• The photographer Peter Funch photographed the same Manhattan corner during the morning rush hour for 10 years.
• Intrigued by the idea of repetition, he captured photos of the same people on their way to work.
• His book, "42nd and Vanderbilt," is a collection of his work from the series.

About 700,000 people pass through Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal on their way to work every day.

In 2007, the photographer Peter Funch began staking out a corner of the station, at 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, to document those commuters. Funch would snap photos from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., and he would often photograph the same subject twice — sometimes days apart, other times years.

Fascinated by these small moments of human behavior, Funch created a series that explores the seemingly mundane. His unknowing subjects are captured smoking, listening and singing along to music, watching people, and making eye contact with other commuters.

"All these moments are telling small stories about us," he told Business Insider.

His book, "42nd and Vanderbilt," places his subjects side by side. The two photos, taken at different moments, show the similarities in the day-to-day and explore the idea of repetition and ritual. Funch said the photos captured "that trance we are in when going from A to B."

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• McDonald's is bringing back two additional sizes of the Big Mac to its menu. The larger version is called the Grand Mac, and the smaller version is called the Mac Jr. 
• The company announced the additions in a Super Bowl ad highlighting the Big Mac's nostalgic qualities.
• I tried the Grand Mac a year ago and found that it hit a nostalgic sweet spot.

The Macs are back.

In a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl Sunday night, McDonald's announced the return of the Mac Jr., a smaller Big Mac, and the Grand Mac, a larger one. The ad, called "Cherish," was designed to tug on the nostalgia strings, inviting people to fall back in love with the Big Mac.

In fact, I already had — a year ago, in fact, when I first sank my teeth into a Grand Mac, shortly after the sandwich was initially added to menus. 

It all started after I had agreed to go to a whiskey tasting immediately after work last year. What I didn't realize (but should have): tasting means drinking. Four whiskeys on an empty stomach later, my mistake was palpable in all of my senses. I began Googling nearby dinner places while the instructor prattled on about the difference between 15-year and 18-year single malt. (Honestly, I'm still not convinced there's much of one.)

When I noticed the McDonald's a block away, my mind was immediately made up. I had remembered the new Big Mac sizes the company had just released, and I knew what I had to have. There was no better opportunity to devour the largest, the Grand Mac, than right now — with a belly full of whiskey but devoid of food.

I hadn't stepped inside the Golden Arches in a long time. It was exactly how you likely remember it. Spartan, but a little upbeat. I stepped up to the counter, and after some forced pleasantries, I relayed my order.

"Can I get a Grand Big Mac, please?"

I watched the cashier's eyes grow wide as she realized what I asked for. "Oh, gosh," she whispered under her breath. "Anything else?"

Yes, there was something else. I also purchased a four-piece chicken McNugget. I was feeling myself.

A short while later, my number was called; I grabbed my bag and practically ran home.

"You're gonna need two hands," the box reads. I was undaunted. With one bite, I was instantly transported to another time and place. This wasn't just a bigger Big Mac. It was a portal to 15 years ago, when I was smaller and Big Macs just seemed bigger to me than they really are.

I ate a lot of Big Macs as a kid of the '90s, when nutrition was less of a concern to a working single mom than finding time to feed me something I liked. And, man, I loved Big Macs. Truly. Madly. Deeply.

Naturally, I don't eat that many Big Macs anymore. It's impossible to find the same solace I once did. That's why the Grand Mac was so remarkable. For a moment, I truly felt like a kid again.

For McDonald's to continue to transform itself in the modern food-service landscape, it would do well to continue looking to the past, as it did for its Super Bowl commercial. It's these nostalgic, only-'90s-kids-will-get-this experiences that will keep me coming back when I'm looking for comfort.

You can watch McDonald's Super Bowl ad here: 

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• A new study funded by Weight Watchers suggests that your significant other can be your strongest ally — or your worst enemy — when it comes to achieving your weight loss goals.
• The research builds on previous studies not funded by the company that came to similar conclusions.
• Amy Gorin, a professor of behavioral psychology at the University of Connecticut, says her findings represent what she calls "a ripple effect."
• Gorin's study is one of the first of its kind to use a gold standard of scientific research — a randomized, controlled design — to look at couples’ progress.

Eating healthy can feel like torture in the country that's home to the Crunchwrap Supreme.

Dieting is expensive. Working out is time consuming. On top of all that, weight loss can be somewhat of an uphill battle for people with genetic predispositions to obesity.

Yet if your social media feed is anything like mine, it's replete with inspirational images of couples teaming up to lose weight together and killing it.

Enlisting a significant other in your weight loss plans could be a great way to help ensure your success, but only if your partner is just as committed as you are, recent research suggests. Conversely, if they struggle to lose weight, your performance may take a similar dive.

Amy Gorin, a professor of behavioral psychology at the University of Connecticut and the lead author of a new study on these impacts, calls this the "ripple effect."

"When one person changes their behavior, the people around them change," Gorin said in a statement.

The study was funded by Weight Watchers, which merits some skepticism. Still, it's one of the first of its kind to use a randomized, controlled design in its study approach, which lends some heft to its findings.

It is also not the first study to come to these types of conclusions.

A 2008 study Gorin published in the International Journal of Obesity (which did not receive Weight Watchers money) reached a similar finding. That paper was actually the first to use the term "ripple effect" to describe how social networks could impact weight loss.

For her most recent study, which involved 130 overweight or obese couples age 25 or older, Gorin and her team found that when one member of a couple lost weight, it significantly raised the chances that the other partner would too — even if that partner wasn't actively participating in any weight loss program. Similarly, when one partner struggled to slim down, it made it more likely for the other person to have problems as well.

To come to these conclusions, Gorin split the couples into two groups. In one group, one partner joined Weight Watchers. For six months, they got in-person counseling and a host of online tools to help them lose weight. In the other group, one partner got only a printed handout on healthy eating, exercise, and weight-control strategies.

