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Netflix has reignited passion for the rom-com

by Jed Kim
Oct 17, 2018
The streaming service's Summer of Love was a big hit with audiences.
"Set It Up" was part of Netflix's Summer of Love, which brought in more than 80 million subscribers.
Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Netflix
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Netflix has reignited passion for the rom-com

by Jed Kim
Oct 17, 2018
The streaming service's Summer of Love was a big hit with audiences.
"Set It Up" was part of Netflix's Summer of Love, which brought in more than 80 million subscribers.
Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Netflix
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Canada's new legal pot sellers need to outcompete the black market

by Emma Jacobs
Oct 16, 2018
Canadians will be able to purchase recreational cannabis starting Oct. 17.
Ian Johnston trims medicinal marijuana plants at Tweed INC. in Smith Falls, Ontario on Dec. 5, 2016.
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Canada's new legal pot sellers need to outcompete the black market

by Emma Jacobs
Oct 16, 2018
Canadians will be able to purchase recreational cannabis starting Oct. 17.
Ian Johnston trims medicinal marijuana plants at Tweed INC. in Smith Falls, Ontario on Dec. 5, 2016.
LARS HAGBERG/AFP/Getty Images
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Brexit

Brexit puts Gibraltar residents between a rock and a hard place

by Stephen Beard
Oct 16, 2018
People in the U.K. territory adjoining Spain voted against Brexit and are now fearful.
The Rock of Gibraltar. 
Courtesy of Mimisse Beard
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Brexit

Brexit puts Gibraltar residents between a rock and a hard place

by Stephen Beard
Oct 16, 2018
People in the U.K. territory adjoining Spain voted against Brexit and are now fearful.
The Rock of Gibraltar. 
Courtesy of Mimisse Beard
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How the deaths of gay men became a commodity

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Oct 15, 2018
A haunting money story from the AIDS epidemic that all started in the pages of gay men's lifestyle magazines.
Magazines require a high grade of coated paper, one that ink will lay well on.
Bennett Purser/Marketplace
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How the deaths of gay men became a commodity

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Oct 15, 2018
A haunting money story from the AIDS epidemic that all started in the pages of gay men's lifestyle magazines.
Magazines require a high grade of coated paper, one that ink will lay well on.
Bennett Purser/Marketplace
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Trade showdown

Trade consultants get a boost from tariff tensions

by Ashley Milne-Tyte
Oct 12, 2018
Anxious importers are flooding the phone lines of trade advisers; one has seen a 20 percent jump in business.
A worker about to move stock at the Medsource Labs warehouse in Chaska, Minnesota.
Laura McCallum/Minnesota Public Radio
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Questlove on "chasing ghosts"

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Oct 11, 2018
"I'm amazed that no one's kicked me out of the pool yet."
“In my mind, it's always, this could end tomorrow. So don't ever sleep,” Questlove says.
Peter Balonon-Rosen/Marketplace
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