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Two teachers bought a $27,000 Italian lake house instead of spending more to move back to the US. Take a look.

Two teachers bought a $27,000 Italian lake house instead of spending more to move back to the US. Take a look.

The couple, who are both English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teachers, met while working in Vietnam in 2014. Bustling Ho Chi Minh City was a far cry from the suburbs of Chicago, where Knighten, 38, grew up.But the move made sense for Knighten."I need to see new things, and my wanderlust needs to be satiated," she told Business Insider.After a few years in Asia, Knighten and Cordier, who is 46, got teaching jobs in the UAE with annual salaries just shy of $70,000."Making $1,500 a month was not going to cut it for the rest of our lives," she said.They decided to save…
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China’s quest to turn the yuan into a global currency isn’t actually driven by domination. It’s about sanctions.

China’s quest to turn the yuan into a global currency isn’t actually driven by domination. It’s about sanctions.

China is on a drive to expand the use of the yuan internationally. But Beijing's near-term intent is more about sanctions protection than currency dominance, according to a researcher."China's strategies to develop an alternative financial system are defensive rather than offensive — at least for now," wrote Zoe Liu, a fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, on Wednesday.Beijing's goal now is to minimize any impact from potential sweeping sanctions from the West in "extreme geopolitical scenarios," such as a military conflict over Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, wrote Liu. Her post was published on…
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The US gave sensitive plans for over 1,000 American weapons to Ukraine, says 2 officials who gave only a cryptic hint as to what they are: report

The US gave sensitive plans for over 1,000 American weapons to Ukraine, says 2 officials who gave only a cryptic hint as to what they are: report

The US has given Ukraine manufacturing plans for more than 1,000 American weapons in hopes of helping Kyiv bolster its own arms production, two officials told The New York Times.The military officials told NYT's John Ismay of the transfer during a reporting visit to a new factory for Howitzer artillery shells near Dallas.According to the NYT, these two officials were William A. LaPlante, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, and Douglas R. Bush, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology.They told the outlet that the US has also translated technical manuals from English to Ukrainian but…
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An ex-California official quietly stole over $1.5 million of water in a heist that lasted decades, but mysteries remain

An ex-California official quietly stole over $1.5 million of water in a heist that lasted decades, but mysteries remain

A former California official pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal more than $1.5 million of water, but the decadeslong water heist case still has more questions than answers. Dennis Falaschi served as the general manager of the Panoche Water District in Fresno and Merced Counties, located in central California, from around 1986 to 2017. The public water district bought water from the federal government and collected drainage water from farms, both of which it then legally sold to farmers in the area, according to a statement issued by the US attorney's office for the Eastern District of California on Tuesday.But…
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Introducing ‘AI & I’

Introducing ‘AI & I’

TLDR: We’re renaming my show, How Do You Use ChatGPT?, to AI & I. It’s a different name but the same great show. Watch the trailer on YouTube or Spotify, and if you haven’t seen or listened to it yet, check out past episodes on YouTube or Spotify. And stay tuned for a new episode next week with bestselling author Steven Berlin Johnson.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox.AI is the best test of what would happen if we all got magical powers.Most of us would ignore them. Except some people are learning to…
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22,000-year-old artifacts could rewrite ancient human history in North America

22,000-year-old artifacts could rewrite ancient human history in North America

North and South America were the last inhabited continents that modern humans settled thousands of years ago, but when and how they reached the Americas remains a mystery."We don't know who these first peoples were," Todd Braje, executive director of the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, told Business Insider. We don't know "where they came from, when they arrived, the technologies that they had available," he added.For many years, archaeologists thought the first humans to set foot in the Americas did so around 13,000 years ago. But more recently, new findings have challenged that theory, pushing…
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