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Neighborhood News: Visibility Through Absence
New York magazine

Neighborhood News: Visibility Through Absence

As the deportation raids begin, the Day Without Immigrants tries to show what's at stake.

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February 10-23, 2025
The Less-Glamorous Side of Collecting: Special Storage, Insurance and Fakes
The Wall Street Journal

The Less-Glamorous Side of Collecting: Special Storage, Insurance and Fakes

Many people begin collections without realizing the costs and commitment required to preserve value in their holdings

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4 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Sonos Finally Hits The Hard Reset Button
The Wall Street Journal

Sonos Finally Hits The Hard Reset Button

Sonos Chief Executive Tom Conrad's job would be hard enough if he just had to sell expensive speakers. Selling the idea that his speaker company can finally master the software game is a heavier lift.

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Bold Lines on the Block In Bed-Stuy, a deconstructivist tries his hand at affordable housing.
New York magazine

Bold Lines on the Block In Bed-Stuy, a deconstructivist tries his hand at affordable housing.

WALK DOWN AN ordinary, blah-colored stretch of Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, past the dispiriting bulk of Woodhull Hospital and the brown-brick boxes of the Sumner Houses, and you'll come upon an incongruous apparition, a giant sugar cube that's been carved, beveled, and knocked askew.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
Global Tongue A class in Iran probes English's transformative and oppressive powers.
New York magazine

Global Tongue A class in Iran probes English's transformative and oppressive powers.

SOMETIMES I THINK you can only speak one language,\" says a character in Sanaz Toossi's English.

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February 10-23, 2025
Lonely Islands The epic melancholy of Caspar David Friedrich.
New York magazine

Lonely Islands The epic melancholy of Caspar David Friedrich.

YOU KNOW THE WORK of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don't think you do.

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3 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
The Making of an All-Time Oscars Villain
New York magazine

The Making of an All-Time Oscars Villain

How Emilia Pérez-then its star, Karla Sofía Gascónbecame this awards season's most hated nominee.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
The Reluctant Romantic
New York magazine

The Reluctant Romantic

An afternoon of banter and bottled water with Leo Woodall, Hollywood's favorite new heartthrob.

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9 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
Podcasters and Influencers Gain New Standing in White House
The Wall Street Journal

Podcasters and Influencers Gain New Standing in White House

John Ashbrook, a co-host of the conservative podcast “Ruthless,” was granted a question during a White House briefing last month. He asked if the media was “out of touch” in its coverage of immigrant deportations. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said yes.

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Trump Plans 25% Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum
The Wall Street Journal

Trump Plans 25% Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum

Measure to be followed by new reciprocal levies on all U.S. trade partners

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3 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Syrian Suburb Grapples With Ruin
The Wall Street Journal

Syrian Suburb Grapples With Ruin

Scale of destruction in former rebel stronghold of Jobar ranks among heaviest

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February 10, 2025
Israel Starts Leaving Security Zone
The Wall Street Journal

Israel Starts Leaving Security Zone

Pullout removes one of its bargaining chips in negotiations to end Gaza war

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
53 MINUTES WITH ...Spencer Pratt
New York magazine

53 MINUTES WITH ...Spencer Pratt

The former reality-TV star lost his home in the fires and ascended to a new level of fame.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
TECH TIP: HOW TO BLOCK YOUR PHONE FROM TRACKING YOUR LOCATION
Techlife News

TECH TIP: HOW TO BLOCK YOUR PHONE FROM TRACKING YOUR LOCATION

Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they're privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you've been ― if you let them.

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Techlife News #693
HOW THE NONPROFIT CHANGE REACTION GETS MONEY TO LA HOUSEHOLDS IMPACTED BY WILDFIRES SO FAST
Techlife News

HOW THE NONPROFIT CHANGE REACTION GETS MONEY TO LA HOUSEHOLDS IMPACTED BY WILDFIRES SO FAST

As Angelenos reel from the devastating wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and killed at least 29 people, an LA-based nonprofit is handing out cash payments of as much as $5,000 to provide fast, unrestricted help to some of those impacted.