After six months, a third of the untreated partners in the study lost 3% or more of their initial body weight, a figure that dietitians consider a sizeable benefit. These people participated in no weight loss program at all; only their significant others did. Half of them used Weight Watchers, the other half used an approach of their own.

In other words, it didn't matter if the partner who was trying to lose weight participated in Weight Watchers or not. All that mattered was that they were trying to lose weight.

"Whether the patient works with their healthcare provider, joins a community-based, lifestyle approach like Weight Watchers, or tries to lose weight on their own, their new healthy behaviors can benefit others in their lives," Gorin said.

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• A cure for baldness might lie in a chemical used to cook McDonald's fries, a team of Japanese scientists says.
• Researchers at Yokohama National University used dimethylpolysiloxane to produce follicles that could grow hair when transplanted into mice.
• They are hopeful the method could be used to treat hair loss in humans.
• However, the chemical was used as a base to grow the follicles — it doesn't trigger hair growth on its own.

Scientists in Japan say that a cure for baldness might be found in using a chemical also used to cook McDonald's fries.

Researchers at Yokohama National University found that when they used the chemical dimethylpolysiloxane —found in silicone, which is added to oil to cook french fries at the fast-food restaurant, according to the Evening Standard— they could mass produce hair follicles that could grow hair when transplanted into mice.

Initial tests suggest this method could also be used to treat hair loss in humans, they say.

In a paper published in the journal Biomaterials, the scientists said they were able to generate up to 5,000 hair follicle germs simultaneously — something described in a press release as "one of the more challenging obstacles to hair regenerative medicine."

Mice that had these follicles transplanted onto their backs and scalps started to sprout new black hairs in these areas, the researchers said.

And according to Junji Fukuda, a professor at the university who helped write the study, the use of the chemical was crucial to successfully producing the hair follicle germs.

"The key for the mass production of HFGs was a choice of substrate materials for culture vessel," Fukuda said in the press release. "We used oxygen-permeable dimethylpolysiloxane at the bottom of culture vessel, and it worked very well."

While the chemical was apparently helpful for the experiment, it does not on its own trigger hair growth. So eating more McDonald's fries is unlikely to cause your hair to grow.

Fukuda's team is hopeful that this method can eventually be used to treat hair loss in humans.

"This simple method is very robust and promising," Fukuda said. "We hope that this technique will improve human hair regenerative therapy to treat hair loss such as androgenic alopecia."

Fukuda added: "In fact, we have preliminary data that suggests human HFG formation using human keratinocytes and dermal papilla cells."

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• Uma Thurman told The New York Times she was injured on the set of "Kill Bill" after director Quentin Tarantino allegedly made her do a car stunt.
• The actress provided video to the Times of her crashing into a tree, which led to her injuring her knees and suffering a concussion, she said.
• Producer Rebecca Green told Business Insider the accident would never have happened if the movie's producer had stepped up and stopped Thurman from driving the car.

On Saturday, The New York Times published a piece in which Uma Thurman alleged that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her, adding her voice to the #MeToo movement.

But Thurman didn't just call out Weinstein. In a shocking twist, she also spoke out against the director she'll be forever linked to: Quentin Tarantino.

Halfway through the Times story, the narrative shifts from Weinstein to Tarantino, and how the director — who made Thurman a star in his movie, "Pulp Fiction" — allegedly forced her, on the set of "Kill Bill," to do a scene she wanted a stunt driver to do instead. It led to the actress being injured.

Business Insider spoke to producers in the industry who said what Thurman suffered could (and should) have been stopped.

Thurman thought Tarantino 'tried to kill me'

In a shot that appears towards the end of "Kill Bill," The Bride (Thurman) speeds down a dirt road on her way to kill Bill (David Carradine). The shot is taken from the back of the car, so you see the back of The Bride's head driving the convertible.

According to the Times story, Thurman insisted that a stunt driver do the shot, as she didn't feel comfortable driving.

“Quentin came in my trailer and didn’t like to hear 'no,' like any director,” Thurman said in the story. “He was furious because I’d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ‘I promise you the car is fine. It’s a straight piece of road ... Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won’t blow the right way and I’ll make you do it again.’ But that was a deathbox that I was in. The seat wasn’t screwed down properly. It was a sand road and it was not a straight road.” 

Thurman provided the Times with video from the set of her driving the car. It shows her losing control of the car at one point and crashing into a tree. Her body is thrown violently and she sits there in a daze until the crew, including Tarantino, show up moments later. After getting out of the car and standing on her own, she is carried by a man off camera as she holds her head.

“The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” Thurman told the Times. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again,’” she said. “When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large massive egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.” 

The accident could have been avoided if the producer stepped up

According to numerous producers Business Insider spoke to after the Times ran the Thurman story, this incident could have been avoided, and directors often have to be convinced to rethink their vision for the sake of the health and wellbeing of the cast and crew.

When a director is blinded by his or her vision, it's the responsibility of the producer, in this case Lawrence Bender (who has produced all of Tarantino's films), the first assistant director (on this movie it was William Paul Clark), or the stunt coordinator (Keith Adams), to make sure what goes forward is done in a safe manner.  

“At some point it became acceptable for directors to push the safety boundaries on set in order to achieve their vision and I believe it's the producer’s responsibility to intervene when this happens to ensure the safety of all involved,” producer Rebecca Green ("It Follows," "I'll See You in My Dreams") told Business Insider.

“Of course telling your director they can’t have what they want often results in he or she being pissed off at you, but if you can’t tolerate an angry director for the sake of your crew’s safety, then you shouldn’t be producing. What’s more frustrating is that unlike most of us, Tarantino had a budget that afforded him stunt doubles, so there was no reason to pressure Uma into driving the car herself. And what’s even more ridiculous is that the shot was of the back of her head so did she really need to drive the car herself?”

According to entertainment lawyer Domenic Romano, founder and managing attorney of Romano Law, the statute of limitations has likely expired on Thurman taking any action against Tarantino, Bender, or Miramax for the injuries she sustained on set. However, this shocking revelation may hurt Tarantino's reputation in Hollywood.

"This might make people think twice about working with him," Romano told Business Insider.

