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A supermarket in New York City is protecting $6 ice cream cartons with bolted plastic tops to prevent shoplifters from stealing them this summer, the New York Post reported. The Upper West Side’s Fairway supermarket is protecting its Häagen-Dazs pints with locked lids that can only be removed with a device at the cash register. The theft prevention lids are to “help maintain the lowest possible cost,” according to a sign posted in the market’s freezer section.

Want to know how the US economy is doing? Forget fancy indicators like the GDP, industrial production and home sales. If you really want to know how consumers feel about our financial situation, just look at mason jar sales. It's true. Throughout history, when people grew worried about their own self-preservation, they eased their fears with food preservation. In wartime, Americans gardened and canned to not only proclaim their patriotism but to ease food rationing. The Energy Crisis of the '70s led to the "Great Canning Lid Shortage of 1975." And in 2020 - a year wracked by COVID-19 fears,...

Teacher reinstated after saying most misbehaving kids are black A teacher in the US has been reinstated despite saying most of the badly behaved students in his school are black. Scott Phelps's statement caused uproar at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, with some critics calling for his dismissal. Mr Phelps was placed on paid leave last week for making the following statement in a letter to his fellow teachers. It read: "Overwhelmingly, the students whose behaviour makes the hallways deafening, who yell out for the teacher and demand immediate attention in class, who cannot seem to stop chatting and...