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Amazon Gambles on $4B Push Into America’s Rural Areas, May Soon Carry More Parcels Than USPS

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

In many rural areas, America’s online shoppers can wait half a week or more for deliveries. But Amazon started a $4 billion “rural delivery push” last year, reports Bloomberg, and has now cut delivery times to under 24 hours for 1 in 5 rural and small-town households, with 48-hour delivery to 62% of rural households.The payoff could be huge. Rural shoppers in the US collectively spend $1...

The Guardian view on peptides: Robert F Kennedy Jr would leave public health policy to the hucksters | Editorial

Today at 18:25 PM, via The Guardian

The US health secretary says he is a big fan of peptides. Many are promising drugs, but the only way to know their utility is proper clinical trials

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is a chaotic person, but his Make America Healthy Again (Maha) agenda tends to follow a predictable logic. Large-scale, mandatory public health interventions – such as childhood vaccine requirements...

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