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on Thursday as recession fears fed expectations of more policy easing by major central banks, while Turkey’s lira took a 5 per cent beating as pressure ratcheted up on its volatile markets again. Tokyo’s Nikkei lost 1.6 per cent, and the Shanghai Composite 0.9 per cent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.2 per cent. In Europe, London’s FTSE 100, Germany’s DAX and the Paris CAC 40 were up by between 0.5 and 0.9 per cent by about 6:30 a.m. ET. New York futures were up.
: “...this week’s historic spacewalk was cancelled because there weren’t two lady-sized spacesuits ready for the two women who needed them. … It will not surprise any woman who has tried to squeeze into a roller coaster’s unforgiving chest restraints that this world is not designed with our measurements in mind.
Last winter, a 14-year-old Quebec girl drowned after consuming the equivalent of 12 glasses of wine. Athéna Gervais had consumed roughly three cans of a high-alcohol, high-sugar drink called FCKD UP. Now, a coroner’s reportsays we’re overdue for stricter regulation of alcoholic drinks that are aimed at seducing young people: “Twenty years ago, this kind of sleaziness was the norm with cigarette marketing, but we put an end to that nonsense. Is there any reason we shouldn’t do the same with alcoholic drinks that are clearly targeting underage drinkers?”
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