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A New Generation Of Zoomers | Getentrepreneurial.com

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Can’t stop confusing your Zoomers and millennials? When it comes to hiring, the differences matter. According to Pew Research, millennials were born between 1981 and 1996 which makes them 24 to 39 years old in 2020; Zoomers (or Zers or Generation Z) were born starting in 1997, so the oldest turn 23 this year. This all means your potential hiring pool will change as Gen Z  is 24 percent of the global workforce this year, according to research by Manpower.

Although, you may think these successive generations aren’t all that different, their experiences, needs and actions are diverse enough to pay attention before you hire them. Here’s what you should know.

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Starbucks China adds Beyond Meat, Omnipork and Oatly options to the menu | CNN

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Fans of Starbucks in China are about to get a whole lot more oat milk lattes and meatless pastas.

Starbucks (SBUX) is teaming up with oat milk maker Oatly and plant-based protein companies Beyond Meat (BYND) and Omnipork in mainland China, offering more options free of meat or animal products at a time when a growing number of Chinese consumers are seeking choices they perceive to be healthier.

Starting Tuesday, 4,200 Starbucks stores in China will be serving vegetarian-friendly items such as oat milk matcha lattes, lasagne made with Beyond Meat’s beef product and Asian noodle salads with Omnipork.

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Baby leatherback sea turtles thriving due to COVID-19 beach restrictions | Live Science

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Baby leatherback sea turtles are doing better than they have in years, now that many humans are opting (or being ordered) to stay off beaches due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On one beach in Thailand, for instance, environmentalists have found 11 leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) nests since November, the largest number of nests found there in the past two decades, according to The Guardian.

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Escaped circus zebra runs loose through suburban Paris streets | UPI.com

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Surprised witnesses in a Paris suburb captured video of a zebra running loose through the town alongside a duo of horses.

The zebra and horses were caught on video running through the streets of Champigny-sur-Marne after escaping from an outdoor enclosure at the Badin circus in nearby Ormesson-sur-Marne.

The owner of the Badin circus said the animals escaped when their enclosure was left unlocked. He said the zebra and horses were only on the loose for about 15 minutes before being recaptured.

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With $23 million for its plant-based, liquid meals, Kate Farms pushes into consumer and healthcare | TechCrunch

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Kate Farms, the supplier of a plant-based liquid meal formula used by hospitals and healthcare providers around the country as a nutritional supplement for patients who cannot process solid foods, has raised $23 million in a round of funding.

The new money will allow the company to ramp up its production as it looks to meet significant new demand from both consumers and healthcare providers, according to chairman and chief executive, Brett Matthews.

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The FDA Asks Companies to Stop Selling Ranitidine | WIRED

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With its promise of taming the ravages of stomach acid, ranitidine—best known under the brand name Zantac—was counted among the agents of pharmaceutical salvation, the enduring and reliable drugs that treat intractable diseases and make daily life more tolerable. In 1987, Zantac became the most-prescribed drug in the world.

But last week ranitidine was essentially erased from the US market. The US Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers to withdraw ranitidine products, both in prescription and over-the-counter forms, because of an “impurity” in the pharmaceutical compound. Overtime or in the presence of heat, ranitidine can form unacceptable levels of a probable carcinogen known as N-nitrosodimethylamine, or NDMA, the agency determined.

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How Lisa Su brought AMD from the brink of bankruptcy to the top of its game | CNN

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Even though the company was bleeding money, laden with debt and staring down a potential bankruptcy, becoming chief executive of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices was a dream job for Lisa Su.

“When you grow up as a tech person — and I spent my career in semiconductors — there aren’t that many large US semiconductor companies. So I was really excited to become CEO,” Su told CNN Business. She liked that she could walk around a Best Buy and pick up a laptop, knowing that the microchip or processor her company built was powering it.

Not everyone would have been so enthusiastic. When Su took the helm of AMD in 2014, its stock was heading toward an all-time low.

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Here’s Everything That’s Happened With Your Student Loans In 2 Weeks | Forbes

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There’s so much happening right now with your student loans.

Here’s what you need to know – and what to do about it.

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In case you missed it, there have been major changes regarding your student loans. President Donald Trump signed the CARES Act, which includes a $2 trillion stimulus package in response to the Coronavirus health emergency. Among other benefits, the CARES Act has major implications for the way you pay your student loans, think about student loan forgiveness, and manage your money during Coronavirus. Fortunately, let’s make it easy for you and put all the updates in one place so you’re up to speed. Here are the major changes:

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