Sheindlin is the highest-earning performer in any TV genre, according to TV Guide Magazine’s annual survey of TV star salaries. She earns $47 million per year for Judge Judy, which translates to just over $900,000 per work day (she reportedly works 52 days per year).
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Less than 50 percent of eligible young voters ages 18 to 29 cast a vote in 2012. 19 percent of all votes cast in 2012 came from young voters. The …
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Bill Moggridge, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York, calls ikea’s aesthetic “global functional minimalism.” He said, “It’s modernist, and it’s very neutral in order to …
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Currently, there is no federal law that mandates employers provide their employees time off to cast their ballots. But the majority of US states have time-off-to-vote laws, also referred to …
The No. 1 man-made contaminant in the world’s oceans is the small but ubiquitous cigarette butt — and it has mostly avoided regulation. That soon could change, if a group …
Neutrons stars are extreme objects that measure between 10 and 20 km across. They have densities of 1017 kg/m3(the Earth has a density of around 5×103 kg/m3 and even white …