2019 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. There’s no bigger treat than flipping through old photo albums and getting to see your parents
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“David After Dentist,” thank you for your service, but Jennifer Garner has emerged as the preeminent post-dentist celebrity personality. The “Alias” alum blessed our timelines on Thursday with a video of her reciting a classic tongue twister after a “small procedure” that apparently required some heavy numbing. Of course, the occasion needed to be captured
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How do you take the measure of a New York City more physically transformed than at any time since the 1920s? The new glass “downtowns” that have exploded in the last decade and a half in Long Island City and over in Jersey City. Hudson Yards’ crystalline shafts to the far west. Residential towers marching
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The Senate’s most vocal critic of the tech industry offered a challenge Thursday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Sell your WhatsApp and Instagram properties to prove you’re serious about protecting data privacy. It may have been more than Zuckerberg expected from his private meeting with Sen. Josh Hawley, a conservative Republican from Missouri, in his
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