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José Fernández, the 24-year-old Miami Marlins pitcher who died this weekend in a boating accident off the coast of Florida, was imprisoned in Cuba as a teenager for trying to escape the island.

He finally managed to defect at age 15, but only after saving his mother Maritza from drowning.

Just five years later, he won the 2013 National League Rookie of the Year Award and finished third in the voting for the Cy Young.

Though he started only 76 games in his career... Читать дальше...

Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus, the clinical director of Maze Women's Sexual health, reveals why successful people tend to have more sex than others.

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The current Italian banking crisis carries with it the possibility of bank failures. The consequences of these failures pyramid the crisis because of European Union regulations. Essentially, the position of the European Union is that the European Central Bank (ECB) and the central banks of member countries cannot bail out failing banks by recapitalizing them—in other words, injecting money to keep them solvent.

EU regulations go so far as to prohibit Italy from using... Читать дальше...

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LSU has fired football coach Les Miles, multiple sources confirmed to The Advocate on Sunday. 

Miles coached the Tigers for 12 years, winning the BCS championship in 2007. His team entered the season ranked fifth in the country, but after losing to Auburn on Saturday to fall to 2-2 on the season, the Tigers are no longer ranked in the top 25. 

Along with Miles, offensive coordinator Cam Cameron has also reportedly been fired. 

Miles was nearly fired at the end of the 2015 season... Читать дальше...

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"Shark Tank," the show that took venture capital pitches mainstream, returns Friday for its eighth season.

Over the past seven years, the series has not only picked up Emmys for being an entertaining reality show, but has created ubiquitous brands like Scrub Daddy cleaning supplies and Bantam Bagels, which recently made it into Starbucks nationwide.

The show is an entertainment product and a launchpad for hundreds of American startups, requiring... Читать дальше...

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North Korean defectors are going to prison for drugs, and it's part of a larger problem

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On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and into the city's famous fog. The military was testing how a biological weapon attack would affect the 800,000 residents of the city.

The people of San Francisco had no idea.

The Navy continued the tests for seven days, potentially causing at least one death. It was one of the first large-scale biological weapon... Читать дальше...

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A top official in Yemen's armed Houthi movement on Sunday offered to stop attacks on Saudi Arabia and an amnesty for Yemeni fighters opposing the group if the kingdom stopped air strikes and lifted a near blockade on the country.

The move falls short of demands by Yemen's government and their backers in Saudi Arabia, but offers rare hope for a pause to 18 months of fighting which has killed at least 10,000 people and pushed impoverished Yemen toward famine.

"(In... Читать дальше...

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Salary potential shouldn't be the sole thing that attracts you to a particular college or university. But with average student-loan debt hovering around $37,000, students and parents can't afford not to consider average post-graduation earnings while looking at schools. 

PayScale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database, recently looked at the starting and mid-career pay for over a million college grads — including professionals who graduated with... Читать дальше...

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Victor Ho is the CEO of FiveStars, a company that helps small businesses offer loyalty-reward programs more effectively.

Since its founding in 2011, FiveStars has raised $105 million in funding from a star list of investors including Social Capital, Menlo Ventures, and Y Combinator.

But perhaps what makes FiveStars more interesting is Ho's unique background.

After spending years at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey, he was close to landing a job at a top private-equity firm, his parent's dream. Читать дальше...

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Globetrotting gourmet Anthony Bourdain has never shied from offering a blunt opinion, particularly when it comes to food. 

Bourdain took part in a Reddit Ask Me Anything this week, touching on topics ranging from comfort food to uncomfortable moments abroad.

And when asked about what food trend he would like to see develop, he held forth on a ubiquitous but undervalued cuisine:

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More than 100 people chanted and marched outside a National Football League (NFL) game in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday in protests over police killing a black man, a day after police released videos of the confrontation.

Protesters have filled the city's streets for nearly a week in response to the killing of Keith Scott, 43, who police said was armed when officers shot him on Tuesday, although Sunday's gathering was smaller than those seen in earlier in the week. Читать дальше...

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I recently tested out a VW Beetle "Dune," a special edition of the iconic reboot of the legendary "people's car."

The car is loads of fun, has an amazing audio system, and is pretty cheap, at under $30,000.

But it also has a nifty feature that no driver is ever going to see — although he or she might hear it, and it solves a problem that every driver with a backup camera has faced when the weather gets rough.

Check it out:

It's an adorable little... Читать дальше...

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Wall Street is talking about a second "taper tantrum."

In 2013, then Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the Fed would taper, or gradually reduce, its bond-buying program that pumped money into the financial system.

Investors freaked out and dumped bonds, which in turn spiked yields.

Fixed income is selling off again, especially in emerging markets, sending yields higher this month.

"Investors are contemplating the risk of a renewed... Читать дальше...

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The United States on Sunday called Russia's action in Syria "barbarism," not counter-terrorism, while Moscow's UN envoy said ending the war "is almost an impossible task now" as Syrian government forces, backed by Moscow, bombed the city of Aleppo.

The United Nations Security Council met on Sunday at the request of the United States, Britain and France to discuss the escalation of fighting in Aleppo following the announcement on Thursday of an offensive by the Syrian army to retake the city. Читать дальше...

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In regular conversation, we reserve the word "leader" for the people who stand out at an organization. According to this logic, "manager" is simply a role, and leadership must be earned.

According to management philosophy that Facebook runs on, however, managers and leaders are indeed profoundly different — but both are necessary.

Facebook's VP of People Lori Goler told Business Insider that since joining the company in 2008 to head up its HR department,... Читать дальше...

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Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if elected, the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the campaign said, marking a potential dramatic shift in U.S. policy on the issue.

During the meeting that lasted more than an hour at Trump Tower in New York, Trump told Netanyahu that under his administration, the United States would "recognize Jerusalem... Читать дальше...

The TSA are trained to detect even the most cleverly hidden weapons that try to make their way onto airplanes. The agency has an intriguing Instagram account that displays some of their most bizarre findings.

Janet Yellen has obviously read Kahneman’s work. That’s the only way I can think of to explain what she said about “asset values” yesterday. She hopes that if the Fed, probably the greatest “authoritarian institution” on the planet today, says it enough then people will just take it as fact.

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Some days, you might feel like a pretty substantial person. Maybe you have a lot of friends, or an important job, or a really big car.

But it might humble you to know that all of those things — your friends, your office, your really big car, you yourself, and even everything in this incredible, vast universe — are almost entirely, 99.9999999% empty space.

Here's the deal. As I previously wrote in a story for the particle physics publication Symmetry, the size... Читать дальше...

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Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and author of "Anatomy of Love," says heartbreak has physiological effects on our minds and bodies. There's a scientific reason it hurts so much.

According to a study, lifting weights may be a great way to boost your brain health in addition to improving your strength. 

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Check out the final board from a World Scrabble Championship and you might feel like you're reading a foreign language.

You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions, you'd spent months poring over the dictionary, learning names for plant parts and ancient instruments.

We dug up the words from the last four years of Scrabble championships and highlighted some of the weirdest below. See if you can guess what they mean — we've included the definitions, too. Читать дальше...