“The Widest-Awake Place on Earth”: Starbucks is going big. Its new cafe will be a 20,000-square foot store in New York, modeled after the first Roastery-brand store in Seattle. The combined roasting facility and cafe will also teach customers about coffee brewing and bean origins.
In other words, it’s like a children’s museum but meant for jittery adults.
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A man, a plan, a tax dodge, Panama: Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson has resigned after the “Panama Papers” leak of financial documents revealed that he and his wife were among those who had hidden their money in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes.
Icelanders seeking Gunnlaugsson’s resignation didn’t buy his excuse: “We’re a tiny island nation; everything is offshore.”
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1980, 3M introduced its “Post-it Notes,” the pads of note paper with adhesive backing.
3M scientists would have invented the notes sooner, but they kept losing the pieces of paper on which they’d written the formula for the adhesive.
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