Dr Rachel Clarke never dreamed that in her medical career, she would say out loud that hospitals in Britain are running out of oxygen. Yet some hospitals in the U.K. are now in that critical situation, as doctors say the U.K.’s third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is pushing the country’s National Health Service to its limits. “We’re seeing younger patients, we’r…
Read moreIf you ever find yourself at the San Jose airport hailing a cab to take you into San Francisco, prepare for your own little bit of hell. The ride will take about an hour and 40 minutes—assuming average traffic—and set you back $110 or more (not including tip). The good news is that Uber plans to fix that—slashing the time to 15 minutes and the cost to $20. The wrinkle is that …
Read moreWhen Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans in early September, Tonya Freeman-Brown made the difficult decision to stay in the city. The 53 year-old and her family sheltered in an old brick hotel in the downtown area, watching fierce winds of up to 150 mph pelt rainwater at the windows, and remembering the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, 16 years earlier to the day. It was stressful, but Freem…
Read moreEvery day dozens of people come to Jennifer Witherspoon—a former dental office manager with zero medical training—for help managing nausea, headaches, and other side effects that can come with taking weight-loss shots. She even crafted a template response to help her quickly get through the messages.
“People have offered to pay me, begged me to start a podcast, asked me to call the…
Read moreThere’s a very good reason NASA planners chose Mars’s Gale Crater as the landing site for the Curiosity Rover when it touched down on the Red Planet in the summer of 2012. Gale Crater was once Gale Lake, a brimming body of water that could have given rise to microbial life in the first billion years of Martian history, before the planet lost most of its atmosphere and water to space…
Read morePeople are becoming increasingly worried about how they’ll be impacted when rising seas swallow up coastal properties. For starters, there are the homeowners who live on the threatened land. And then there are the mortgage lenders and home insurers who have a financial stake in those properties. But indirectly, anyone who relies on public education, fire departments, and other municipal s…
Read moreThe business has planted its own crop in Pakistan, which it plans to harvest in the first half of next year, Boohoo chief executive John Lyttle told the Daily Telegraph.Its first crop will yield about 2,000 tons, which will go into Boohoo’s supply chain and be used to create “millions” of garments for its leisurewear and denim ranges, he said.
The company said the move will allow …
Read moreEnvironmental charity Hubbub said a survey has shown that people will spend on average almost £74 each on partywear, but a fifth of people say they don’t wear the same outfit to more than one party or event. That may not have seemed anything to worry about a few years ago and in fact it might have been celebrated in boardrooms worldwide until relatively recently. But in the current business e…
Read moreDerived from a 40-page analysis conducted by Italy’s Bocconi University, it is evident that sales from the EU4 group (comprising France, Germany, Italy, and Spain) to Chinese consumers experienced a 40.2% uptick between 2019 and 2022. This growth surpasses the 33% upswing observed across the entirety of the 27-member EU, amounting to €32.3 billion. Notably, sales within the EU4 landscape are …
Read moreGrasse’s new zoning plan, approved last week, reclassified 21% of municipal land into farmland, compared to 4% beforehand; building development rights were frozen and natural areas were reclassified, Grasse Deputy General Manager of Urban Planning Nathalie Campana told AFP.The total extent of farmland grew from 178 to 928 hectares, of which 70 have already been ring-fenced for the cultivation…
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