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Recent examples of low board diversity in Canada highlight the difficulty faced by large companies striving to avoid discrimination. For example, some three in 10 board members at Canadian banks are male and entirely…
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that six known U.S. cases of the Zika virus have occurred in residents of Hawaii. Zika virus symptoms include fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis,…
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Using the #meta hashtag, social media users compare the site to a fictional corporation that funded Hezbollah with US tax dollars and a mysterious and shadowy figure Social media users in Israel are ridiculing…
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A Virginia Democrat has asserted that Republicans are on a “vicious campaign” to turn the state’s public schools into “another pawn in their grand partisan games,” in a video that urges voters to hold…
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The chicken was so good, it was pretty much the only thing that could make up for Facebook’s privacy issue. Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology for the breakdown in Facebook’s privacy systems…
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Atlanta Braves players celebrate their World Series win with a giant paper bag. Eleven players from both teams were named All-Stars by Major League Baseball this year, though only five made the cut when…
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Before Juan Martin del Potro’s win over Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of the Paris Masters the Argentine superstar owned the dream big white jersey of all top-flight male tennis players and is now…
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This week in Katowice, Poland, the UN climate change conference is kicking off amid predictions of a global melt. [Retweet if you want Trump’s Administration to stick to our 2016 mandate to reduce CO2…
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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, the Silicon Valley company, who is currently on trial in federal court in California for securities fraud, has always professed to be something of a polymath, a West…
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Written by by Kitra Cahana, CNN Dutch scientists have developed a pig kidney transplant system that is almost as effective as human. Writing in an article published in the journal Nature Methods , a…
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