Month: November 2019

There’s nothing like being there in person. The Japanese sport of sumo has been around for more than 1,000 years. It was originally performed to entertain Shinto deities and then became a court entertainment before gaining popularity among the general public in the Edo era in the 17th and 18th centuries. Even in modern Japan,
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Customers exit an Abercrombie & Fitch store in San Francisco, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Abercrombie & Fitch fell short of quarterly same-store sales estimates on Tuesday, hit by sluggish demand for the teen apparel retailer’s surfwear-themed Hollister clothing line. Sales at established stores were flat in the third quarter ended
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China successfully launched satellites to space last week but a shower of rocket debris after the launch crushed buildings in the Sichuan province, captured in a video shared widely on social media. Before the government launched a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Friday evening, it warned residents with a
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(Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Getty Images Residential real estate seems to have regained health of late, and in more ways than one. On the macro side, activity, after months of stagnation and decline, has turned upward again. Alone, this change has lifted the specter of recession. Still more encouraging, lower-priced housing has begun to appreciate
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Melanie Whelan is resigning from her position as chief executive officer of SoulCycle, effective Tuesday, the company told CNBC Make It. Whelan is also vacating her position as the director on the company’s board. Both sides felt it was time for a leadership transition, according to a person briefed on the decision who asked not to
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The terrace and the view of this extraordinary New York home. Denis Vlasov for Sotheby’s International Realty Broadway icons Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green lived at the Beresford at 211 Central Park West for nearly six decades. Green, a multiple Tony-Award winning lyricist and book writer, wrote the iconic film Singin’ In The Rain; Newman was
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