Though directors have always been seen as the dictators on set, whose word is law, Thurman's revelation has shown that sometimes someone has to step in to be the voice of reason, and not be afraid of upsetting the almighty director.

"The question to ask is, where was Lawrence Bender?" Green said. "On my sets, the assistant director knows that the camera can’t roll on a stunt unless a producer is on set, and had I known Uma was not comfortable doing the stunt herself, I would have stepped in and said 'no means no,' and the stunt double would have been used. Either Lawrence Bender wasn’t there, he didn't care how Uma felt, or he was too worried about pissing off Tarantino.”

On Monday, Thurman posted a portion of the footage she gave the Times on Instagram and included in the caption that "Quentin Tarantino was deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event, and gave me the footage years later so I could expose it and let it see the light of day."

However, she did blame some, including Bender. 

"The cover up after the fact is unforgivable," Thurman wrote in her post. "For this I hold Lawrence Bender, ["Kill Bill" executive producer] E. Bennett Walsh, and the notorious Harvey Weinstein solely responsible."

Business Insider contacted Tarantino, Bender, Clark, Adams, and Walsh for comment but did not receive a response.

See a portion of the footage Thurman posted on Instagram on Monday:

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• Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin is a favorite to earn more glory at this year's Pyeongchang Games.

• Shiffrin won gold in Sochi in 2014, at the age of 18.

• The competitor was the youngest person to win an Olympic gold medal in the slalom.

• She could become the first American woman to win three skiing medals at one Olympics, The Denver Post reported.

Mikaela Shiffrin wants you to know that she's not a superhero.

The 22-year-old alpine skier became the youngest person to win an Olympic gold medal in the slalom at the Sochi Games. She's long been labeled as the next Lindsey Vonn, as The New York Times reported back in 2014. She routinely puts herself through grueling workouts that leave her feeling like she might pass out, according to The New Yorker. She's currently the reigning overall World Cup Champion, which she snagged at St. Moritz in 2017.

And now, she's on the verge of potentially making history at the Pyeongchang Games. She could become the first American woman to win three skiing medals at one Olympics, The Denver Post reported.

"How I got here is a crazy path that probably could not be replicated," she told The New York Times. "But it doesn't have to be replicated. I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realize there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go."

Shiffrin may not be a superhero, but she's already accomplished some out-of-this-world athletic feats over the course of her life.

Here's a look back at her career:

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Shiffrin's parents — anesthesiologist Jeff and former nurse Eileen — are both avid skiers, too. They introduced Shiffrin and her brother Taylor to the sport at the early age. "They had us walking around the living room in these tiny, little, plastic Mickey Mouse skis that you just latched onto snow boots," Taylor told the New York Post.

Source: The New York Post, The New Yorker

All that early exposure paid off. When the Vail, Colorado native was five, she wowed skiing instructors with her technique. They ended up declaring they didn't know which training group to put her in, Sports Illustrated reported. So Shiffrin continued to train with her parents.

Source: Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker

She ultimately attended Burke Mountain Academy, a Vermont prep school for young ski racers. By 2012, she had made the US ski team.

Source: Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker

• Photographer David de Rueda has captured various abandoned Soviet spaces.
• His favorite place he's captured is a hangar in the steppe of Kazakhstan that holds two space shuttles from the USSR's once-active Buran program.
• The space shuttles have not been touched in nearly 30 years.

Photographer David de Rueda has never been afraid to venture into uncharted territory. His photography has made him explore abandoned radar stations, power plants, factories, and even two rarely seen relics of the Soviet space race.

The two shuttles, both a part of the Buran project (buran means blizzard in Russian), are located inside the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Once a part of the USSR's plans to take the Cold War into space, the shuttles were designed similarly to NASA's space shuttles, and meant for carrying cargo into space.

The shuttles have sat for nearly 30 years, untouched and left abandoned. When de Rueda first documented the hangars that house the shuttles back in 2015, he was mesmerized.

"The first trip was such an adventure, I didn't even imagine I'd do it again," he told Business Insider. "But almost a year later, I was back. This time, the plan was to explore a second hangar, housing Energia-M, a rocket test prototype. It meant we would spend more time on site."

Although this wasn't his first time going inside the hangars, de Rueda said it wasn't easier the second time around. "These abandoned structures are off-limits," he said.

Take a look at the eerie photos he captured below.

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Simply getting to the hangars was an adventure in itself. "We had to go by ourselves," de Rueda said. "180 kilometers off-road driving in the Kazakh steppe and 45 kilometers of walking in a highly restricted area."

Because the hangars are located near active facilities, de Rueda had to be extra careful. "The Kazakh steppe is a hostile environment, especially during winter. We had to walk long hours in the cold night on muddy terrain, trying to remain unseen," he said.

During his three visits there between 2015 and 2017, de Rueda claimed security had gotten tighter. "Now the shuttles are watched even more carefully."

• Supermodel Christie Brinkley has been sticking to a plant-based diet for decades.
• Her daily meal plan reflects wisdom from the Mediterranean diet, an eating regimen that US News and World Report recently named the #1 healthiest diet.
• A growing body of research suggests that meal plans like the Mediterranean diet are beneficial for the body and brain because they are rich in key nutrients that fill you up, support healthy digestion, and protect against disease.

Supermodel Christie Brinkley tastes the rainbow.

For lunch, the 64-year-old fills her plate with emerald leafy greens, scarlet tomatoes, and golden bell peppers flecked with crunchy nuts and stripes of creamy avocado, she recently told Shape.com. Breakfast is comprised of earthy whole grains topped with fruit and walnuts. For dinner, Brinkley makes pasta and veggies topped with grilled fish.

"For many, many, many years I've always said I go for as many colors as possible in a day," Brinkley said.

The meal plan, a common-sense approach to eating that researchers increasingly portray as the healthiest diet for overall wellness, tracks closely with two recently-recognized healthy diets: the Mediterranean diet and the plant-based diet.

Here's why Brinkley's eating plan is so healthy and how to start easily incorporating it into your life without breaking the bank.

