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‘Olympic condos a hard sell in weak housing market’

Rio De Janeiro / Bloomberg Some of the luxury apartments built in anticipation of the 2016 summer Olympic Games are at risk of being left unsold as the housing market deteriorates in Rio de Janeiro, Mayor Eduardo Paes said in an interview. Developers will have a hard time selling units at the 31- building Olympic Village, known as Ilha Pura, ...

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What happens to ‘Mockingbird’ money after Lee?

Bloomberg Fifty-six years ago, Harper Lee wrote her first novel, which turned out to be one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century. To Kill a Mockingbird’s revelation that in the South—or rather, in America—a black man could lose his life over a crime he clearly didn’t commit, resonates today just as it did when it was first ...

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Calorie on menu counts

Bloomberg Until recently, the sophisticated view about calorie labels in restaurants was one of despair: A series of studies suggested that the practice, required by Obamacare and modeled on what has been done in New York and other cities, just doesn’t succeed in promoting healthy food choices and reducing obesity. But comprehensive new research offers a dramatically different picture. It ...

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