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You can lead a kid to healthier foods, but you can’t make him take a bite.

Ever since the introduction of mandatory fruits and vegetables for schoolchildren, kids have eaten less of them than before. The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, introduced in 2010 and in effect from last year, forces schoolchildren to take a piece of fruit or a vegetable and put it on their lunch tray. What it does’t do is force them to eat it. A new study shows that kids toss their apples into the trash before they even take a place at a table.

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The Pope’s U.S. visit later this week is disrupting life in and around Philadelphia—including postal deliveries.

Seldom do two Western religions clash quite this directly. But for some devotees of the Church of Cupertino, this weekend’s Papal visit to the East Coast could bring some devastating news: Your new iPhone might take a few extra days to get to you.

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Uber launched a long-distance carpooling option for commuters in Chengdu, China.

Now that China’s leading ride-hailing company, Didi Kuaidi, has forged a partnership with Lyft, Uber is facing pressure to step up its game in the region. Though Uber has already invested about $1 billion in the Chinese market—and has seen significant growth there, with its Chinese drivers serving about 1 million rides per day—Lyft’s new alliance could hamper the company’s progress, since Didi Kuaidi already looms large over Uber in China.

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At last, an app-savvy wearable for your wrist that no sane person would describe as “chunky.”

Read enough reviews of smartwatches, and you may notice a theme:

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Martin Winterkorn, who has been Volkswagen’s CEO since 2007, stepped down from his position on Wednesday.

As Pope Francis prepared to speak on Capitol Hill in favor of climate change reform, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn announced his untimely resignation. The decision came after last week’s revelations by the Environmental Protection Agency that the German automaker had covertly installed a “defeat device” that switched on during emissions tests, making the vehicles appear low-emission. According to Volkswagen, the technology was installed in 11 million cars going back as far as 2009.

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In the future, everyone will have 15 haters.

It seems the attack that hit last June was even worse than we thought.

Since it was announced in June that hackers had breached the U.S. Government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) database, the full breadth of the crippling cyberattack has gone from bad to worse. First, there was the revelation that the government’s initial claims that data had been stolen from just 4.4 million current and former government employees was a gross underestimate. In fact, the actual number was closer to 22 million affected employees, many of whom provided extremely personal information to the OPM—including social security numbers, birth dates, and statements on their sex lives, mental health history, and drug use—while applying for government jobs. As a result, OPM head Katherine Archuleta resigned the next day.

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