Plant-based diets are good for the body and brain

Eating plans that center around vegetables and whole grains reign supreme for health, according to a growing body of evidence. Research suggests these diets may be helpful for losing weight, staying lean, and keeping the mind sharp. These eating plans have also been tied to a reduced risk of several diseases including heart disease and breast cancer.

Plant-based diets are "good for the environment, your heart, your weight, and your overall health," according to a US News and World Report on the best eating plans.

Brinkley's plan contains many elements of the Mediterranean diet, a plan that is rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, and olive oil, and also incorporates fish and seafood. The Mediterranean diet also slashes intake of red meat, processed foods, poultry, and dairy.

Dietitians and clinicians say the approach is a great way to fuel the body. The plan's leafy greens provide key vitamins and minerals that are needed for healthy skin, hair, and nails; whole grains support good digestion; fish and nuts provide protein to maintain muscle and keep energy levels steady.

The Mediterranean diet is also rich in several ingredients that may be critical to a healthy mind.

Two types of healthy fat — monounsaturated and omega-3 fatty acids — are staples of the plan, as well as several antioxidants found in berries and dark chocolate. Previous studies have found a link between both of these ingredients and a reduced risk of dementia as well as higher cognitive performance. Research has also suggested that two other Mediterranean ingredients — leafy greens and berries — could help protect against a phenomenon called neurodegeneration which often characterizes diseases including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

There are plenty of ways to start eating like Brinkley

While sticking to an eating plan like the Mediterranean diet might sound costly or inconvenient, there are plenty of ways to start implementing it in your life relatively cheaply and easily. And it doesn't mean you can't occasionally indulge. Brinkley's favorite desserts are chocolate chip ice cream and dark chocolate.

"I believe in treating yourself occasionally," she said.

To start, dietitians advise adding variety to your diet in the form of different kinds of fresh vegetables and whole grains. Where you can, add spinach, kale, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, or any other leafy green to your plate. The specific type of vegetable matters much less than whether or not you like it, so feel free to experiment until you find something you can start eating on the regular.

Cara Anselmo, a nutritionist and dietitian at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, told Business Insider that she frequently advises her clients to ramp up their intake of plant-based foods and cut back on red meat and refined carbohydrates like white bread.

"When you look at overall dietary patterns it's a more whole-foods, plant-based diet that tends to be healthier in terms of less disease risk," Anselmo said.

Incorporating healthy fats like nuts and seeds into your meal plan is important, too.

"Walnuts provide healthy fats, fiber, and protein, and that trifecta really gets you nourished and sustained for hours and prevents energy crashes," registered dietitian and nutritionist Andy Bellatti told Business Insider.

"One quick way to add extra fiber to your day: sprinkle chia, hemp, or ground flax over whatever you're eating for a boost," Bellatti said.

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• Any diet that's too high in one ingredient is unhealthy, but recent research has focused on sugar because it's become so ubiquitous in our food.
• When you eat a high-carb or high-sugar meal that isn't rounded off with protein or fiber, it can cause blood sugar levels to spike, leading to energy crashes and cravings later.
• Devices called continuous glucose monitors can help someone visualize their sugar intake — and a startup with $6 million from Fitbit may soon simplify it with a new tool.

Sugar lurks in countless unsuspecting foods, including ketchup, granola bars, salad dressings, and yogurt. A glass of orange juice has roughly the same amount of sugar as a can of Sprite. Foods such as white rice and white bread may as well be sugar given the effect they have on your body.

"If you go out to fast-food places and you watch them prepare these meals, they'll put on the order of three cups of rice on the plate — so somewhere around 120 grams of carbs — before any real food has hit the plate," Edward Damiano, a diabetes researcher and professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, told Business Insider. "That's massive: That's twice the carb load recommended for one person in a single meal."

It means that even when most of us think we're eating healthy, we may be consuming lots of carbohydrates that could send our blood-sugar levels through the roof.

This can lead to energy crashes, mood swings and, ironically, sugar cravings. Somestudies also suggest that high-carb, high-sugar diets are strongly tied to weight gain.

These negative outcomes have led a handful of tech companies and self-proclaimed "biohackers" in Silicon Valley to work on a tool that could reveal the problems with our diets by showing us where the sugar is hiding. The devices would also show us how to balance out a high-carb portion of a meal, such as a serving of rice, with ingredients that help round out blood sugar levels, such as proteins and fats like those from fish, meat, eggs, or nuts.

"Of course we know that eating less sugar is good, but how do you know you're actually doing that?" Ashwin Pushpala, the founder of San Francisco-based health and tech startup Sano, told Business Insider.

Pushpala's company is aiming to make a device called a continuous glucose monitor, or CGM, that could be used by the general population to get a sense of the direct impact of a meal or a diet on their body.

A device that shows you wear the sugar is hiding

Today, millions of people with diabetes use CGMs to keep their blood sugar levels from falling dangerously high or low — but the devices are generally too expensive and painful for healthy people to adopt. All current CGMs involve wedging a quarter-inch-long needle underneath the skin and wearing the device all day. To set most of them up, users also have to prick their finger so the device can be calibrated with glucose readings. Diabetics who don't use CGMs can track their glucose the old-fashioned way — with regular finger pricks and a glucose meter. Those who use this approach draw blood from their fingers between 40,000 and 100,000 times throughout a lifetime.

While he was developing prototypes of his device for Sano, Pushpala pricked his own fingers roughly 3,000 times.

"You'd think you'd get used to it and eventually it would be OK," Pushpala said. "It is never OK."

Pushpala's device gets rid of the needle by replacing it with 400 tiny, painless ones arranged in a small square. Wearing the device, he said, feels like a stiff band-aid with sandpaper on one side.

Ideally, the information from the device would be fed to a smartwatch or smartphone so that users could get a visual read-out of how a meal or a diet is impacting them. Over a few weeks or months of wearing the device, Pushpala envisions people using its data like a set of what he called "guardrails." When something sends blood sugar levels skyrocketing, that's a sign to cut back on that food. On the other hand, when a food keeps glucose levels steady, that's a sign that the food was a good, nutritious bet.

