Amazon reveals KiddieKindle and pocket money scheme

'It's not screen time, it's book time' so do your chores or I'll take away your NOVEL!
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Villa Del Mare: Lola Wang Li and the secretive web of Chinese wealth

Hockey's forced sale of the Point Piper property has only underscored how little Australian authorities know about the rivers of mysterious money heating up high-end real estate markets.
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The 'misery index' professor says Venezuela's inflation rate is over 500%

Venezuela’s bolivar is collapsing. And as night follows day, Venezuela’s annual implied inflation rate is soaring. Last week, the annual inflation rate broke through the 500% level. It now stands at 510%. When inflation rates are elevated, standard economic theory and reliable empirical techniques allow us to produce accurate inflation estimates. With free market exchange-rate data (usually black-market data), the inflation rate can be calculated.
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A Proposal to Modify Plants Gives G.M.O. Debate New Life

What’s in a name? A lot, if the name is genetically modified organism, or G.M.O., which many people are dead set against. But what if scientists used the precise techniques of today’s molecular biology to give back to plants genes that had long ago been bred out of them? And what if that process were called “rewilding?”
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The True Reason Behind The 40-Hour Work Week And Why We Are Economic Slaves

Economic slavery, or wage slavery, refers to ones total and immediate dependence on wages to survive. Although people throughout history have had to ...
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Avian Flu Outbreak Takes Poultry Producers Into Uncharted Territory

An avian flu outbreak is sweeping across the Midwest at a frightening pace, ravaging chicken and turkey farms and leaving officials stumped about the virus's seemingly unstoppable spread. Now reaching to 15 states, the outbreak has been detected at 174 farms, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Because there's no vaccine, infected and even healthy birds must be killed to try to stop the virus, forcing the killing of 38.9 million birds and counting, the USDA says.
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Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by government subsidies

Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space. And he's built those companies with the help of billions in government subsidies.
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