Category: Lifestyle
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Wheels of Fortune: Vehicles That Are the Best Investments Today
With those auctions (and several others) now completed, the market is ready for its latest review—and things are looking up. According to leading collectors and experts, the period of doom and gloom appears to be over, assuming you follow some rules and know what to look for. The collector-car world was on edge this summer,…
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Thank you, Mr. Trump for bringing ‘Merry Christmas’ back to the White House
During the first year of the Obama administration — the president and first lady considered removing the Nativity from the White House for the sake of inclusivity. President Trump vowed to put the Christ back into Christmas and based on this video that’s exactly what he did — delivering on a promise to end the ongoing…
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Indians prefer the investment route to a green card
An increasing number of Indians are lining up to spend a million dollars to start a business in the US through a government-sponsored invest and migrate scheme. The EB-5 visa programme is a paid invitation to non-Americans to invest in the US and get a ‘green card’ for the investor and immediate family. There are…
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Clean air target ‘could be met more quickly’
Researchers say government projections of future NO2 are too pessimistic, because they ignore the latest real world data. They say cities may achieve roadside emissions standards several years earlier than ministers expect. The research is published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The authors at the University of York warn that despite the adjustment, the government…
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Introducing the New Titanium and Ceramic White Hawk Collection from Bell & Ross
The Bell & Ross BR-X1 was first released in 2014 in the form of the Skeleton Chronograph, and then a year later the ChronographTourbillon. The X1 range, like the recently issued X2 Tourbillon Micro-Rotor, comes from the “Experimental” line. Bell & Ross takes the familiar square-cased watches from the BR-01 along with the BR-03 from the “Instruments” line, but adds skeltonization, and/or greater…
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The perfect holiday present: a kids’ book that teaches rocket science
To many, rocket science may seem like an impenetrable concept that’s just too difficult to understand, but a new book argues otherwise, aiming to break down the basic concepts behind spaceflight — to children. The new book is appropriately titled Rocket Science, and it was written by Andrew Rader, an aerospace engineer at SpaceX, as well…
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Finally, You Can Have Breakfast at Tiffany
There are certain movie scenes that are so iconic that they still retain their importance in the pop-culture lexicon, even decades later. When Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, stepped out of a yellow cab and sauntered to the window of Tiffany & Co. in the 1961 film “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” with Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer’s…