Candy prices rise as Halloween beckons
WINK, October 28, 2023
Halloween lurks a few days away, but something scarier approaches: candy prices rising.
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BALTIMORE, MD, May 24, 2025 – Most anti-human trafficking efforts focus on breaking up sex sales; however, new research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is turning its attention to where trafficking truly begins – recruitment. Using machine learning to analyze millions of online ads, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered patterns that link deceptive job offers to sex trafficking networks. By mapping the connections between recruitment and sales locations, the study reveals a hidden supply chain – one that can now be exposed and interrupted earlier in the trafficking process.
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Traffic congestion cost trucking a record $94.6 billion in 2021 | I-17 speed limit increasing
Overdrive Online, October 26, 2023
Traffic congestion on U.S. highways added $94.6 billion in costs to the trucking industry in 2021, according to the latest Cost of Congestion study published by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). The cost of congestion in 2021 is the highest level yet recorded through ATRI’s ongoing research initiative.
2023 Daniel H. Wagner Prize Awarded to Intel for Work Streamlining Semiconductor Routing, Resulting in Half a Billion Dollars in Benefits
News Release, October 30, 2023
BALTIMORE, MD, October 30, 2023 – INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has awarded the 2023 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in the Practice of Advanced Analytics and Operations Research to the Decision Engineering team from Intel for their work on the transition of semiconductor products from a single large monolithic chip to an assembly of dozens of small chiplets (aka “disaggregation”). This work has realized more than $500 million in benefits so far. The award was presented at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
Halloween candy prices are downright scary
Consumer Affairs, October 24, 2023
Keeping trick or treaters happy this Halloween is probably going to most more than you think. The cost of candy began to soar in April and prices have yet to come back to earth.
Despite Promises, the New COVID Vaccine Booster Appears Harder to Find. Here's Why.
USA Today, October 23, 2022
Americans eager to get jabbed with the updated COVID-19 vaccine in September were disappointed when they began looking for doses.
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