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pursuits
Author A.S. Byatt, who wrote best-seller 'Possession' and had a beetle named after her, dies at 87LONDON (AP) — British author A.S. Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87.November 17, 2023
industries
PepsiCo Poised to Dethrone Coca-Cola as Top Soda Stock, Jefferies SaysPepsiCo Inc. is on course to take over as the biggest US beverage company by market value, supplanting rival Coca-Cola Co., which has held the spot largely uninterrupted for the better part of two decades.November 13, 2023
business
Xi Jinping’s ‘Old Friends’ From Iowa Get a Dinner InvitationA group of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “old friends” from Iowa have been invited to a dinner he will attend in California next week — 38 years after they welcomed the then-unknown party official for a hog roast, farm tours and a Mississippi River boat ride as they showed him how capitalists do agriculture.November 11, 2023