Enlarge (credit: Robert Nickelsberg / Contributor | Getty Images News) For years, people in cars stuck behind blue delivery trucks in traffic have echoed media reports criticizing Amazon for clogging American roadways. It’s well-known that the Amazon drivers steering these fleets of trucks and vans don’t actually work for Amazon but are hired by companies […]
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No one knew retired firefighter ‘Captain Bob’ was struggling with PTSD. Now his peers are learning the signs
A cultural shift in the understanding of how PTSD can affect first responders hasn’t necessarily reached people who have retired from careers as police, paramedics and firefighters. The union representing firefighters in Richmond is working to change that.
More than 100 female MPs and peers posed for a photo in British Parliament to mark 100 years of votes for women
UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor Theresa May and more than 100 other MPs and peers posed in the Palace of Westminster. They stood with an original copy of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which first granted women the vote in 1918. Female MPs and members of the House of Lords gathered in Britain’s Houses of […]
Millennial investors and their older peers are split on Disney ahead of earnings (DIS)
VCG/Getty Images Disney is is set to report earnings of $ 1.16 per share Thursday after-the-bell. The company is also expected to have more details of its standalone streaming service and the talks it’s reportedly held with 21st Century Fox. Disney is scheduled to report earnings after the bell on Thursday, when CEO Bob Iger and his team […]
A $4 billion fund manager who’s crushing his peers shares his favorite sector to ride out the inevitable downturn
T. Rowe Price Justin White started his career “at a consulting firm you’ve never heard of.” But after joining the asset-management giant T. Rowe Price, and showing a strong track record as a media and tech analyst, he was tapped last April to run its New America Growth Fund. Like many peers who made big bets on […]
Brains of ‘superagers’ with remarkable memories ‘shrink slower than their peers’
THE brains of elderly people blessed with remarkable memories – known as “superagers” – shrink significantly slower than their peers, research has found. Daily Express :: Health Feed
