Unemployment Edges Up as Job Growth Surges in February
The Labor Department reports the unemployment rate at 4.4 percent in February with payrolls rising by 275,000 led by construction and retail. Manufacturing shed 50,000 jobs, while service sectors gained 263,000. earnings rose 3.6 percent year over year. The Dow climbed over 200 points as markets absorbed the data.
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Kepler Horoscope Found In UC Santa Cruz Archives
A 400-year-old horoscope written for Hans Hannibal Hutter von Hutterhofen by Johannes Kepler was found in a UC Santa Cruz archive drawer by astronomer Anthony Misch in December while researching solar eclipses. The document bears a birth date in German and a diamond seal, signed by Wilhelm Struve in 1864, with the Lick Observatory later acquiring the horoscope in Germany in the late 1800s.
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New Hampshire votes to approve 4 percent income tax
NH House passes a 4 percent income tax 194 to 190 despite Gov. Shaheen's pledge to veto. Backed to meet a court ordered April 1 school funding overhaul, supporters push for state taxes as an alternative to local property reliance, amid a long standing anti tax ethos.
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Wright Flyer wind tunnel test at Moffett Field
NASA engineers mount a full scale Wright brothers biplane replica in a wind tunnel at Moffett Field California to study stability and control for a 2003 display honoring the 1903 Kitty Hawk flight. Volunteers from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics built the replica using Smithsonian data.
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