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Should You Repay Your Employees’ Student Loans? What’s This? Associations Now Brand Connection provides opportunities for advertisers to connect with the Associations Now audience. All content is paid for by the advertiser. The Associations Now editorial staff is not involved in creating this content. A growing trend in the financial and consulting sectors…
Hey, Delaware, it’s a fine morning for a big headline: #DowDuPont is trending. Heads are spinning about what the mega-merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont means for the First State, but first, the facts: The new company’s name is DowDuPont. The merger will cost about $3 billion, but is projected to create about $30 billion of…
Kristen Valnicek stared at her computer in disbelief. She cupped her hands over her mouth and fell to her bedroom floor. “I can’t feel my body,” she wailed. Then she hopped up and started dancing. She looked back at the screen. “Oh my God, it’s real.” Someone with the username Andy, a fan she’d never…
Gym designers have rid locker rooms of the gnarly shower curtains, trading them in for sexy glass escape pods. They have made bathroom stalls ever more private. Comfy couch corners, Wi-Fi and lockers with built-in locks have gone from swank options to standard issue. “Everyone wants to get upgraded now,” said Rudy Fabiano, an architect…
One of the benefits of private property is that whoever owns it can charge other people to use it. This is called rent. If people want to use this particular property very badly—that is to say, it is in “high demand”—the owner can charge a lot of rent. This is called capitalism. But some owners…
HOW do you follow up on a phenomenon? At the end of its first series “Serial”, presented by Sarah Koenig and affiliated to “This American Life”, had become the most popular podcast in the world. It was the first to reach 5m downloads from iTunes, and each episode reached about 2.2m pairs of ears. The…
Despite the media scare stories, trigger warnings are not widely used by college professors across the country, according to a survey released in full on Tuesday. They’re not even widely demanded by students. And when they are used, the warnings address both liberal and conservative concerns. The nonscientific survey, conducted by the National Coalition Against Censorship,…
Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after…
New EP â1749â coming January 29th. Download âCloserâ on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/LemaitreCloser?IQid=YT.1749 Download Lemaitreâs âSingularityâ EP: http://s… Lemaitre – 1749 EP Teaser – out Jan. 29th – YouTube.
The second season of Sony’s Playstation-exclusive series Powers is on its way, and now we have a taste of what to expect with this trailer for the next season. Season 2 will pick up exactly when Season 1 left off, as Walker is set to investigate the murder of Retro-Girl, one of the beloved heroes…