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Read More U.S. producer prices fell in Sept. due to cheaper gas
The Labor Department said Wednesday that the producer price index dropped 0.5 percent last month
Read More Car-buying fuels bump in September retail sales
Americans increased their spending at auto dealers, restaurants and clothiers in September
Read More State’s $300,000 e-textbooks flunk out with critics
New online textbooks are free for all — but marred by poor writing, editing and factual errors, critics say
Read More World’s biggest beer makers to join forces
SABMiller accepted in principle a takeover bid worth $106 billion from Anheuser Busch InBev
Read More Martha Stewart: I should have bought Kmart
The home goods mogul said she regrets not buying Kmart before a deal with the discount chain went sour
Read More Brooks Brothers is opening in Harbor East
Brooks Brothers will open a store in Baltimore’s Harbor East neighborhood early next year.
The iconic retailer will move into the former City Sports spot, a more than 5,000-square-foot space at 809 Aliceanna Street, Harbor East management Group and Brooks Brothers Group Inc. said Tuesday.
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Exchange Your Skills For Free Services With A Different Kind Of Bank: A Time Bank
A new sharing economy app actually involves sharing.
Instead of paying for a service—whether you need an accountant or carpenter or Spanish lessons—imagine you pay with something else: your own time. Each hour you give your skills to someone else, you earn an hour you can spend with someone else.
These Mechanical Cat Legs March Us Toward The Robopocalypse
When the robots come, what horrifying form will they take?
In order to better understand cats, researchers at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan built robot cat legs. The result of their labors is documented in this video, which shows the terrifying prospect of disembodied feline legs rendered in metal, leaping to 1.3 times their own height.
Spy A Trove Of Whimsical Paper Planes Found On NYC Streets
Artist Harry Smith’s collection is plane genius.
Folding a paper airplane is a rite of passage for many kids. With a few strategic creases, anything from a page ripped out of a magazine to piece of card stock could become airborne. While they’re never going to be a marvels of aviation design, paper planes are clever little case studies about problem-solving: How do you tweak the shape to make the damn thing soar?
