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Tracking the NFL playoff picture: Updated chances to clinch open spots, win division titles ESPN49ers-Bears and other Week 17 games that will have huge impact on playoff races - The Athletic The New York TimesNFL Playoff Picture 2025: Updated AFC and NFC standings, bracket, tiebreakers for Week 17 Yahoo SportsNFL playoff picture: Postseason probabilities entering Week 17 of the 2025 season NFL.com
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Silver and Gold Prices Rally; Stocks Hold Near Records The Wall Street JournalGold is set for its best year since Jimmy Carter was president CNNWhy gold went through the roof this year—and why its price may have been raised permanently FortuneGold and Silver Smash Records Again as Rally Gathers Momentum Yahoo FinanceGold hits record high on safe-haven demand, Fed rate-cut bets Reuters
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Snow Begins Falling in New York City, Threatening Havoc The New York TimesBlog: Parts of NY get 8 inches of snow, while NYC and NJ to get lower totals NBC New YorkHow much snow from winter storm 12/26/25: Snowfall totals from NYC, NY, NJ and CT ABC7 New York
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Silver rises 9% to hit fresh record high ReutersSilver's Runaway Rally Sweeps Up Amateur Investors The Wall Street JournalGold is set for its best year since Jimmy Carter was president CNNPrice Of Silver Hits All-Time High ForbesGold and Silver Smash Records Again as Rally Gathers Momentum Yahoo Finance
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There are 50 new tech billionaires in 2025 because of AI, including the seven co-founders of Anthropic.
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All too often, organizations invest in large technology systems but don't see widespread employee adoption, in part because these tools don't reflect how employees actually work. At the same time, workers are clamoring for tools that will help them do their jobs better.
More than half (58%) of respondents to a 2022 Domo survey of employees in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand said their need for technology has increased in the past five years, but their organizations' tech tools aren't meeting those needs. Some 60% of the 3,000 respondents, a mix of desk-based and deskless workers, said they could be more productive and do better work with better technology tools. And 62% said better access to useful tech would make them happier at work.
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EARLIER this month Peking University played host to perhaps the grandest global gathering ever of the higher-education business. Senior figures from the world's most famous universities—Harvard and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge among them—enjoyed or endured a two-hour opening ceremony followed by a packed programme of mandatory cultural events interspersed with speeches lauding "Xi Jinping thought". The party was thrown to celebrate Peking University's 120th birthday—and, less explicitly, China's success in a race that started 20 years ago.
In May 1998 Jiang Zemin, China's president at the time, announced Project 985, named for the year and the month. Its purpose was to create world-class universities. Nian Cai Liu, a professor of polymeric materials science and engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, got swept up in this initiative. "I asked myself many questions, including: what is the definition of and criteria for a world-class university? What are the positions...Continue reading
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