Новости за 14.09.2016

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I recently booked a flight from New York City to Milan for a quick getaway. Faced with the choice of flying Delta or Emirates, both of which had round-trip economy-class tickets for about $800, I quickly opted for the Middle Eastern airline.

Emirates, which is owned by Dubai's government, has exploded onto the US market in the past several years. It is regularly rated one of the top airlines in the world, and I was psyched to experience it on the eight-hour flight. Читать дальше...

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The "Pardon Snowden" campaign kicked off with a joint news conference on Wednesday put together by three human rights groups and interestingly, the man who seeks to benefit the most from it says he's sitting this one out.

"This is an independent campaign that was lead by Amnesty [International], the ACLU and Human Rights Watch," Snowden told the crowd at the conference (Snowden is under asylum in Moscow and addressed the audience through the use of a telepresence robot). Читать дальше...

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The design for Hudson Yards' massive, interactive public centerpiece, which had previously been kept secret, was unveiled September 14.

The structure — part interconnected stairway, part tower, part art piece — will stand in the heart of the development's outdoor public space. Called Vessel, it is currently being referred to as a "public landmark" by Hudson Yards developer Related Companies. And though that description may sound vague, it's justified — the design defies classification. Читать дальше...

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Apple has actually gone through with that “no more headphone jack” thing. This could be annoying.

While all wireless headphones continue to suffer from the same problems — higher prices, a reliance on batteries, and generally duller sound than their wired counterparts — those downsides are countered by, well, not having to use cables. For a lot of people, that's enough.

So, since the future of audio appears to be wireless — at least if you plan on buying an iPhone 7 —... Читать дальше...

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Don't feel like contributing to the $1.4 trillion student-loan debt in the US?

Luckily, there are plenty of high-paying jobs you can get that require only a high-school diploma.

According to the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, these are the 30 highest-paying jobs that you don't need any college experience to pursue.

Each has a median annual salary of at least $57,000.

30. Construction and building inspectors

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Business Insider is looking for a paid intern to join our growing video team this fall.

The social media intern will learn how to grow an audience for a large digital news site, how to engage viewers across a variety of mediums, and how to identify trending stories.

Responsibilities include uploading and writing Facebook video, YouTube and Instagram posts, working with producers and editors to identify and promote stories, and engaging with viewers.

The... Читать дальше...

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Uber wants people to get used to the idea of riding in a self-driving car.

That's why the ride-hailing service is letting a select few customers hail a Ford Fusion retrofitted with Uber's driverless tech in Pittsburgh as of Wednesday morning.

We got behind the wheel of Uber's self-driving cars earlier this week. Here's a look inside:

Uber is using a Ford Fusion decked out with autonomous tech. There's a giant spinning lidar on top and 20 different cameras. Читать дальше...

Here’s a story you haven’t heard anything about. But which might vault into the headlines of the mining investment world very, very soon.

L.L.Bean offers a '100% satisfaction guarantee' on all of its products meaning they will accept all returns with or without the receipt however long ago you purchased the item. We spoke with Business Insider reporters about why this return policy is easily the best there is.

The White House

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is under fire for naming military ships after politically controversial figures, including the late gay rights activist Harvey Milk and union leader Cesar Chavez.

Retired Vice Adm. Doug Crowder criticized Mabus’ decision to name a ship after former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D., Ariz.), who survived a gun shot wound to her head five years ago and has been a leading voice advocating for stricter gun control measures.

Crowder, who served as... Читать дальше...

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A pastor interrupted Donald Trump's speech before a black church in Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday after Trump began to rip his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

"Mr. Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we've done for Flint, not to give a political speech," the pastor, Rev. Faith Green-Timmons, told the Republican presidential candidate.

"Oh OK, OK, OK, that's good," Trump replied. "Then I'm going to go back on to Flint."

The pastor's... Читать дальше...

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The gender pay gap between women and men is the largest for students who graduated from elite colleges, according to a study released by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank based in Washington D.C. 

