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• Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 11, 2018.
• Early that morning, most phones and computers will automatically shift an hour ahead.
• The interruption to our internal clocks literally kills people: incidents of heart attacks, strokes, and fatal car accidents all spike around the start of Daylight Saving Time each year.

Daylight saving time is a killer. 

The annual ritual in which we trade an hour of morning light... Читать дальше...

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• If you've recently come into some extra money through a raise or some other unexpected windfall, it's probably burning a hole in your pocket.
• But there are much smarter things to do with that money than blowing it all on fancy brunches or those shoes you've never been able to afford.
• Pretending like you don't have it, putting it in savings or investing it are smart moves to make so you don't regret overspending down the road.

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Whether you want to admit it or not, we’ve all dreamed of living in a mansion. And though some celebrities chose to live modestly, others live in homes anyone would envy.

And if you’re going to blow some money, investing in an insanely extravagant home looks like the way to go.

From a trampoline room with 20-foot ceilings to a personal vineyard, these are the most lavish and expensive not-so-humble celebrity abodes that are sure to make any resident feel like royalty. Читать дальше...

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• The Alabama Crimson Tide survived to play another day after a thrilling game against Texas A&M in the SEC Tournament.
• Alabama was trailing by one with just four seconds left in the game when guard Collin Sexton drove coast-to-coast to sink a scooping bucket just before the buzzer sounded.
• The win keeps the Tide's March Madness hopes alive.
• Firmly on the bubble, Alabama will likely need one or two more wins to make it into the field of 68 on Selection Sunday. Читать дальше...

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• Actresses Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes appeared in the March issue of Cosmopolitan Philippines.
• In a series of Instagram posts in honor of International Women's Day, the actresses accused the publication of Photoshopping their waists.  
• Reinhart wrote, "It's sad that you felt our bodies needed to be slimmed down...So like every other day, women...do kick some ass. You are being heard. You are strong and sensational."
• Mendes added... Читать дальше...

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• South Korea and the US are staging their annual military exercise in March.
• North Korea frequently rails against the exercises and considers them a threat.
• But during a watershed meeting with a South Korean envoy, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reportedly said he understood South Korea's stance on the matter.
• Experts say Kim Jong-un's response may have been calculated, and that the US could lose its footing on the Korean Peninsula. Читать дальше...

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• L.L.Bean has long been known for its lifetime return policy, which it ended in February.
• The store now offers a still-generous one-year window for returns. 
• It's not the only US retailer with an extremely generous return policy.

In February, L.L.Bean ended its legendary lifetime return policy to clamp down on customers who were taking advantage and using it to replace heavily worn products.

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• President Donald Trump will announce his new tariffs on steel and aluminum at the White House.
• The tariffs will kick in in 15 days.
• Canada and Mexico will be exempt and other countries can apply for exemptions.

President Donald Trump on Thursday rolled out his new tariffs on steel and aluminum at the White House, kicking off what some economists fear could be a new protectionist shift for the administration.

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• President Donald Trump will announce his new tariffs on steel and aluminum at a White House event.
• The tariffs will reportedly kick in in 15 days.
• Canada and Mexico will be exempt and other countries can apply for exemptions.

President Donald Trump will roll out his new tariffs on steel and aluminum at a White House event Thursday, kicking off what some economists fear could be a new protectionist shift for the administration.

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If you want to save money, buying in bulk seems like a great idea.

However, only you know how your household eats and uses the things you buy. Ultimately, that means only you can determine the best bulk purchases you should make.

Just keep one simple rule in mind and you'll succeed: Don't buy more of something than you can use before it goes bad. Here's a more detailed breakdown of why.

Fresh produce

Meal prepping changes the way you shop. Читать дальше...

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• ESPN and Fox Sports are both trying to get Peyton Manning to serve as a broadcast analyst for them.  
• ESPN would pay Manning well above what Jon Gruden was making for calling Monday Night Football games. 
• There is still no guarantee Manning will move to the TV booth as he could still choose a position in an NFL front office. 