"So one day you have a slice of cake that you assume is really unhealthy. Perhaps you look at your readings and find out actually it wasn't that bad. Great, you can eat that again," Pushpala said. On the other hand, maybe you eat your favorite lunch — a big salad that you thought was really good for you — and your glucose readings tell you it was actually full of sugar. "OK, now I know that meal isn't as healthy as I thought it was."

Damiano sees a device like this having a huge amount of potential for people who want to eat healthier, as well as for professional athletes who spend hours trying to ensure they're getting the right nutrients to fuel them for an event.

"People without diabetes who wear a CGM will learn several things. First, they'll learn what macronutrients [things like protein, fat, and carbohydrates] do to their blood sugar," Damiano said. "They'll also learn that blood sugar should be stable. Your body wants things to be flat — so you should keep them flat."

Sugar lurks in some surprising places

The foods that send blood sugar levels spiking may surprise some people.

The obvious offenders are foods like bagels and white rice, which can contain on the order of 40 to 60 grams of refined carbohydrates per serving. Those carbs get processed much like sugar in the body.

"A bagel, which so many people love, that’s the enemy in the room here," Damiano said. "I tell people just stay away from that — it’s bad for you. It’s lovely to look at, but don’t ever eat it."

But other foods, like smoothies and even seemingly healthy items from fast-food chains, can also be loaded with sweets.

A 16-ounce "Orange Dream Machine" smoothie from Jamba Juice contains 71 grams of sugar— 21 grams more than the daily limit of 50 grams recommended by the World Health Organization. A large side of baked beans from Kentucky Fried Chicken has nearly the same amount, at 61 grams, and a Wendy's apple pecan chicken salad contains 40 grams of sugar, or 80% of the recommended daily limit.

Even foods portrayed as healthy can contain surprising amounts of sugar. A single serving of several popular brands of low-fat yogurt contain anywhere from 24-28 grams of sugar — roughly half the recommended daily limit, while a Honey Nut Cheerio's Milk and Cereal granola bar contains 16 grams.

Alcohol is another often overlooked source of sugar and carbs. A 10-ounce margarita packs roughly 42 grams of sugar, while a piña colada contains about 21 grams.

Pushpala and Damiano envision healthy people using CGMs to see how these carb-heavy foods affect their glucose readings and compare that information against what their readings look like after they eat a healthier, more balanced meal.

"They'll start looking at foods differently," Damiano said.

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• Marvel finally gave Black Panther his own movie, and it was worth the wait.
• It's a movie that has lots of action, but also has a deep story about family, heritage, and community.
• Michael B. Jordan elevates the movie from good to great.

Like “Wonder Woman” last year, “Black Panther” is a project that fans have been waiting decades to see. And just like “Wonder Woman,” it was worth the wait.

The latest superhero movie brought into Marvel’s MCU may be its most meaningful yet. In a time when audiences want different stories told by (and focused on) people who rarely get the spotlight, “Black Panther” comes at the perfect time.

Director Ryan Coogler — who showed with “Creed” that he could work within the confines of an existing franchise and still give us something special — uses the tools and resources that come with Marvel Studios to build out a movie that isn’t just filled with action (and sometimes has a Bond film vibe), but also brings the audience on an emotional journey about family and community.

We meet up with T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) following the death of his father (which happened in “Captain America: Civil War”) and his return to Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. Immediately, we are thrust into the beauty, technology, and heritage that is Wakanda, a nation located in Africa that Black Panther rules over, and is technologically advanced due to the use of a special material called Vibranium.

The fact that Wakanda is hidden has protected its people, but T’Challa knows that the tech they possess could help those outside its walls. Should he let his kingdom be more open to the outside world? It’s something he ponders until he learns that Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), now sporting an arm cannon since “Age of Ultron,” is causing trouble with the Vibranium he possesses. When T’Challa investigates with his new and improved Black Panther suit, it’s revealed that Klaue has teamed with Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), who has a shocking backstory related to T’Challa and his family that could affect everything T’Challa is trying to do.

Honestly, there are moments in this movie that get really deep. This is far from a Marvel movie with constant action. There’s a solid story in “Black Panther” (written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole), which might get tiresome for some audiences. But what it does is help with delving into the story arc of Killmonger, and bolsters Jordan's standout villain performance.

Jordan plays a Killmonger fueled with hate and emptiness — we won’t give away why — but he also delivers it with a swagger that’s just a joy to watch. The movie takes off more in story and viewing enjoyment whenever Jordan is on screen.

Perhaps the biggest strength of “Black Panther” is its character development. This is particularly true for T’Challa’s sassy sister/tech wiz Shuri (Letitia Wright), and the head of his royal guard, Okoye (Danai Gurira), who are major scene-stealers.

Lupita Nyong’o, Daniel Kaluuya, Martin Freeman, Forest Whitaker, and a small (but important) role for Sterling K. Brown, round out a really strong ensemble.

And the movie isn’t all serious, just so you know.

There are a lot of lighthearted moments — from Shuri making fun of T’Challa’s footwear, to Serkis’ over-the-top antics as Klaue (honestly, it’s nice to see Serkis get to perform on screen once in a while in his own skin and not motion-capture form), to Martin Freeman as CIA operative Everett Ross who is used perfectly as the vessel for any soft-handed jokes about race (as he’s the only white guy on Black Panther’s team).

“Black Panther” opens in theaters February 16.

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• The 2018 Winter Olympics kick off Friday, February 9, in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
• The Winter Olympics were first held in France in 1924.
• Over the years, the Winter Olympics have been filled with incredible athletic feats, as well as mishaps, scandals, and tragedies. 

Every four years, the Winter Olympics come around to give athletes all over the world a chance at sporting glory.

Throughout the years, Olympic audiences have seen not only incredible athletic feats, but more than a few mishaps, scandals, and tragedies. 

