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Weekend Words: Imbecile
This week, Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, invoked the Fifth Amendment before a House committee investigating the company's fiftyfold price increase of a decades-old drug.
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Weekend Words: Goose
Writing in The New York Times, James Poniewozik boils down Donald Trump's standoff with Fox News to a matter of eggs and geese.
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Weekend Words: Drop
Look out! Oil prices and the world's financial markets continue to drop.
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Weekend Words: Mars
Farewell to Ziggy, Weird and Gilly, and The Spiders from Mars.
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Weekend Words: Boom
This week, North Korea went boom and China went bust.
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Weekend Words: Chocolate
Last week, a food blogger called into question a famous Brooklyn chocolate maker's "bean-to-bar" reputation.
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Weekend Words: 2015
For the last Weekend Words of the year, Hyperallergic Weekend invited its contributors to compose a brief meditation, declaration, exhortation or snatch of verse as a way of saying goodbye to 2015.
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Weekend Words: Star
The greatly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the series, opened this weekend.
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Weekend Words: Gun
The New York Times reports that fear of restrictive gun laws causes a spike in gun sales.
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Weekend Words: Climate
This week is Climate Change Week.
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Weekend Words: Train
Today is the 100th birthday of Billy (“Take the A Train”) Strayhorn.
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Weekend Words: Property
This week the Brooklyn Museum played host to the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit despite criticism from anti-gentrification activists.