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How done is Sprint deal?

Is Sprint Corp. a duck or a rabbit? Bear with us. Earlier, SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son showed investors a bemusing slide with an ambiguous image of a duck and rabbit. If you look at the picture from the right, you see a different critter than the view from the left. In his characteristically gnomic fashion, he was trying ...

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Planting trees is good, but cutting emissions is better

Overall, it’s good news that President Donald Trump has declared he’s in favour of planting trees — it’s perhaps the one thing he has in common with people who care about the long-term future of the planet. Trees not only provide a habitat for wildlife, they can mitigate global warming, to an extent. Promises to plant trees came up at ...

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Yes, coronavirus is more troubling than the flu

Is the world losing its collective mind about coronavirus? So far 1,665 people have died from the infection — all but 45 of them at the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan province, and only two of them outside China. By contrast, some 10,000 people have died this winter from influenza in the US alone, and worldwide between 290,000 and ...

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