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The Columbus landscape architecture firm MKSK will become employee-owned under a plan announced Wednesday. The firm’s 100 employees will accumulate shares that they can cash in upon retirement. The company, which has seven offices in the region, is the latest of several central Ohio firms to become employee-owned. Employees of the Columbus landscape architecture firm…

Justin Timberlake was grabbed by a celebrity harasser outside of the Louis Vuitton show at Paris Fashion Week. USA TODAY Justin Timberlake isn t crying a river after being targeted by notorious celebrity harasser Vitalii Sediuk on Tuesday – at least not on social media. The musician made light of the prank that took place on the final…

Downtown Escondido is going to look and feel very different in coming years as hundreds of apartments and condominiums come online along Grand Avenue and nearby streets. Three projects recently won the Escondido Planning Commission’s approval and will go before the City Council in the next days. It’s all part of a plan to bring…

Maryland’s oldest wine event returns to the Carroll County Farm Museum with more than 200 wine choices, music and food — not to mention a return to its traditional September calendar position and two-day length — although a familiar face will be missing. After being pushed by inclement weather into mid-October for a one-day event,…

Washington AFP – Jason Greenblatt, a key architect of President Donald Trump s troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, announced his resignation Thursday. His departure places another question mark over the much-delayed initiative, which the White House has touted as the opportunity of the century, but has yet to see the light of day and has been…

President Trump speaks during a Keep America Great campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., last month. Nicholas Kamm AFP President Trump’s latest tariffs on Chinese imports threaten to jeopardize the expansion of the U.S. economy — and as a result, the president’s own political fortunes are at risk. That’s because the latest slate of tariffs that took…

The award-winning actress, director, and producer Lena Dunham is officially gracing the cover of Domino s Fall Issue where we get an inside look at her newly designed West Village apartment in New York City. Lena s taste is eclectic—this we know—and we were able to speak with the mastermind interior designer behind the project,…

New York officials are demanding that banks and other companies with connections to the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma hand over financial records as the state tries to trace where money from opioid sales ended up. The state attorney general’s office this week began issuing subpoenas this week. New York is among states…

Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson on Friday said she is “pro medicine” and “pro science,” after she had defended her past comments about antidepressants and said there’s a difference between “normal” human despair and going through grief. “So let’s state it again. I’m pro medicine. I’m pro science. I’ve never told anyone not to take…

Similarly, while science generates much of our prosperity, scientists and researchers themselves do not sufficiently obsess over how it should be organized. In a recent paper, Pierre Azoulay and co-authors concluded that Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s long-term grants to high-potential scientists made those scientists percent more likely to produce breakthrough work. If this finding is…