ESPN and Fox Sports are both trying to convince Peyton Manning to join their broadcast teams, and... Читать дальше...

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• Deborah Block is a senior manager of earned media at Libris, a cloud-based digital asset management platform that works with clients such as the Women's March Chicago, Delta, and Chick-fil-A, to digitally store and manage photographs and video footage.
• Block recently spoke with Sarah Matheson, a documentary photographer and digital asset management strategist for Women's March Chicago.
• Matheson and her team worked around the clock... Читать дальше...

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• If you ever had doubts about true love, then you should learn more about these animals who stay loyal to each other for life.
• Male owls flirt using dead mice and screeching, and the females reciprocate by croaking.
• Swans, the symbols of love, curve their necks towards each other in a heart shape when they are courting.

Macaroni penguin

More than 90% of birds are monogamous, but none of them show affection quite like macaroni penguins. Читать дальше...

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• The reboot of "Queer Eye" has been a success for Netflix, garnering critical acclaim for the streaming service.
• The show also comes at a particularly important time for the LGBTQ community politically, socially, and culturally.
• We need this show now more than ever. 

Fifteen years ago, five successful, talented gay men set their sights on helping some heterosexual men become a little more fabulous.

These men worked with their cohorts... Читать дальше...

• An English-language (ESL) teacher details how she spends over $200 in a week, while still paying $500 a month towards her student loans.
• Most of her money is put toward food, drink, clothing and beauty.
• The teacher also enjoys spending a lot of her free time vegging out and catching up on her Netflix binges.

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennials how they spend... Читать дальше...

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• "The Golden Arches" make spotting a McDonald's very easy.
• There's one McDonald's that ditched the famous yellow color for a turquoise logo. 
• Sedona, Arizona opted for bright blue because it was believed the yellow color would clash with the surrounding red rocks. 

The bright yellow letter M for McDonald’s has to be one of the most recognizable logos in the entire world. It adorns McDonald’s restaurants across the globe... Читать дальше...

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• A new report found that major American news outlets have more politically polarized audiences than their counterparts in any other country. 
• Notably, liberal audiences consume news from a wide variety of outlets, while just one outlet — Fox News — captures the vast majority of conservative news consumers. 
• And right-leaning Americans are twice as likely to mistrust the news than those on the left, the report found.

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Blue Frontiers

Peter Thiel's dream of a libertarian utopia in the middle of the ocean may have finally sunk.

Radio New Zealand is reporting that the French Polynesian government has not renewed its agreement to help the Seasteading Institute, a group created in Silicon Valley, build a permanent and politically autonomous settlement off the coast of the South Pacific islands.

In 2008, Thiel, a billionaire investor and Trump transition team member, launched a mission to develop a floating city... Читать дальше...

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• President Donald Trump reportedly received a letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin as a gift in 2013, and its contents remain a mystery.
• The gift supposedly arrived after Trump put on the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, after which he hoped he would be able to construct a Trump Tower in the Russian capital.
• Trump cooperated with a prominent Russian oligarch on the development deal, until it was put in jeopardy by sanctions the US placed on Russia in 2014.
• Trump's... Читать дальше...

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If you clip something, are you cutting it or attaching it together? If something is transparent, is it invisible or obvious? 

The answer, confusingly, could be either one.

A "contronym" is a word that has two contradictory meanings, and the English language is full of them.

Here are 15 common words that can mean two completely different things.

Literally

"Literally" can mean in a literal or figurative sense. Читать дальше...

• Female professionals in Washington, D.C have the highest median earnings.
• However Minnesota rated better overall for the the "economic and social well-being" of working females.
• The study found that women working in the states of Hawaii, Oregon, California, Maine or Montana have the lowest earning power.

For working women, Washington, D.C., may offer the most bang for the buck.