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The first two years of a relationship are usually considered the most exciting. After that, according to psychotherapist and author M. Gary Neuman, couples have to work to maintain that initial level of intimacy and excitement.

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Workers throughout the country will take some time off around the holidays this year.

If you're one of those people, you've got to make sure that you're not squandering your precious time off.

Business Insider spoke with Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of "Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job" about the major mistakes professionals make while on break.

Here are some behaviors to avoid:

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LeEco released a statement in November addressing concerns in the media regarding the company’s Zhejiang and Tianjin automotive plants.

According to the company, things were progressing smoothly at the Zhejiang Moganshan plant, while the plant in Tianjin’s Ji County needed more work.

When journalists actually visited the site, however, they found that work had not started on any of the projects.

The statement said that the Le Supercar Industrial Park... Читать дальше...

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“If you get into a trade war with China, sooner or later we’ll have to come to grips with that,” Carl Icahn, now special advisor to President-Elect Trump, told CNBC on Thursday. “I remember the day something like that would really knock the hell out of the market.”

A trade war with China surely would be another wall of worry for stocks to climb. Trump’s rhetoric against China, each morsel packaged into 140 characters or less, has already recreated much-needed turbulence [read… Trump Tweets about China... Читать дальше...

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Since the first nuclear test on July 15, 1945, there have been over 2,051 other nuclear weapons tests around the world. 

No other force epitomizes the absolute destructive power humanity has unlocked in the way nuclear weapons have. And the weapons rapidly became more powerful in the decades after that first test.

The device tested in 1945 had a 20 kiloton yield, meaning it had the explosive force of 20,000 tons of TNT. Within 20 years, the US and USSR tested nuclear weapons larger than 10 megatons... Читать дальше...

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Small talk exists for a reason.

When you first meet someone at a conference or a holiday party, you might seem a little strange if you launch right into, "What's your favorite childhood memory?"

That said, you don't want to get stuck talking about the fact that it's raining hard forever. At some point, you'll want to hear a person's real story — why they chose to go into their current line of work or what they love about being a dad.

To help you have more meaningful conversations... Читать дальше...

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Press pool reports—those from-the-scene dispatches circulated by pool journalists to a larger ring of media outlets—have always been a subtle, deadpan art. It can be a tedious job to cover the White House, receiving canned remarks from flacks and observing the endless procession of undersecretaries and dignitaries.

In the past, the reports usually exuded a cheerful due diligence, a gameness to do mundane work for the good of the country and hopefully entertain fellow journalists, too. Читать дальше...

Many people don’t realize that over the past 2,000 years, this sacred text has changed a great deal. No "first edition" exists.  What we have are copies, the first of which were made hundreds of years after the events supposedly took place.

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President-elect Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp" in Washington struck a chord with millions of Americans and helped propel him to his stunning election as the nation's 45th president.

Trump can start by reversing many of the laws the Obama administration created on its own, in its serial abuse of executive authority. Unable to get Congress to enact his environmental and energy policies, Obama had federal agencies concoct regulations that accomplished the same thing and he... Читать дальше...

These are the bad habits you most likely cling to but should rid yourself of. It will enhance your productivity and make you feel better. 

Eventually, stars die — not with a whimper, but with a bang.

When they do, there's the potential that any nearby planets could be devastated by destructive cosmic rays, potentially wiping out life on those worlds.

We're not quite ready to build any sort of defense for human civilization against a barrage of this sort, according to Milan Cirkovic and Branislav Vukotic of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, writing in a study published this month in the journal Acta Astronautica. Читать дальше...

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First-time parents face a mountain of expenses, from top-of-the-line nursery furniture to dozens of teensy polka-dotted socks.

But filling a nursery isn't the only thing making demands on a new parent's wallet. Unscheduled doctor's visits, utility bill spikes, and the ever-increasing cost of childcare can hit new parents' bank accounts with a variety of unexpected costs.

While everyone's experience is different, a little foresight can be great for the budget. Читать дальше...

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Evercore is set to finish 2016 with Wall Street bragging rights. 

The small firm is on course to finish the year top as the No.1 boutique investment bank in M&A, according to Dealogic. It ranks 11 overall.

It has been a big year for the firm. It landed roles on two of the biggest deals of the year: Qualcomm's $47 billion deal for NXP, and CenturyLink's $33.7 billion deal for Level 3. It hired John Weinberg, part of a Goldman Sachs dynasty, to be executive chairman. Читать дальше...

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A lot can be said about a man from his choice in collars.

Here are the most common styles in menswear, along with a little guidance.

THE FORWARD POINT COLLARAlex Crawford/Articles of Style

Distinctive quality: the narrow space between the two collar points, which are often not covered by the jacket lapels.

Recommended for: traditionalists, minimalists, bowtie wearers, formal shirts, guys with round faces, narrow ties.

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Citi is taking a different tack when it comes to recruiting young talent.

The Wall Street firm is using Snap Spectacles — the sunglasses made by Snapchat's parent company with miniature cameras used to record video — to show candidates what life at Citi might look like.

"What we really loved about this concept is it allowed people to get a bird's eye view to see new interactions and follow someone around as they do their job," said Courtney Storz, head... Читать дальше...

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This year's US presidential election has caused enormous strains on relationships of all sorts, from friendships to families to marriages.

According to a Monmouth University poll, 7% of voters report having lost or ended a friendship because of this year's divisive presidential race. Despite party affiliations, one thing most voters could agree on was that this election brought out the worst in people.

As The New York Times and The Atlantic both reported... Читать дальше...

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If you have a few days off over the holidays, there's one thing you can do to take care of yourself that will significantly change your life for the better — try to fix your sleeping schedule.

Of course, sometimes that's easier said than done. In our busy, wired, non-stop culture, 40% of people sleep less than the recommended seven to nine hours a night.

Indeed, between a third and half of all adults in the US and around the world suffer from insomnia at some point in their lives. Читать дальше...

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Starbucks has led the way for not just fast-casual restaurants, but all of retail when it comes to using customer-facing technology in its stores. The company was the first major chain to integrate digital payment into its app, making it a common sight to see people pay by holding up their phones to a scanner. That happened well before payment via phone become a relatively common thing, and it forced other chains to follow.

Starbucks also led the way with Mobile Order & Pay. Читать дальше...

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If we ever had coffee and I asked you what your skills are, you'd probably tell me one of two things:

1. I don't know what my skills are.

2. I don't have (m)any.

The first answer might be born from the simple fact that you haven’t thought about that question often.

The second answer, is probably because you’re human. We humans have a difficult job seeing our own skills as skills. We don't consider them skills but rather just things we do. Читать дальше...

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Twenty-three of Mexico's 32 states have registered more homicide victims through November this year than over the same period last year — in some cases hundreds more.

Data released by the Mexican government this week revealed that in the first 11 months of this year, there were 18,915 homicide cases opened in Mexico and 20,858 homicide victims recorded throughout the country.

Those numbers are enough to make 2016 the most deadly year of President Enrique Peña Nieto's six-term... Читать дальше...

Dr. Melanie Grossman, a dermatologist based in New York City, explains the best daily facial regiment in order to keep your face healthy and clean. 

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When it comes to self-driving cars, an old adage still holds true: it's quality, not quantity.

Google has been developing its cars since 2009 and one of its favorite stats to share about the project is that its self-driving cars have driven over 2 million miles. Google, which spun out its self-driving car unit into an independent company called Waymo last week, wrote on the Waymo website that the cars now have "the equivalent of over 300 years of human driving experience... Читать дальше...