From the underdog story of the 1988 Jamaican bobsled team — which inspired the film, "Cool Runnings" — to the America's "Forgotten Miracle" hockey win over Canada in the 1960 games, there's been no shortage of drama.

With the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics kicking off Friday, February 9, we take a look back at the iconic Olympic moments that have come before it. 

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The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. This is the US team during the opening ceremonies.

Eleven-year-old Sonja Henie stands with world champion figure skater Gilles Grafstrom at the 1924 Games. Gramstrom won the Olympic gold while Hennie would go on to win the gold in 1928, 1932, and 1936.

The first Winter Olympics held in the United States was at Lake Placid in 1932. Then-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt shakes hands with American Olympic captain J.A. Stevens.

• Quentin Tarantino defended filmmaker Roman Polanski in a 2003 interview with Howard Stern by saying the 13-year-old girl with whom Polanski had unlawful sex "was down with it."
• Tarantino became the subject of controversy on Saturday when actress Uma Thurman said in a New York Times story that Tarantino made her do a dangerous car stunt in "Kill Bill" that injured her.
• In the same story, Thurman alleged that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her.
• Thurman also said Tarantino "confronted" Weinstein over the alleged assault and made the producer apologize to her. 
• Tarantino told the Times in October, as the list of Weinstein sexual assault allegations grew, that he "knew enough to do more than I did" about Weinstein.

Quentin Tarantino — whom actress Uma Thurman recently said made her do a dangerous car stunt in "Kill Bill" that injured her — has become the subject of another controversy over comments he gave in a 2003 interview on The Howard Stern Show, surfaced by Jezebel on Monday. 

In the interview, Tarantino defended filmmaker Roman Polanski, who in 1977 pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor — Samantha Gailey, who was 13 years old at the time.

Howard Stern asked Tarantino why Hollywood still embraced Polanski, "this mad man, this director who raped a 13-year-old."

"He didn’t rape a 13-year-old," Tarantino said in response. "It was statutory rape. ... He had sex with a minor. That’s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down — it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can’t throw the word rape around. It’s like throwing the word 'racist' around. It doesn’t apply to everything people use it for."

When the show's co-host Robin Quivers added that Polanski was charged with giving drugs to Gailey, who "didn't want to have" sex with Polanski, Tarantino becomes more adamant in his defense: 

Tarantino: No, that was not the case at all. She wanted to have it and dated the guy and —

Quivers: She was 13!

Tarantino: And by the way, we’re talking about America’s morals, not talking about the morals in Europe and everything.

Stern: Wait a minute. If you have sex with a 13-year-old girl and you’re a grown man, you know that that’s wrong.

Quivers: ... giving her booze and pills ...

Tarantino: Look, she was down with it.

In October 2017, Tarantino spoke out on the subject of his longtime producer Harvey Weinstein's growing list of sexual assault allegations by telling The New York Times that he "knew enough to do more than I did. There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn't secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things."

In a Times story on Saturday, Thurman alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted her. She also said that Tarantino "confronted" Weinstein over the alleged assault and made Weinstein apologize to her. 

Tarantino's representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Listen to the audio of the Howard Stern interview below:

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• The actress Christie Brinkley reportedly told Porter magazine that President Donald Trump once tried to get her to join him on his private jet while he was married to Ivana Trump in the 1980s.
• Brinkley reportedly said she declined Trump's offer and described Trump, at the time, as "flirty," "smarmy," and "out chasing skirts."

The actress Christie Brinkley said in a recent interview with Porter magazine (via Page Six) that President Donald Trump once asked her to join him on his private jet — while he was married to his first wife, Ivana, in the 1980s and, as Brinkley described, "out chasing skirts."

Brinkley said the interaction with Trump occurred when she was dating Billy Joel in the early '80s.

"My phone rings and this guy goes, 'Hey, Christie, it's The Donald.' I say, 'Hi, Billy,' because I was dating Billy [Joel] at the time," Brinkley told Porter, according to Page Six. "But the voice goes, 'No, no. It's The Donald! … I hear you're leaving for Aspen tomorrow. I am too. I'd like to give you a ride on my private jet.'"

She continued: "So I reply, 'Thank you, but I have already arranged my flights.' I knew he was married, and there he was asking me to go on his plane. He was kind of flirty about it. He was out chasing skirts."

Brinkley reportedly added that she had "always found him smarmy" and described having dinner with him:

"I'm done being discreet. I've had dinner with him. I've always found him smarmy, as in, 'Watch out, part the waves, the rich people are coming, everything is gold, solid 24-carat gold, the best, the greatest, nobody else has more gold on anything in their house than me. Did you bring a brush? Let's gold-leaf it!'"

A White House representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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• Google is buying the Chelsea Market building in New York City for $2 billion, according to a report by The Real Deal.
• Google is already the building's largest tenant, with about 400,000 square feet of office space. 
• The company has not yet confirmed whether the building's food-market vendors will be pushed out.

Google just got a little closer to dominating the New York real estate market — in Chelsea, at least.

The tech company is buying the Chelsea Market building for $2 billion, The Real Deal reported. Google is already the largest tenant in the building, leasing about 400,000 square feet of office space. The entire building offers about 1.2 million square feet of space.

Chelsea Market isn't your typical office building. Its most attractive feature is a massive food market on the first floor, offering high-quality food to tourists and locals alike.

Google has not confirmed whether the food market will be kept running or whether vendors will be pushed out once their leases with the current owner, Jamestown, expire. Google did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Take a look at these photos which show what it's like to shop in the food market:

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Chelsea Market is located in a hip neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan.

The structure itself is huge, taking up the entire block. It totals 1.2 million square feet of office space.

Source: Crain's New York, The Real Deal

Google's New York City headquarters are right across the street at 111 Eighth Avenue, in the former Port Authority building. The search giant reportedly paid $1.8 billion for the building in 2010, and it's so big that its elevators can accommodate 18-wheeler trucks.

Source: Wired

In San Francisco, seas of people staring down at their phones are as much a fixture of the city as trolley cars and fog. But a few nights out of the year, 1,300 people put away their digital devices and sprawl across the floor of Grace Cathedral church for a meditative "sound bath."

