The company is one of many looking to follow along with promises to resist racism and injustice in 2020. What would the next steps seem like at 2021? In 2020, several organizations vowed to do much more to help reduce racial inequality. In 2021, organizations will be expected to make good on their promises. Gina
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It’s a powerful biological response that has preserved our species for millennia. But now it may be keeping us from pursuing strategies that would improve the environment, the economy, even our own health. So is it time to dial down our disgust reflex? You can help fix things — as Stephen Dubner does in this
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There are buzzer-beaters, and there are buzzer-beaters which take down UConn in the Final Four. “It was just like the shot heard round the planet,” Morgan William says. She’s reminiscing in the car from Orlando, Florida, where she’s been searching for Pepsi in sales for the year. She ’s coming back at the American Airlines
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AP Images/Ringer Example Following two missing seasons to harm, the Nuggets newcomer has snapped the scoring art that made him the top high-school recruit. But until Porter comes of age, the Nuggets are caught between also making a push for its title and developing a potential celebrity. The fans at the Pepsi Center stood Michael
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Out of all of the ads that performed Super Bowl 53, there’s commercial that I woke up thinking about the next morning: Pepsi’s & “More Than OK”. “More Than OK” poked fun at how Pepsi usually requires a back seat to Coke, especially at restaurants. And by with a star-studded throw that included Steve Carell,
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The sight of a cookie had never left me wholeheartedly before this one showed up in my inbox. DoubleTree by Hilton, the hotel series, announced it would send just a tiny oven and a batch of cookie dough into the International Space Station so astronauts could, for the first timebake chocolate-chip cookies in space. The
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In the most recent two-year election cycle, the political industry’s revenue was estimated to be $16 billion. Meanwhile customer satisfaction is at a historic low. (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty) We all know our political system is “broken” — but what if that’s not true? Some say the Republicans and Democrats constitute a wildly successful industry that
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