Tennis is a game with high financial stakes, and in any such game advantages will be seized, in bad faith. So long as no one can verify that you’re lying, you might as well scrape away some competitive advantage.
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Tennis participation is up 22% in the US in 2020. It’s also one of the sports, along with golf, driving fashion for Gen Z.
↩︎ Vogue Business
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Ford’s chief engineer behind the electric F150 is Linda Zhang, who arrived in the US from China when she was eight.
↩︎ The Drive
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According to Alibaba, over 20 million people bought Hanfu last year—traditional Han Chinese costumes—on the shopping site Taobao.
↩︎ Jing Daily
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The average Uber ride costs 40% more than it did a year ago. The average daily rate of an Airbnb increased 35%.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Intricate cityscapes where a small detail shows something dangerous is afoot, in paintings by Thomas Deaton.
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For the workers who pick your online grocery order in stores, the job can push the limits of what humans are capable of doing.
↩︎ The New York Times
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With samples from 60 cities’ mass transit systems, scientists have identified urban microbiomes showing no two cities are alike.
↩︎ ScienceAlert
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The FBI wants USA Today to disclose information on who viewed a certain article in a 35-minute timespan.
↩︎ The Verge
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A sinking ship near Sri Lanka carried 78 metric tons of plastic pellets, which now pose unimaginable environmental consequences.
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