The crowd lies on yoga mats and blankets, as a small orchestra of instruments — gongs, crystal bowls, a harp, and a didgeridoo — provides a 90-minute soundtrack for meditation. The idea is that the sounds give participants something to focus on, allowing any racing thoughts to peter out. Sound Meditation SF has organized six events in the city since 2016, and each sold out.

I recently attended a Sound Healing Symphony, organized by Sound Meditation SF, to see what the buzz is about. Here's what it was like.

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I don't practice meditation regularly. I don't even have Headspace on my phone.

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But I arrived at Grace Cathedral on a Friday night with an open mind. Simona Asinovski, a former tech worker and cofounder of Sound Meditation SF, told me not to be intimidated.

Asinovski said she practiced yoga for at least six years before she was able to meditate for even 10 minutes. "Meditation is very challenging," Asinovski said. "It's just fundamentally hard to be still and be present with what is — which is usually a lot of stuff."

But a sound meditation helps beginners tap into a meditative state by allowing them to focus on the music instead of the "little stories that we tell ourselves," Asinovski said.

• Netflix's content boss, Ted Sarandos, singled out "Everything Sucks!" as a Netflix original series that "people should keep an eye" in an earnings call last month.
• The 90s-set, coming-of-age comedy series premieres February 16 on Netflix.
• Watch the first official trailer for the series below.

In an earnings call last month, Netflix's head of content Ted Sarandos listed a few upcoming Netflix originals that audiences should look forward to, including the big-budget, sci-fi series "Altered Carbon," and the comedy series "Everything Sucks!"

Sarandos singled out "Everything Sucks!" as a "sleeper hit that people should keep an eye on."

"Everything Sucks!" is a coming-of-age comedy series that "follows two groups of high school misfits," an A/V club and a drama club, "who collide in 1996 Oregon," according to Netflix's description of the show. 

Variety described the show's plot as centering on two friends who "join forces to make a movie."

"Everything Sucks!" premieres February 16 on Netflix. The series is led by the up-and-coming teen actors Peyton Kennedy and Jahi Winston. 

Netflix released the first official trailer for the series on Tuesday. It features references to Alanis Morisette, a song from The Cranberries, and other '90s-related nostalgia and humor.

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• The film hasn't been released yet, but "Black Panther" is currently the best-reviewed Marvel Studios film, with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score from 50 early reviews.
• Critics praise the film for delivering a worthy villain played by Michael B. Jordan, and a sense of identity rarely seen in super hero movies.

"Black Panther" is still over a week away from its official release, but critics are already praising it as Marvel's best.

It currently sits at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes out of 50 reviews, and critics especially love Michael B. Jordan's villain, Erik Killmonger.

When "Wonder Woman" opened to praise and box-office success last year, many said it was a step in the right direction for super hero movies to break barriers. The same could be said for Marvel's "Black Panther," the upcoming new entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that opens February 16 nationwide.

The character of Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman, was first introduced on-screen in 2016's "Captain America: Civil War" and will be seen again in May in "Avengers: Infinity War." But before that, Black Panther, also known as T'Challa — king of a fictional African nation named Wakanda — will receive the big-screen solo treatment from director Ryan Coogler ("Fruitvale Station," "Creed").

It marks the first movie in the MCU to focus on a black main character with a nearly all-black cast, something that critics have praised along with its politically charged story that "has something to say."

In Business Insider's review, Jason Guerrasio said that it is "the rare Marvel movie that makes you care about the villain."

Below are samples of some of the responses to the film so far:

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"Not to minimize the alien death funnels of the Avengers films, but the conflicts threatened here hit frighteningly close to home."

David Edelstein, Vulture.

"'Black Panther' is different. It’s the first one of these films that flows with a genuine sense of culture and identity, memory and musicality."

David Ehrlich, Indiewire.

"One of the most dramatic — and relevant — storylines the film explores is whether or not advanced societies owe it to the global community to share their discoveries rather than keep their bounty to themselves."

Alonso Duralde, The Wrap

• As a quality inspector for Tesla, Jeff Hickethier is responsible for test-driving Teslas as the electric vehicles roll off the assembly line.
• His job is to carefully study every car for flaws that might compromise safety or displease an owner.
• He's been doing this for years and now teaches new hires how to be as obsessive about quality as he is.

How's this for a great job? As a quality inspector for Tesla, Jeff Hickethier wakes up before dawn, jumps into his BMW 3-Series, nods toward the Audi R8 supercar that he saves for weekends, and sets off for Tesla's test track in Fremont, California, across the San Francisco Bay from Fog City.

Shaped like a tied shoelace, the test track consists of two straightaways with banked loops at either end. The Diablo Range looms to the east, and the view to the west is consumed by Tesla's 5.3 million-square-foot factory, where assembly lines are churning out the Model S and the Model X — and will soon begin rolling the Model 3 in significant numbers from an innovative, highly automated new assembly line.

He arrives 15 minutes before 6 a.m., parks in the carmaker's increasingly crowded lot, and heads for the track, a grayish-tan piece of aged tarmac that has been around since Tesla's factory was jointly owned by General Motors and Toyota in the 1980s.

After some early-morning meetings and maybe a quick chat with an engineer, Hickethier, a wiry 50-year-old with full-sleeve tattoos and the laid-back draw of a Bay Area native, will spend the rest of his day outside, supervising the testing of Tesla vehicles as they emerge from the factory.

"Most companies do sample testing," he says. "They take one out of every couple thousand cars."

Tesla tests at a far higher rate. "There are so many quality checks it's ridiculous," he adds.

'We're taught to focus on every little thing'

Hickethier, who has been with Tesla for six years, and a half dozen guys who work for him, put vehicles through a series of tests that are designed to identify critical flaws.

"What we're checking for are items like alignment and brakes," he said, sitting in the driver's seat of a brand-new Model S P100D. "We're taught to focus on every little thing."

