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Tesla is making changes to the top ranks of its legal team after a year plagued by legal issues. Dane Butswinkas, a 29-year veteran and partner of the Washington D.C. firm Williams & Connolly, has been hired as general counsel, Tesla said in a blog post late Thursday. He will replace outgoing legal chief Todd Maron, who’s held the position since 2013. "After 30 years as a trial lawyer at Williams & Connolly, I would have never imagined joining a company in-house,” Butswinkas said in a press release.

Unfortunately, 2016 didn't make the answer any clearer. With laptop sales steadily declining, no one manufacturer could get everything right. While several very good notebooks launched in the last year, there wasn't One True Laptop you could point to and say "this is the best machine for most people" the way you could about the MacBook Air years ago. Every good notebook seemed to have one or two nagging annoyances — be it missing ports, an awkward design flaw, some overactive fans, or a price that's just too high — that kept it from being great.

By day, go to any park and you’ll see dogs walking their humans and playing fetch. At dusk, cats perching on window sills are increasingly catching our eye. And in the dead of night, children continue to be woken as pet hamsters rattle around in their cages. Our love affair with pets has never been more fully on display. The numbers bear this out. More than 1 billion animals are now being kept as pets around the world, with half of all households having one.

For thousands of years, people have known that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else. “While we teach, we learn,” said the Roman philosopher Seneca. Now scientists are bringing this ancient wisdom up to date, documenting exactly why teaching is such a fruitful way to learn — and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction. Students enlisted to tutor others, these researchers have found, work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively.

The author Georgia Hunter grew up hearing that her granduncle kept a fake penis foreskin on hand in case he had to show proof that he wasn’t Jewish in Warsaw during the Holocaust. As the story was told to Hunter, her relative, an architect named Adam, was so desperate not to be discovered as Jewish that he stuck a bandage on his member with an egg white and water mixture. When a landlord’s wife confronted him, accusing him of hiding his real identity, he dropped his pants in front of her.

Like most African Americans, I come from a family with a history that includes generations of enslavement. But unlike most, the men and women who held my ancestors in bondage were not white, they were Native American—people who were themselves oppressed by the process that led to my family’s freedom. I grew up in Northern California, in a small city called Hayward. My paternal grandparents had moved to the area in the 1950s, joining thousands of other Black families migrating in the midst of the postwar boom.

Although she began her music career in the 1980s, Onwenu’s introduction to acting was in the 1990s in the movie, Joke. She is one of Nigeria’s most respected media and entertainment icons. Onyeka Onwenu Pulse Nigeria Onwenu has featured in numerous Nigerian movies, and in 2006 she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in the movie Widow's Cot.

October 27, 2015 7:27 PM EDT Ever wonder whether you should shake someone’s hand or hug them? Oxford University now has the answer. The British university, in conjunction with Finland’s Aalto University, conducted the largest study on physical contact ever and found that—surprise!—people don’t really want to be touched by strangers anywhere except their hands. But they did find that women are more comfortable with physical contact than men. The researchers polled of over 1300 men and women in five different countries (Britain, Finland, France, Italy and Russia) about where they felt comfortable being touched by partners, friends of the same and opposite sex, family members and strangers.

Wedding invitations also creates excitement as it announces one of the most important days of your life. Since it's your guests' first peek into your wedding day, it's only normal if you make it stand out. Wedding invitations are also about art and expression. You shouldn't just decide with the first design you see because you might eventually get a better one. Regardless of your tight budget, it's possible to make a statement with your wedding invitation.