The study looked at a cohort of students who enrolled in both public and private four-year colleges in 2001 and 2002 with financial aid and then reviewed their average earnings six and 1o years later.

Male financial aid recipients who graduated from elite... Читать дальше...

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A top North Carolina lawmaker rushed to defend his state's controversial law that critics say discriminates against LGBT people, on the same day it cost the state a second slate of major college sporting events.

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Wednesday it would relocate all eight championship games scheduled to be played in North Carolina this academic year, claiming the law would compromise the conference's values of "equality, diversity, inclusion... Читать дальше...

In the late 1960s, a food industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation paid three Harvard researchers $6,500 (about $50,000 today) to discount research that increasingly showed links between sugar and heart disease and to point the blame at fat instead, according to an analysis of historical food industry documents that was published September 12.

Writing about climate change presents an interesting challenge.

It's a slow, constant process. Global temperatures rise a little every year, bit by bit accruing disastrous consequences. We get used to hearing that this year, like many years in recent memory, will be the hottest on record. That glaciers are melting. That food insecurity is increasing. That more and more people face climate-induced natural disasters.

As with any slow-moving (on human timescales) tragedy, it's difficult... Читать дальше...

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There are few experiences more demoralizing than looking out at your audience during a presentation and seeing one of your coworkers out cold.

Okay, so he was probably just tired. But a great presentation keeps your listeners on their toes and inspires them to think differently about whatever topic you're addressing.

That's not to say that delivering a solid talk is easy. In fact, it's incredibly difficult.

To help you out on that front, we checked out the Quora thread... Читать дальше...

Former President Bill Clinton joked on Wednesday about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, saying it had been portrayed as the "biggest problem since World War II" during a Nevada campaign stop.

Every once in a while, I'll see a headline about some old flagship Android phone like the HTC One M9 or one of Samsung's Galaxy S phones that's "finally" getting Android 6.0 Marshmallow, the version of Android that was released a year ago.

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Ben Rubin has worked in television for 25 years and owns The Mint Farm, a marketing company that creates commercials and promotions for television networks and social media.

However, he has recently become a star on social media himself by posting images of furry monsters superimposed on subway travelers to Facebook and Instagram.

His "Subway Doodle" creatures run the gamut from cuddly to blood-curdling — kind of like New York City subway riders themselves. Читать дальше...

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I think a distinction should be drawn between the two proposals aimed at working women that Donald Trump laid out Tuesday.

Trump's child-care plan is ill-considered. He's been describing this plan gradually, and I've written before about its problems: Mainly, he would provide an expensive subsidy to affluent families while doing less to help lower-income parents who really struggle to pay for child care.

Trump claimed on Tuesday that Hillary Clinton had no child-care plan, which is false. Читать дальше...

Brookhaven National Laboratory

By now, you might be familiar with the concept of particle accelerators through the work of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the monstrous accelerator that enabled scientists to detect the Higgs boson.

But the LHC is not alone — the world is equipped with more than 3o,000 particle accelerators that are used for a seemingly endless variety of tasks. Some of these machines, like the LHC, accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light to smash them together... Читать дальше...

 Alex Gervash always dreamed of being a pilot.

"When I was a twenty-year-old boy, instead of going to school, I went to the airport and sat there for hours, just looking at the airplanes landing and taking off," he told INSIDER.

Not everyone shares Gervash's enthusiasm. About one in three people suffer from aerophobia, the fear of flying, and an additional 10 to 15% of people experience some level anxiety or psychological discomfort during air travel.

To help ease these fears... Читать дальше...

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The streak is over. 

After three action-packed days in markets, stocks finished Wednesday roughly unchanged and acted a lot more like what we'd seen during the S&P 500's 43-day streak of closes inside a 1% range.

First, the scoreboard:

• Dow: 18,034.8, -32, (-0.2%)
• S&P 500: 2,125.8, -1.3, (-0.1%)
• Nasdaq: 5,173.8, +18.5, (+0.4%)
• WTI crude oil: $43.60, -2.8%
• 10-year Treasury: 1.7%

And now, the... Читать дальше...