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Inside the Xiaomi SU7, the $30K Chinese EV that Ford's CEO loves

Apple rival Xiaomi, the world's third-largest smartphone maker, launched its first car earlier this year in China. The SU7 starts at less than $30,000 and has proved popular, with the 2024 production run selling out in days. Is the SU7 worth the hype? Business Insider takes a closer look at the EV, which is only available in China.

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How Navy cooks are trained to feed 5,000 sailors on aircraft carriers

The Navy trains 3,900 new culinary specialists every year at the Navy Culinary Specialist "A" School at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia. Students learn the importance of sanitation and nutrition, techniques of cookery, small-quantity baking, and culinary math. Their training culminates during Galley Week, when the students spend a week preparing meals in a kitchen environment similar to what they'll find on Navy vessels. Once they graduate, new culinary specialists will spend three to five years preparing meals at sea, deploying for up to nine months at a time.

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Inside day zero at Norwich University — America's oldest private military college

We continue our series covering the first day at America's military colleges and academies with Norwich University in Vermont. The oldest of all of the private US senior military colleges, Norwich University predates Virginia Military Institute and The Citadel and is credited as the birthplace of the military's Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC. While about half of the university's students matriculate as civilians, the other half enlist in the Corps of Cadets, which follows a strict military training regimen. On day zero, incoming freshmen, known as "rooks" (short for "recruits"), say goodbye to their families before being indoctrinated by upperclassmen, known as cadre, into the lifestyle of a Norwich cadet.

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