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Fashion Dive
While many fashion companies spend time and energy courting their youngest customers, there’s a vast and growing market segment that’s been largely neglected.
WWD
Steampunk is a whole new kind of retro rebellion, and its complicated rules make it difficult for mainstream to co-opt its look. Which suits its followers just fine.
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American Libraries
When a handful of books stopped being returned at Vinton (Iowa) Public Library, Janette McMahon suspected it was more than just forgetfulness. McMahon, the library director at the time, says residents of the east central Iowa town of 5,000 had been discussing book bans, and it had become heated.
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NPR
It's often the biggest purchase someone will make after a car and a home. But these days, people ain't buying it - for real. There is a crisis in the diamond industry with sales nosediving. And here to explain why is Lara Ewen. She's covered the diamond industry for a long time. Welcome.
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Sourcing Journal
On September 1—Labor Day, for those seeking symbolism—Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a proposal
to raise the minimum wage in Los Angeles from the current $9 per hour to $13.25 in 2017.
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Slate
Our weather, our communications, our financial markets, and even our GPS systems are monitored by a network of satellites orbiting Earth. Yet we rarely think about proprietary rights above our atmosphere. The team at BBC’s iWonder commissioned this short film animated by Mark Ovenden to explain the complicated and sometimes elusive question of who actually owns space.
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