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Maybe Apple isn’t as green as it claims

Upgrading to an iPhone 12? Apple Inc is happy to take your old phone off your hands. “If it’s in good shape, we’ll help it go to a new owner,” the company promises on the website promoting its trade-in program. “If not, we’ll send it to our recycling partner, so we can save more precious materials and take less from ...

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Ardern’s win is a vote for Covid competence

For governments facing a growing wave of coronavirus cases as fall turns to winter, there’s a stark lesson in the stunning election victory for New Zealand’s incumbent Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: Voters really want their governments to suppress the pandemic. A landslide victory means Ardern could govern with the first outright majority since her country adopted proportional representation in the ...

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Can Trump be trusted on ‘health conditions’

President Donald Trump keeps on saying he’ll protect people with pre-existing health conditions even if he succeeds in killing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — and, oddly enough, quite a few people appear to believe him. Yet he has no plan for an alternative to the ACA, and he hasn’t said how he means to keep his promise to protect ...

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