Fifteen years ago, two Stanford graduate students, Adam Bowen and James Monsees, presented their product design thesis on “the national future of smoking.” In a video of the presentation, Bowen and Monsees are heard describing their interest in design …
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Total SA has suspended its planned $3.5 billion crude export pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania after the collapse of a deal to buy a stake in Tullow Oil
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Gallery: Elton Park project complete with 151 residential units, 5 new buildings and a restored cab garage in Detroit’s Corktown. By Matt Durr | mattdurr@mlive.com. DETROIT — The largest development in years to hit Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood officially …
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It was predicted to be the death knell for the traditional British boozer and likely to lead to a slump in business and permanent closures. But 12 years since the introduction of the smoking ban in England, a pub guide has credited the initiative with transforming …
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Washington (CNN) It’s easy to be cynical about the politics of guns in the age of mass shootings. From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Newtown to Parkland to El Paso and Dayton, the immediate outcry for more and better gun laws in the wake of mass …
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