This is why Amazon is the wrong comparison for Best Buy
I look at Best Buy, which recently fired Hubert Joly, its CEO, and say to myself: Really? Do they hate him that much? I’m a fan of Joly’s efforts, and at worst it seems…
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Tale of the Tape: Model, Author, Photographer
The Festival of the Agincourt Revolution Award Dinner The Gardener: Rolf Hedden At present she’s in the process of completing her fourth book, 90 Years, by collecting stories of less well-known women whose accomplishments…
Report: About 50 dead, another 18 injured in deadly truck-migrant accident
(All Times local) CARRIED AWAY: Unconfirmed reports from local media in Mexico put the death toll at nearly 50, with around 20 injured in the crash involving a truck that was carrying migrants en…
Golf Draft Profile: Anna Nordqvist of Sweden
NAME: Anna Nordqvist STATUS: 17 FIVE-HOUR FOUR-AND-A-HALF-MILE TRIP TO INTERNATIONAL GOLF CENTER MAY: Faced veteran Karrie Webb in the second round of the Jennifer Kim Memorial Match Play championship, but was forced to settle…
Beyond the Monolith: Inside F1 as the sport enters a new era
Written by Michele Russell for CNN When a Ferrari F1 car is performing breathtaking overtakes, at the front or the back of the field, watching it is like being at the most exciting championships…
NGO floats ambitious ocean clean-up project
A new Seattle-based startup has taken seed funding from Tusk Ventures and billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to pilot a project that will provide resources and electricity to six isolated small islands in the…
Top Chancellor posts now occupied by 2 women
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will begin her sixth term as chancellor on Wednesday as leader of the Christian Democratic Union and head of the conservative bloc, but she will be succeeded after 16 years…
Landscapers, BBC Two, 19:00 Sunday
BBC Documentaries “Landscapers” Airs Sunday 16 December at 19:00 GMT “Racist violence meets discovery in this unsettling TV documentary. Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star in the one-off mini-series based on the disturbing true…
Car companies don’t want the U.S. to follow Maryland’s lead on ZEV standards
Government mandates that automakers make enough electric and hybrid cars to reach a set annual sales goal by the end of next year are needed as quickly as possible and automakers should honor them,…
Hong Kong activists fined over disruption
Image copyright EPA Image caption The activists were found guilty of disrupting assembly after demanding a vote on universal suffrage A Hong Kong court has found two pro-democracy activists guilty of disrupting a government…