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Techlife News #693
GOOGLE SCRAPS ITS DIVERSITY HIRING GOALS AS IT COMPLIES WITH TRUMP'S NEW GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR RULES
Techlife News

GOOGLE SCRAPS ITS DIVERSITY HIRING GOALS AS IT COMPLIES WITH TRUMP'S NEW GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR RULES

Google is scrapping some of its diversity hiring targets, joining a lengthening list of U.S. companies that have abandoned or scaled back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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3 mins  |
Techlife News #693
HONEYWELL, ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING US INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES, WILL SPLIT INTO THREE COMPANIES
Techlife News

HONEYWELL, ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING US INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES, WILL SPLIT INTO THREE COMPANIES

Honeywell, one of the last remaining U.S. industrial conglomerates, will split into three independent companies, following in the footsteps of manufacturing giants like General Electric and Alcoa.

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2 mins  |
Techlife News #693
Plans for New Facility At Cuba Base Ramp Up
The Wall Street Journal

Plans for New Facility At Cuba Base Ramp Up

Migrants are flown to Guantanamo as Trump calls for a much bigger facility

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3 mins  |
February 08, 2025
Mahomes Broke Football-and a Generation of Quarterbacks
The Wall Street Journal

Mahomes Broke Football-and a Generation of Quarterbacks

New Orleans EVERYONE WHO PICKS UP a football these days dreams of throwing it like Patrick Mahomes.

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February 08, 2025
Read This in Big Type.The Best Founders Are at Least 50.
The Wall Street Journal

Read This in Big Type.The Best Founders Are at Least 50.

Silicon Valley’s idea of an entrepreneur is someone who launched a startup in adorm room. This investor hunts for people who graduated in the 1990s.

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4 mins  |
February 08, 2025
He Manages Super Egos During New York Fashion Week
The Wall Street Journal

He Manages Super Egos During New York Fashion Week

Akeem Rasool is an agent to Naomi Campbell and other supermodels

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4 mins  |
February 08, 2025
EU Looks to Roll Back Climate Accounting Rules
The Wall Street Journal

EU Looks to Roll Back Climate Accounting Rules

The European Commission is reviewing elements of its flagship Green Deal environmental policy, as worries over rising costs and a lack of competitiveness with China and the U.S. grow within the continent.

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February 08, 2025
Funding Halted for EV Charging Stations
The Wall Street Journal

Funding Halted for EV Charging Stations

U.S. suspends approval of states' plans for $5 billion in highway chargers

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2 mins  |
February 08, 2025
The Kids Always Came First. Then I Realized My Marriage Was Falling Apart.
The Wall Street Journal

The Kids Always Came First. Then I Realized My Marriage Was Falling Apart.

Children don't need constant sacrifice. Everyone's better off when parents serve themselves, too.

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2 mins  |
February 08, 2025
A Pioneer in Creating the Role of Nurse Practitioner
The Wall Street Journal

A Pioneer in Creating the Role of Nurse Practitioner

She was convinced that nurses could go well beyond their traditional role. Many doctors disagreed.

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2 mins  |
February 08, 2025
The Adult in the Room in Microsoft’s Early Days
The Wall Street Journal

The Adult in the Room in Microsoft’s Early Days

Says Bill Gates: Pretty early in our work, Steve Ballmer and said, God, wish we had guys like Mike Maples here’

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4 mins  |
February 08, 2025
The AI Spending Spree Is Just Getting Started
The Wall Street Journal

The AI Spending Spree Is Just Getting Started

There's stepping on the gas, and then there's flooring it. When it comes to investing in artificial intelligence, Amazon.​com just did the latter.

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2 mins  |
February 08, 2025
A PRIVATE CLUB'S VERY PUBLIC PROBLEMS
The Wall Street Journal

A PRIVATE CLUB'S VERY PUBLIC PROBLEMS

Soho House faces feuding billionaires, a takeover offer and complaints about waiting ages to order a drink

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7 mins  |
February 08, 2025
A Writer Of Men On Edge
The Wall Street Journal

A Writer Of Men On Edge

THOUGH Argentina's cultural hub was in Buenos Aires, the writer Antonio di Benedetto (1922-1986) stayed for most of his life in his birth city of Mendoza, in the foothills of the Andes mountains and some 650 miles from the capital.

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4 mins  |
February 08, 2025
Dark Dreamer
The Wall Street Journal

Dark Dreamer

IN DECEMBER 1936, \"Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism\" opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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4 mins  |
February 08, 2025