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Have You Seen Paul McCartney’s Lost Bass Guitar? Tips Welcome.

Have You Seen Paul McCartney’s Lost Bass Guitar? Tips Welcome.

Before Beatlemania, there was the distinctive Höfner violin bass — the first guitar that Paul McCartney bought after becoming the bassist for the Beatles.That bass can be heard on some of the band’s most famous hits, including “Love Me Do,” “She Loves You,” and “Twist and Shout.”Mr. McCartney picked up the instrument in a Hamburg music store in 1961, and it accompanied the Fab Four as they rocketed to stunning success, becoming the most famous band in the world. But the guitar vanished eight years later.A new campaign is seeking to find the missing instrument, and hundreds of people have…
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Dr. Gabriel Cubillos: Medical tourism in Barbados

Dr. Gabriel Cubillos: Medical tourism in Barbados

What is health or medical tourism? Dr. Gabriel Cubillos has established strategic partnerships that ensure utmost comfort and safety throughout the entire medical tourism journey, starting from your arrival until your departure. International and out-of-town patients can embark on their visit with a sense of readiness and tranquility, knowing that every aspect of their medical tourist package has been meticulously arranged prior to their arrival. The Clínica de Obesidad y Envejecimiento, located in Bogotá, Colombia, has 15 years of experience in serving patients from all over the world. The surgeon Cubillos and his team strive to provide a satisfying experience…
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West Coast Dockworkers Ratify Contract

West Coast Dockworkers Ratify Contract

Dockworkers at ports along the West Coast have ratified a new contract, securing a sweeping agreement set to last six years and expected to ease tensions after cargo shipments were diverted to other regions.The contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association, which operates the terminals, covers 22,000 dockworkers at 29 ports from Los Angeles to Seattle.The contract was approved by 75 percent of members who voted, the union said late Thursday. Details of the agreement were not released publicly, and the union declined to comment. Unionized workers at the ports have average salaries in…
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Burning Man Updates: Attendees May Get to Leave on Monday

Burning Man Updates: Attendees May Get to Leave on Monday

Thousands of people who had spent days stranded at the Burning Man festival in a rain-gorged stew of mud and slop began to pack up their camps on Monday and stream away from the sprawling site in remote northwest Nevada.“Exodus operations have officially begun,” organizers wrote in a post on social media.But it was a mucky, uncertain trek. The ancient lake bed where the annual festival is held was beginning to dry and harden on Monday after days of torrential rain, but drivers said they were still encountering foot-deep puddles and stretches of muddy bog along the five-mile route from…
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Telluride Film Festival Goes On, Despite Anxiety Over Strikes

Telluride Film Festival Goes On, Despite Anxiety Over Strikes

Majestic vistas, burbling brooks and sanguine festival goers are the hallmarks of the Telluride Film Festival, a showcase for the most prestigious films of the year. But no amount of natural beauty can overcome the low-level of anxiety that coursed through this mountain town over Labor Day weekend. With dual strikes raging in Hollywood — the writers’ strike just hit four months — no one wants to appear out of step with these unprecedented times.“It was hell getting here,” Julie Huntsinger, the executive director of the Telluride Film Festival, said in an interview. “There was just so much anxiety and…
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Opinion | The Hidden Risk of Getting Paid in Stock Options

Opinion | The Hidden Risk of Getting Paid in Stock Options

You hear two stories about how private companies raise money to grow. One is that the regulations on them are too restrictive, depriving the nation of innovation and jobs. The other is that the regulations are too loose, harming naïve investors.A new study makes a pretty strong case for the “too loose” story, at least in the case of one class of investors: employees of those private companies. You might not think of employees as investors, but they definitely are if they are paid with stock options, warrants or other forms of equity compensation.Employees can be surprisingly uninformed about the…
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U.S. Added 187,000 Jobs in August and Unemployment Rose to 3.8%

U.S. Added 187,000 Jobs in August and Unemployment Rose to 3.8%

The United States labor market is starting to look a lot like its old self — the one that existed before the pandemic.The Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases have chilled investment, high-flying industries have returned to earth, and workers are staying put in their jobs rather than jumping for higher pay.Employers added 187,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, and the previous two months’ figures were revised downward. That brings the three-month average to 150,000 — a marked slowdown from the 200,000 achieved for 29 consecutive months before that, and slightly lower than the average pace of 163,000…
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How the Khakova Dam Disaster Continues to Devastate Ukraine

How the Khakova Dam Disaster Continues to Devastate Ukraine

Sunset along the Kakhovka Reservoir in central Ukraine, especially in summer, used to be gorgeous: kids played in the shallow water near the shore, men fished and young couples walked under the pine trees as the last traces of sunlight reflected off the water.But after the destruction of a major dam just downriver, that shimmering lake, one of Europe’s biggest, simply disappeared. Now all that remains is a 150-mile-long meadow.For 60-plus years, the Bezhan family ran a fishing business on these shores. They bought boats, nets, freezers and enormous rumbling ice-making machines, and generation after generation made a living off…
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China’s Biggest Homebuilder Fights to Survive as Economic Crisis Deepens

China’s Biggest Homebuilder Fights to Survive as Economic Crisis Deepens

When Country Garden, the biggest developer in China’s increasingly troubled real estate sector, published its annual report in April, the cover design exuded hope: a phoenix spreading its wings.The company said the image showed that China’s economy was “back on track” and that this year would see “growth soaring to new heights.”That was wishful thinking.Shortly after the report’s release, China’s nascent economic recovery lost steam and an already sluggish real estate market started to collapse. At Country Garden, presales of unfinished apartments, a crucial indicator of future revenue, plunged more than 50 percent in June and July, twice the rate…
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