On Friday, if you were browsing Facebook Marketplace in the Twin Cities area, the following listing might have given you pause.
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Yup. That, according to the post, is a "real human skeleton in a coffin," "just in time for Halloween," and it costs $100. The coffin, which is four feet long and 16 inches wide, has a little window where you can view the bones in all of their spooky glory.
Now, you probably have questions. So did we. But the post vanished quickly on Friday afternoon, so interested parties are out of luck.
Were you following this:
Airlines want more COVID testing to get people flying again - Marketplace
Looking to boost international travel, a global airline industry group says it's working on a system so passengers wouldn’t have to quarantine.
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Nova Safo: That's the tough part, because there are a lot of hurdles to overcome first. There's a language barrier issue — test results have to be understandable across borders. The industry has to be able to do a lot of tests each day. They're looking for a target price of $10 or less per test. And they need the tests to be accurate and fast.
Minority businesses faced more hurdles for PPP, report says - Marketplace
As the White House and Congress continue talks about a new relief bill, we're learning more about how the last one played out — especially when it comes to the Paycheck Protection Program.
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He didn't have a relationship with that bank. He tried applying through another bank. No luck there, either.
"The next layer of cuts unfortunately was gonna probably have to be some administrative layoffs. But thank goodness we weren't in a situation where we had to do that," he said.
TSA screens 1 million air travel passengers, a pandemic record - Marketplace
The Transportation Security Administration announced on Monday that it's screened more than 1 million passengers on a single day — its highest number since March 17 . The TSA also screened more than 6 million passengers last week, its highest weekly volume since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is less than half the number of passengers the TSA screened on the same day last year, when more than 2.6 million passengers went through U.S. checkpoints.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Lithium may fuel a mining revival in England's Cornwall - Marketplace
Some museums are staid, stuffy and static. But not the King Edward Mine Museum in Camborne, Cornwall.
This museum contains a working tin mill that vividly recreates the heyday of tin mining in the county in all its thunderous, clanging and clattering glory. There are half a dozen antiquated machines still operating and providing a feast for the eyes and ears of thousands of tourists every year.
The star exhibit, and the noisiest of all, is the Californian Stamps, so called because it was taken, some time in the late 19 th century, from the Californian gold fields.
There's not enough internet for remote learning to go around - Marketplace
This fall, we’ve been talking every Monday about education and technology during this pandemic, including how access to high-speed internet and devices is just not cutting it across the country. There’s new data on this in our latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll . Thirty percent of parents or guardians with kids learning online and making less than $50,000 say their internet access is inadequate for online school.
In central Virginia's Louisa County, working mom Megan Duck gets her two daughters online for school by getting in the car. They drive to a Wi-Fi spot the school district set up in a strip mall parking lot. There's a small jury-rigged flatbed trailer with solar panels powering electronics that send out an internet signal. From the car, they log on.
Oil prices face a longer recovery as COVID-19 cases climb - Marketplace
A key OPEC committee met Monday to assess production levels amid concerns of weakening economies and oil demand in the world.
The world economy had been recovering in recent months, but now COVID-19 cases are rising in places that happen to use a lot of oil, including India, Brazil and the United States.
“Cases are surging, and a lot of governments are imposing lockdown measures again, reimposing those,” said Herman Wang, who covers OPEC for S&P Global Platts. “So that's going to have an impact on energy demand.”
How COVID-19 changed this U.S. clothing manufacturer - Marketplace
Like many companies, Lefty Production Co. made a big pivot in March. As stay-at-home orders went into effect, the garment and accessories production company remained essential by producing masks, gowns and other personal protective equipment.
Ryssdal: So there you are, in February, March of this year doing your thing, and then the pandemic starts rolling across the globe. What does that do to Lefty Production Co.?
Miller: It was the craziest time. I mean, every time I opened my computer, it was like, "Let’s put a halt on that, you know, can I get my deposit back? We don’t want this stuff anymore." Also, we ultimately sew. And in manufacturing, social distancing is pretty tough. And so while all these orders were canceling, I remember watching the news and New York was saying, "We need masks, we need masks.
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