Global food prices fell in March to their lowest in almost five years as supplies for most commodities, including cereals and meat, remained robust, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, …
The owner of a fast food restaurant in Austin, Texas shocked his 50 employees by paying their full salaries during a five-month period when the business shut down. Jeff Glover, who has operated the Chick-Fil-A for 15 years, wanted to remodel the building to accommodate more customers, but didn’t want to hurt his workers. So he continued paying them …
When you look back on the history of the world and the many inventions that have come along that have changed things drastically, most people think of things like the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, vaccinations for polio and discoveries of that nature. What you may not realize is that just within the last ten …
Japan hasn’t really got much use out of it’s golf courses in recent years. Nor has its society been too crazy about nuclear energy–especially after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. A “green” source of energy is looking like the way to go. There was a golf boom in the 1980s, but now stretches of golf courses …
There are collectors of all kinds all around the world that love fine pieces of art. It is not unusual at all to see paintings sold of people such as Picasso, Monet or Van Gogh sold for tens of millions of dollars at auction. What many people may not realize is that photographs, another fine …