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Hitting the road

We’ve written before about WNYC’s Your Uncommon Economic Indicators (YUEI for lack of a better term!) project, which asks listeners to send in videos, stories, and photos showing how the economic downturn is being seen on a street-by-street level. This is just one of several projects mapping the economy, but now the technology behind YUEI [...]

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Buzz kill

Just the thought of instant coffee reminds me of the jars of crystallized, icky Folgers and Sanka sitting, untouched, in the cupboard of my grandparents’ kitchen. But Starbucks is making an attempt to revolutionize instant coffee with a blend that it claims is indistinguishable (and cheaper) than their regular Starbucks brew. Americans spend billions of [...]

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