Month: August 2024

From Paris to Los Angeles: How the city is preparing for the 2028 Olympics

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Tom Cruise carries the Olympic flag during the 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony at the Stade de France, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

By JAIMIE DING and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s Los Angeles’ turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA’s local business — Tom Cruise — who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, plane and parachute kicked off the countdown to 2028.

The city will become the third in the world to host the games three times as it adds to the storied years of 1932 and 1984. Here’s a look forward and back in time at the Olympics in LA. Continue reading

America’s Favorite Hobbies Revealed: Our Ten Favorite Ways To Spend Free Time

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Americans spend more than five hours every day on leisure activities and hobbies, ranking second only to sleep in the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2023 time use survey.

Though we all love leisure time, we don’t spend it the same way. Some pastimes are far more popular than others.

America’s Favorite Hobbies

A Statista survey of more than 60,000 Americans determined which hobbies we love the most. Discover something new to try as we explore America’s favorite pastimes. Because respondents could choose more than one hobby, reported percentages surpassed 100. Continue reading

Is college worth it? Poll finds only 36% of Americans have confidence in higher education

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FILE – In this May 13, 2018, file photo, new graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony in Piscataway Township, N.J. Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost of college, with most saying they feel the U.S. higher education system is headed in the “wrong direction,” according to a new poll. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press

Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost of college, with most saying they feel the U.S. higher education system is headed in the “wrong direction,” according to a new poll.

Overall, only 36% of adults say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, according to the report released Monday by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation. That confidence level has declined steadily from 57% in 2015.

Some of the same opinions have been reflected in declining enrollment as colleges contend with the effects of the student debt crisis, concerns about the high cost of tuition and political debates over how they teach about race and other topics. Continue reading

Beyond Cornflakes: The Changing Breakfast Landscape

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By Maike Corbett | Wealth of Geeks undefined

Conventional wisdom says breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but a 2022 Statista report indicates only 35% of Americans actually stop to eat the meal each morning. The reasons for this vary. Some people say they’re not hungry in the mornings, while others feel they don’t have time to make something and eat it.

Is breakfast that important? The science doesn’t support an answer either way. It comes down to individuals. Some people can’t stand the thought of food when they first wake up. Some say they can’t get along without breakfast.

 

 

What Is Breakfast, Anyway?

The word ” breakfast ” has been around since the 15th century. Those who went to Catholic Mass each morning didn’t eat until after the service, so their first meal broke their fast from the night before. The word eventually came to mean the morning meal in general. Continue reading