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  • After I got into Yale, I couldn't shake the thought that it was because of affirmative action.
  • Eventually, I accepted that I would never know for sure and that I should move forward.
  • I now do everything I can, including overworking myself, to prove I belong. 

This has been a bit of a secret, but when I applied to Yale, I chose to apply as an African American



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There are some affordable homes in Las Vegas, Nevada right now, as prices have fallen over the last year.
  • Las Vegas home prices are finally starting to drop, following a pandemic real estate boom.
  • The median listing home price as of August 2023 was $456,848, down 2.7% from August 2022.
  • There are two and three-bedroom homes available for well under $300,000.

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Grab the limited edition topaz orange colorway of the Dyson Airwrap multi-styler Complete Long for just $499.99, down from $599.99, at Dyson as of Oct. 26. That's a 17% discount.



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Jaguar electric vehicles.
  • More and more electric vehicles are coming even as demand slows.
  • Dealers say selling EVs is getting a lot harder.
  • Some of the new models in the pipeline might appeal more to the new demographic of EV shopper.

Just as selling electric cars is getting a whole lot harder, a slew of them are slated to hit the market.

Industry analysts tend to agree that more than 50 new



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BP Pulse charging stations that now include Tesla Supercharger hardware inside. | Image: BP

BP is buying $100 million of Supercharger hardware from Tesla, making it the first company to purchase DC fast-charging equipment from the automaker for use in a third-party charging network. The sale is going to the oil and gas conglomerate’s EV charging business known as BP Pulse



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Armed Israel Defence Forces soldiers.
  • Stocks will rally, rather than plunge, if Israel sends troops into Gaza, according to one market veteran.
  • "That would be a signal to the market that it's going to be very sharp, very quick, and then we're going to be at the end of it," Tim Anderson said Wednesday.
  • Anderson's view clashes with the consensus on Wall Street, where investors are



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Linksys has released the Velop Pro 7, its newest Wi-Fi 7 mesh router, which it says is so smart, it can fix itself — and it’s convinced enough of this that it plans to phase out its router management app. Like the Velops before it, you can buy Linksys’ new kit one at a time or in two- or- three-pack configurations. The router costs



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  • Meta Platforms stock fell about 3% on Thursday after the company's third-quarter earnings report.
  • The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp reported a continued rebound in advertising revenue that beat analyst estimates.
  • Here's how Wall Street analysts are reacting to Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report.

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