Hickethier knows cars. Thirty years ago he started an aftermarket parts service out of his parents' house. After bouncing around a few mom-and-pop shops, he joined a larger operation, ascended to management, saw that company close, moved to another operation, and eventually landed at Tesla, where rather than dealing with the public he drives freshly assembled electric cars and fusses over every detail.

"The things that I find are usually not going to be anything that a customer would complain about," he says.

But Hickethier complains about them. "Sometimes I'm too critical," he adds. "They'll tell me, 'Nobody's complaining — pull yourself back!'"

For Hickethier, there is no such thing as too critical. Nor pulling back. He's the last line of defense for a carmaker that is under constant scrutiny, and he's not going to take a pass on a rattle or creak just because he has been at this long enough to have hypertuned his senses to problems that probably won't amount to much.

There's a Spartan aspect to Hickethier's cheerful flintiness and dedication to what looks a lot like perfection. Tesla isn't up against financial collapse, as it was in 2008; more than 100,000 vehicles were delivered in 2017, and Hickethier helped make sure they were as good as Tesla could make them.

Tesla is still facing steep odds

But like King Leonidas, facing down a huge Persian army, Hickethier serves a Tesla that is winning despite overwhelming odds against it. Perfection is victory. You can't work for the first new American car company to come along in decades, surrounded by powerful and far more experienced global competitors, and take it easy on quality control.

For Hickethier, handing the stress is simply what he does. He runs each vehicle through a gantlet of challenges, ranging from strips of bumps and rusty chunks of metal to locate lose components or suspension flaws to speed runs around the track to double-check that a Tesla can live up to its reputation for velocity. All the while, he's scrutinizing the car for the types of nearly invisible flaws that he has spent years calling out. He may have a trainee sitting next to him, learning the ropes, or he may be in the passenger seat, passing on his obsessiveness to the next generation.

It's not an easy job. But it is disproportionately important — the only other Tesla employee who might spend as much time picking the cars apart is CEO Elon Musk, also the company's product architect and known for sleeping at his factory when Tesla has been in "production hell."

That's not something that has gone to Hickethier's head. But he does grasp his good fortune. Not that he makes a big deal out of it. Asked whether he has the coolest job at Tesla, he offers a matter-of-fact verdict.

"Probably," he says, with a grin and a shrug. "Yeah, probably."

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• Quentin Tarantino said in an interview with Deadline that he made Harvey Weinstein apologizing to Uma Thurman a condition of making their 2003 film, "Kill Bill."
• Thurman told The New York Times on Saturday that Tarantino "confronted" Weinstein over Thurman's allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein, and that she later received a "half-assed apology" from Weinstein.
• Weinstein's representatives told the Times that Weinstein "immediately apologized" to Thurman "after misreading her signals."

In an interview with Deadline published Monday, Quentin Tarantino said he made Harvey Weinstein apologize to Uma Thurman for an incident that she has alleged amounted to sexual assault. Tarantino said the apology was a condition of making their 2003 film "Kill Bill," which Weinstein produced. 

Thurman told The New York Times, in an interview published this weekend, that Tarantino "confronted Harvey" over Weinstein's alleged misconduct, and that Weinstein gave her a "half-assed apology" afterward. (Weinstein's representatives told the Times that Weinstein "immediately apologized" to Thurman "after misreading her signals.")

Tarantino detailed to Deadline how he confronted Weinstein after Thurman told him about the alleged assault:

"That was when I realized there was a pattern, in Harvey’s luring and pushing attacks. So I made Harvey apologize to Uma. In the Maureen Dowd [Times] article it says, that is when Quentin confronted Harvey? Well, my confrontation was saying, you have to go to Uma. This happened. You have to apologize to her and she has to accept your apology, if we’re going to do 'Kill Bill' together."

The "Kill Bill" director said that Weinstein tried to "deemphasize" aspects of the incident when confronted on it:

"In this case, I wasn't giving Harvey the benefit of the doubt. I knew he was lying, that everything Uma was saying, was the truth. When he tried to wriggle out of it, and how things actually happened, I never bought his story. I said, I don’t believe you. I believe her. And if you want to do 'Kill Bill,' you need to make this right."

In the Times story Saturday, Thurman also said Tarantino made her do a dangerous car stunt in "Kill Bill" that injured her.

Tarantino told Deadline that the stunt was "the biggest regret of my life."

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• Education secretary Betsy DeVos reportedly has a net worth close to $1.3 billion.
• DeVos shares the fortune with her husband, Richard DeVos Jr., the son of billionaire Amway cofounder Richard DeVos.
• The DeVos family reportedly owns a fleet of 12 private jets and four helicopters.

US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is currently the richest member of President Trump's cabinet.

Her husband, Richard DeVos Jr., is part-heir to his father's $5.1 billion fortune, which he earned as cofounder of marketing giant Amway. The company does $8.8 billion in sales annually.

DeVos was confirmed as education secretary under President Trump in February 2017, and has since faced criticism for strongly supporting school voucher programs and charter schools. She sent her four children to private school.

DeVos has also been met with disapproval from the public for her billionaire status. Her security detail alone costs about $1 million a month, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

But amid reports claiming other cabinet members fly private at the expense of American taxpayers, DeVos' team has made it clear she travels on her own dollar.

According to Forbes, the DeVos family owns a fleet of 12 private jets — 1 Boeing Business Jet, 5 Gulfstream G550's, 1 Gulfstream G450, 2 Bombardier Challenger 350's, 3 Cessna Citation CJ4's — and four helicopters.

"Secretary DeVos travels on personally-owned aircraft, accompanied by her security detail and whenever possible, additional support staff, at zero cost to US taxpayers," her spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill said in September.

"The secretary neither seeks, nor accepts, any reimbursement for her flights, nor for any additional official travel-related expenses, such as lodging and per diem, even though she is entitled to such reimbursement under government travel regulations."

DeVos' predecessor, John B. King Jr., spent a total of $39,000 on commercial flights over his year-long tenure.

A number of Trump's other cabinet members and advisers own private jets as well, including Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, according to Forbes.

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