This powerful essay about a painful childhood memory got a student into 14 colleges including Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton
By Abby Jackson From Business Insider We all have memories from our childhood that we’d likely rather forget. Sometimes it’s those very same painful life lessons that have the most lasting impact on your world view. Recent Harvard University graduate…
Cayman Islands police warn against the use of hyperlinks to install applications on mobile phones
From RCIPS The RCIPS FCU has learned that some mobile phone customers have received messages like the one below inviting them to click on a suspicious hyperlink in order to download a feature on Whatsapp. (The missing “s” in the…
A revolutionary weather satellite is being launched this weekend
By Tom Hale From IFL Science The best weather satellite the US has ever developed is being launched this weekend and is set to “revolutionize” the way we understand and forecast the weather. NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) is…
How the wealthy untie the knot
By Jamie Robertson Business reporter, From BBC News As Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are no doubt finding out, divorce is painful – and expensive. While the pain is the same for rich and poor, the expense, for the rich,…
Miami’s condo market is coming under severe stress
By Wolf Richter Wolf Street From Business Insider The Miami-Dade County condo market is coming under severe stress, and turmoil is spreading. There are two aspects: supply and sales activity overall, and the more obscure but highly indicative “preconstruction market.”…
How The Rock went from $7 to his name to the highest-paid star in Hollywood
By Kirsten Acuna and Jason Guerrasio From Business Insider Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been on an incredible run of late and things have only gotten better. Along with Forbes naming him the highest-paid actor in the world in August with $64.5…
Violence against Muslims increased in 2015
By Tess Owen VICE News From Business Insider Hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. surged in 2015 in the biggest increase since 9/11, according to FBI data released Monday. The increase from 2014 to 2015, as a racially charged…
Some people with Alzheimer’s seem to resist memory loss
By Sharon Begley, STAT From Business Insider The defective proteins that are widely thought to kill brain neurons and cause, or at least indicate,Alzheimer’s disease do not always have that calamitous result, scientists reported on Monday, raising more doubts about…
Oxford University will offer free online courses in 2017
By Andrew Dalton From Business Insider The university’s first MOOC will focus on government’s role in economic development. The highest ranked university in the world will soon join prestigious institutions like Berkeley, Harvard and MIT in offering free massive open…
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CROSSWORD PARCEL # 4 YESTERDAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE #3 SOLUTION
