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Emailing Your College Professor: Do's and Don'ts | Education

Emailing Your College Professor: Do’s and Don’ts | Education

Most college students do the bulk of their electronic communication via text messaging. But they may need to send emails when contacting professors. Texting is casual: A student may not think twice about abbreviating long words or swapping punctuation marks for emojis when composing a message. But standards for emailing are different, especially in academic settings. Students’ emails can…

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Five Chinese Companies Say They Plan to Delist From the New York Stock Exchange

Five Chinese Companies Say They Plan to Delist From the New York Stock Exchange

Five Chinese state-owned companies said they intend to delist their American depositary shares from the New York Stock Exchange, as financial regulators in Beijing and Washington remain at loggerheads over U.S. audit requirements. The companies pointed to limited trading volumes of their U.S. securities, and the administrative burden and costs of maintaining their New York listings. They said…

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CEOs are cashing in on the market boom

CEOs are cashing in on the market boom

CEOs are using the market boom to quietly cash in their own chips. Insiders at US companies have dumped $5.7 billion of stock this month, the highest in any September over the past decade, according to an analysis of regulatory filings by TrimTabs Investment Research. It’s not a new trend. Insiders, which include corporate officers and directors, sold shares in August at the fastest pace in 10…

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'Shantaram,' Gandhi's Assassin: The Many Faces of Shubham Saraf

‘Shantaram,’ Gandhi’s Assassin: The Many Faces of Shubham Saraf

During his eclectic career so far British actor Shubham Saraf has played a variety of roles. Saraf, who studied at the U.K.’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama and France’s École Philippe Gaulier, played an aristocrat in newly independent India in Mira Nair’s BBC/Netflix series “A Suitable Boy”; a policeman in Netflix procedural “Criminal: U.K.” and a PR advisor in Jed Mercurio’s BBC series…

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Why humans have more voice control than any other primates

Why humans have more voice control than any other primates

A crying baby, a screaming adult, a teenager whose voice cracks — people could have sounded this shrill all the time, a new study suggests, if not for a crucial step in human evolution.   It’s what we’re missing that makes the difference. Humans have vocal cords, muscles in our larynx, or voice box, that vibrate to produce sound (SN: 11/18/15). But unlike all other studied primates, humans don’t…

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Beto O’Rourke rips Uvalde heckler: “It may be funny to you, motherf**ker, but it isn’t funny to me”

Beto O’Rourke rips Uvalde heckler: “It may be funny to you, motherf**ker, but it isn’t funny to me”

In Texas — a state known for its obsession with guns — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke has been campaigning on moderate gun control, stressing that while he isn’t anti-2nd Amendment, there is no reason why Texans should have easy access to semiautomatic weapons like the one used in the Uvalde massacre. The former congressman laid out his arguments for stricter control of…

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Reporter's Notebook: On a roll or getting rolled?

Reporter’s Notebook: On a roll or getting rolled?

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrats may rue the day they titled the Inflation Reduction Act the Inflation Reduction Act. The massive spending package addresses a host of issues. Health care. Environmental policy. Taxation. Spending. Democrats elected to advance the package under special budget reconciliation rules. That means the bill must be budget neutral. Democrats contend…

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“Relentless pace”: Republicans’ bad week gets worse as FBI drops subpoenas on Pennsylvania GOP

“Relentless pace”: Republicans’ bad week gets worse as FBI drops subpoenas on Pennsylvania GOP

The FBI served subpoenas to “several” Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers this week as part of the federal investigation into the pro-Trump fake elector plot, according to PennLive. While news of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago has dominated the news cycle, the FBI this week also seized Rep. Scott Perry’s, R-Pa., cellphone and delivered subpoenas or paid visits to multiple state House and Senate offices…

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Trader Joe’s Workers Unionize In Historic Vote In Massachusetts

Trader Joe’s Workers Unionize In Historic Vote In Massachusetts

Workers at a Trader Joe’s in Massachusetts have formed the grocer’s very first union, adding another historic win to a string of recent victories for organized labor. Employees at the chain’s store in Hadley, north of Springfield, voted 45 to 31 in favor of joining the new group Trader Joe’s United, according to a vote count broadcast online Thursday by the National Labor Relations Board. The…

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Pelosi: ‘I don’t remember’ military opposing Taiwan trip

Pelosi: ‘I don’t remember’ military opposing Taiwan trip

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New North Korea Talks Bring Skepticism and Hope

New North Korea Talks Bring Skepticism and Hope

The temporary thaw in tensions with North Korea during the Olympics has been extended for at least six weeks. With a summit meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un planned for late April, and an offer of U.S.-North Korea talks on the table, there is now a genuine opportunity for progress. But if it feels like the North Korea issue has been a…

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To have illness anxiety in 2022

To have illness anxiety in 2022

Fever, chills, bumps, rashes, sore throat, sniffles, headache, oh my – could having any of these symptoms mean you might be seriously ill? In the age of COVID-19, and now monkeypox, experts have seen a rise in people experiencing anxious feelings about their health. Social media and the internet – and therefore self-consulted medical advice – exacerbate these worries. While worrying about your…

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Cognitive fatigue from work impairs decision-making: How to fight it

Cognitive fatigue from work impairs decision-making: How to fight it

“Influential theories suggested that fatigue is a sort of illusion cooked up by the brain to make us stop whatever we are doing and turn to a more gratifying activity,” said study author Mathias Pessiglione, Inserm research director at the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris, in a news release. “Our findings show that cognitive work results in a true functional alteration — accumulation of noxious…

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Browns fans lament lackluster season ticket holder gift boxes

Browns fans lament lackluster season ticket holder gift boxes

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cleveland Browns fans took to social media this week to share their frustrations over the team’s lackluster presentation of their season tickets.  As the Browns prepared for their preseason opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Friday night, fans flocked to Twitter to share the gifts they received from the team for being season ticket…

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Republican war on books: They don't just want to control your body — next up, your mind

Republican war on books: They don’t just want to control your body — next up, your mind

Once Republicans started to falsely accuse educators and librarians of “grooming” children for sexual abuse, it was just a matter of time before the talk of imprisoning them began. Sure enough, in a clip collected by Tennessee Holler, a recently-elected district attorney in Hamilton County, Tennessee, did just that during a meet-and-greet between her, the pro-censorship group Moms for Liberty…

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House passes Inflation Reduction Act

House passes Inflation Reduction Act

Without the support of a single Republican, Democrats in the U.S. House on Friday gave final passage to a $740 billion piece of legislation that includes historic investments in renewable energy development, a minimum tax on large corporations, and a landmark requirement for Medicare to directly negotiate the prices of a subset of prescription drugs. Democratic proponents of the bill and outside…

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How Chris Christie's 2016 "lock her up" speech fueled Trump's rise — and brought us here

How Chris Christie’s 2016 “lock her up” speech fueled Trump’s rise — and brought us here

Of course, in the midst of the late Friday afternoon media feeding frenzy over the release of the Justice Department search warrant and inventory of what was taken by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump issued a statement claiming “it was all declassified.” According to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, the classified treasure trove removed from Trump’s Florida manse on Monday…