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Month: July 2022

Paris Haute Couture Week: Clothes for the 1%, thrills for everyone else

Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN This week in Paris, a series of designer collections featuring handcrafted, one-of-a-kind, eye-wateringly expensive high fashion was once again unveiled during the city’s biannual Haute Couture Week. Closer to collectible art than the clothing most regular people own, couture fashion is exclusive by definition, with each bespoke garment made for one

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Engineers try to electro shock invasive carp

By John Lauritsen Click here for updates on this story     BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota (WCCO) — There are efforts to reduce invasive fish populations on Twin Cities lakes by a process called “electro-shock.” “We were catching them by the buckets. Five-gallon buckets. We couldn’t even count them there were so many,” said Jordan Wein of WSB. Last

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La economía de Estados Unidos sumó 372.000 empleos en junio, superando las expectativas

Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La economía estadounidense añadió 372.000 puestos de trabajo en junio, un impulso inesperado a la contratación y una señal de que el mercado laboral sigue caliente a pesar de los temores de recesión, según el informe mensual de empleo de la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales, publicado este viernes. La tasa

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Period-tracking apps are trying to make women feel safer about their data after the end of Roe v. Wade

By Jennifer Korn In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, women living in states that criminalize abortion are grappling with the possibility that their phones could now hold incriminating information about their travel, search history and menstrual cycles. With that in mind, some popular services are rethinking the data

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The federal office focused on health impacts of climate crisis has no permanent staff or funding

By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden’s first sweeping executive orders on climate included launching an entirely new office within the Department of Health and Human Services with an important mandate: dealing with the public health impacts of climate change. But nearly a year after the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity was established,

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