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News
Attacking Teachers From Every Angle Is Not the Way to Improve Schools
Here are just a few of the longstanding problems plaguing American education: a generalized decline in literacy; the faltering international…
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Finance
Federal Reserve to Slow Rate Increases and Offer Hints at Future
Central bankers are still fighting inflation, but are poised to slow to a rate increase of half a percentage point…
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News
Joseph Kittinger, a Record-Setter High in the Skies, Dies at 94
He soared in a balloon to 102,800 feet and, with parachutes, plunged in a free fall for 16 miles, helping…
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Food
Fruitcake Is Delicious, and This Recipe Proves It
What would the holidays be without jokes about fruitcake — that it’s leaden, dry and hard, better used as a…
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Finance
Fed Officials Discussed Slowing Interest Rate Increases ‘Soon’
Federal Reserve officials agreed at their November meeting that it would soon be appropriate to slow interest rate increases, minutes…
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US
Strike by U.C. Academic Workers Continues Into a Second Week
A rally at Sproul Plaza on campus at U.C. Berkeley last week.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York TimesSAN DIEGO — Hundreds of…
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Finance
Ukraine War Continues to Slow Global Growth, New Report Says
Higher inflation and slower growth are the heavy price that the global economy is paying for Russia’s war in Ukraine,…