Growing up as a late ‘90s / early 2000s kid, I was well aware of the fact that almost every item I owned was stamped with the phrase “Made in China.” As years went on, I learned about outsourcing, as well as stories of horrible factory accidents and abysmal working conditions. It seems such a […]
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My grandfather used to live in a small lake house located on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, just across from New Orleans. I remember driving past the ports when we would visit and seeing the shipping yards full of shipping containers in every color of the rainbow, stacked higher than some buildings. The containers looked
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In 1867, a gentleman by the name of Henri Nestlé, a German immigrant working as a pharmacist in Switzerland, had a neighbor with pneumonia that rendered her unable to breastfeed her child. He calculated levels of cows milk, sugar, and wheat flour and tried the baby on it until, finally, the baby took it and
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The general characteristics of some professions never seem to change much. Still, the specifics can mutate as dramatically as a werewolf under a full moon. Take the music industry. A recent study by BearShare shows that for every $1,000 earned, a musician takes home a paltry $23.40 in pocket change. All sorts of people take a cut of a musician’s performance in this
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The DeMorgenzon winery, located in Stellenbosch, South Africa, stands as a case study in excellence due to its owners’ innovative and precise techniques and unique history. Located in the Cape of Good Hope, Stellenbosch was founded in 1679 by Dutch Governor Simon van der Stel. The winery was officially established twenty years later in 1699.
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It looks like the unfriendly skies are here to stay. The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 was implemented to remove government restrictions on the airline industry with regard to schedules, fares, and routes by allowing the airline companies to compete more effectively in the free market. History now shows that it has had the opposite
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