Author: KnowledgeHippo
A handful of new lounges opened by credit card issuers, including Capital One and American Express, have recently landed at airports across the United States, promising luxurious retreats for select travelers waiting for their flights. At La Guardia Airport, caviar service will be available for pre-order. At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, travelers can get free massages, while naps are available at Denver International Airport. In addition to amenities, the new lounges offer an atmosphere reminiscent of a luxury hotel lobby, both in interior design and scale, and can accommodate several hundred people at a time.”The lounges have definitely gotten busier,…
Taro Akebono, a Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped revive the sport’s popularity in the 1990s, has died in Tokyo. He was 54.He died of heart failure in early April while being treated at a Tokyo hospital, according to a family statement released by the United States military in Japan on Thursday.When he became Japan’s 64th yokozuna, or grand champion sumo wrestler, in 1993, he was the first foreign-born wrestler to achieve the sport’s highest title in its 300-year modern history. He won a total of 11 major championships, and his success set…
America seemed headed for an economic fairy tale ending at the end of 2023. The painfully rapid inflation that had started in 2021 appeared to have cooled seriously, and economic growth had begun to gradually moderate following a series of rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.However, 2024 brought a number of surprises: The economy is growing rapidly, job gains are unexpectedly strong, and progress on inflation shows signs of stalling. This could lead to a very different conclusion.Instead of the “soft landing” that many economists thought was underway — a situation in which inflation slows as growth eases gently without…
Follow our live updates on the total solar eclipse.On February 26, 1998, hundreds of people gathered to watch a total solar eclipse.The crowd gasped as the moon devoured the sun. They ran and ran as the feathery streams of the top of the solar atmosphere burst into view. Applause erupted moments later when the sun peeked behind the lunar surface.”He was saved again by the laws of celestial engineering,” an event host said in a video recording of scenes from Aruba, one of the places where the eclipse crossed the earth.Except the crowd wasn’t actually in Aruba. They were thousands…
Overall, the health needs of women in Bangladesh are second only to those of men. “In our male-dominated society, when a man has a problem, it requires immediate attention, but women can wait,” she said.But the effects of vision loss can be particularly severe for women, who are often responsible for earning extra income for their families in addition to childcare and housework, Ms Mahjabeen said. “When it takes more time to sew and clean, or when you can’t sort out all the stones from the rice, in some households it leads to domestic violence,” he said.VisionSpring distributes more than…
Still a little giddy from the magical moments of totality during Monday’s solar eclipse? Or did clouds roll in to block your view? Maybe you just didn’t make it to the path of wholeness this time. No matter what, the question now is “Where and when will it happen again?””People who haven’t seen it before, the first words out of their mouths after the set is over are, ‘I’ve got to see another one, that’s incredible, that’s incredible.’ That’s when you get addicted to these things and end up traveling to wherever the next one is,” said Joseph Rao, an…
As Eid al-Fitr approached, Amani Abu Awda’s four children began asking her for new clothes and toys – festive items that Muslims usually buy to celebrate the holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.But Ms Abu Awda, a mother of four from northern Gaza, is now displaced with her family in a tent in the southern city of Rafah, far from any sense of celebration and the home that once hosted large family gatherings.”My God, I couldn’t get anything from them because of the high prices,” he said on Saturday, days before most Muslims around the…
To the Editor:Re “Shortcuts ‘Paint a Picture of Boeing Cedding Quality'” (front page, March 31):The sad story of Boeing unfortunately seems to be a metaphor for this country. We have quality issues throughout our infrastructure. we have world-class institutions that strive to maintain standards. we have political brands that are discredited because of extreme positions taken by certain leaders.Boeing — before it was taken over by management brought in through the 1997 takeover of McDonnell Douglas — was by far the best airplane maker in the world. However, new management in the post-merger period emphasized return on investment and profitability…
As Miguel A. Cardona, the education secretary, appeared before lawmakers Wednesday to make his agency’s case for funding next year, members of both parties had something else on their minds: this year’s chaotic admissions process college.Republicans peppered him with questions about the ill-fated new Free Application for Federal Student Aid form, which has derailed college admissions this year. Several of them questioned whether the agency had diverted resources away from the project in its pursuit of canceling student debt.”There is nothing more important right now in the Department of Education,” Mr. Cardona told the House Appropriations Committee on the aid…
After the birth of her second child, Chelsea Becker took a year’s unpaid leave from her full-time job as a flight attendant. After watching a video on TikTok, he found a side hustle: training artificial intelligence models for a website called Data Annotation Tech.For a few hours each day, Ms. Becker, 33, who lives in Schwenksville, Pa., sat at her laptop and interacted with an AI-powered chatbot. For each hour of work, he was paid from 20 to 40 dollars. From December to March, he earned over $10,000.The explosion of AI technology has taken a more sophisticated turn into a…