"I could tell by what she served whether she was merely feeding us or saying she loved us.When I once referred to Lola as a distant aunt, Billy reminded me that when we’d first met I’d said she was my grandmother.“Well, she’s kind of both,” I said mysteriously.“Why is she always working?”“She likes to work,” I said.“Your dad and mom—why do they yell at her?”“Her hearing isn’t so good …”Admitting..."
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"People in the Lytton area can apply for grants of $10,000 toward rebuilding to fire-resilient standards and, depending on home size, about $84,000 to rebuild to net-zero standards—using solar panels or better-insulated walls and roofs, as well as thicker, more airtight windows.Read: I turned my house into a zero-carbon utopiaIt’s a good policy in principle, Ali Asgary, a professor of disaster a..."
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"Certain securities mentioned in this article may be currently held, have been held, or be held in future in the author’s personal portfolio or a portfolio managed by Ritholtz Wealth Management.This article is part of Fortune’s quarterly investment guide for Q4 2023."
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"Miss Candace sighed in confidence to Lucy; and Lucy, weeping, returned: “He would have been fourteen this January.”“And he might have been a genius—who knows?”“At least he might have been more like dear Papa.”“It seems to me so cruel, Lucy, that with your father’s marvellous gifts for educating the young—his extraordinarily formative influence on his students—he should have failed so completely..."
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"Now writing a new book titled Working Assumptions: What We Thought We Knew Before COVID and Generative AI—and What We Know Now, she explains to Fortune that her comments for Scoop “are in the wider context of the continuing trend towards flexibility as a desire in the labor market, despite the working assumption that perhaps a more rigid norm would return.”"
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"“This is like the second industrial revolution, where companies that understood the transformative effect of the new technology and really leaned into it, those are the companies that took off and became the rulers of the world.”Subscribe to the Eye on AI newsletter to stay abreast of how AI is shaping the future of business."
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"This effort to amalgamate minorities into a single category of “Chinese”—as opposed to “citizens of China”—may be behind the severity of Xi’s suppression of minority traditional life: The government has smothered Uyghur culture by destroying religious sites; curtailing the study of Uyghur culture, literature, and language in schools; and associating the practice of Islam with extremism."
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"Making it truly wretched was the Dagenhart court’s reliance on a dubious constitutional distinction to allow federal regulation of “evil” activities such as the lottery, prostitution, and the sale of alcohol but not of the employment of children.In our times, some of the leading candidates for the “abysmal” category are the extraordinarily out-of-touch decisions striking down laws protecting ch..."
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"Now writing a new book titled Working Assumptions: What We Thought We Knew Before COVID and Generative AI—and What We Know Now, she explains to Fortune that her comments for Scoop “are in the wider context of the continuing trend towards flexibility as a desire in the labor market, despite the working assumption that perhaps a more rigid norm would return.”"
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"“Despite thousands of hours spent with regulators around the world detailing differences between our businesses, our products, and the markets we serve, we no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of the deal,” wrote the Figma CEO in a letter published on the company blog, first shared with employees."
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"On the contrary, more so than any other year since SARS-CoV-2 appeared, our usual respiratory viruses “seem to be kind of getting back to their old patterns” with regard to timing and magnitude, Kathryn Edwards, a vaccine and infectious-disease expert at Vanderbilt University, told me.Read: The worst pediatric-care crisis in decadesBut even so-so seasons of RSV, flu, and SARS-CoV-2 could create..."
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"The same efforts would stand Ukraine in good stead with the Biden administration—and they would strengthen Ukraine’s bid for accession to the European Union, which has made clear that Kyiv needs to tackle its problem with graft if it wants to be a serious candidate.Anne Applebaum: The West must defeat RussiaFor Ukraine, then, ending defense corruption may be essential to defeating the Kremlin."
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"New versions of Stable Diffusion have made it much harder to create harmful content, but an older version introduced last year — which Stability AI says it didn’t release — is still baked into other applications and tools and remains “the most popular model for generating explicit imagery,” according to the Stanford report."
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"Shah’s not the first CEO to glamourize overworking—but new research shows it’s counterintuitive Earlier this year, Musk similarly praised his Chinese workers for “burning the 3am oil” and not leaving the factory for the likes of going to sleep, “whereas in America people are trying to avoid going to work at all.”"
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"Although the average number of lateral relatives varies across race and class groups in the U.S., the cousin decline is either imminent or already happening across all of them.Your “vertical,” intergenerational bonds can be tight and tremendously meaningful, but they also tend to come with care duties, and a clear hierarchy: Think of a grandparent babysitting their child’s toddler, or an adult ..."
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"But a fair reading of the historical record—or at least my own reading of the historical record—shows that the obstacle to a Palestinian homeland lies much more with a militant and corrupt Palestinian leadership, which has created a malignant political culture, than with Israel, which has frequently shown a willingness to surrender land for genuine peace.Israel did so with Egypt in 1978 and Jor..."
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"continued to see robust hiring throughout 2023—with 199,000 jobs added in November—some companies are outpacing others when it comes to snatching up new talent.Bath & Body Works, Tesla, and Papa Johns were among the 15 fastest-hiring companies between August and October, according to a new analysis from Indeed."
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"A humanities faculty member at an elite research university—who did not want to be identified, because he does not have tenure—is only one of several professors who told me that his department struggles to balance its curricular needs with the more political subfields being pushed by administrators.“The directive came down from the dean that new tenure lines were only likely to be approved if t..."
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"The 220 Central Park South residential skyscraper situated along Billionaires’ Row on the south side of Central Park in the Midtown neighborhood of New York.Amir Hamja—Bloomberg via Getty Images $75 million for 220 Central Park South, Apt 64 The backstory: Measuring roughly 6,000 square feet with five bedrooms and 5 ½ baths, according to Olshan’s data, the apartment, which was never officially ..."
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