SAN JOSE, California — At the height of its popularity in 2015, Elizabeth Holmes, the entrepreneur who founded the blood testing startup Theranos, was named Glamour’s “Woman of the Year”. Zaman put him on the list of 100 intellectuals. And Fortune, Forbes, Inc. and graced the covers of T Magazine. Theranos crashed with the scandal …
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection past columns. A few winters ago me and many other American women Amazon JacketIt’s a pretty affordable piece of outerwear that grabs attention for a warm minute. It’s an ok jacket, but I keep forgetting the name of the manufacturer. I doubt …
Although its name is New York, the Blood Center has long since expanded beyond the city and now operates in more than a dozen states, operating a collection of blood banks and laboratories mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. The center supplies about 80 percent of the blood in New York City hospitals and More …
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HOUSTON – At a time when old-fashioned aces were becoming rare, Atlanta lost one of the game’s top postseason performers for the remainder of the World Series. Charlie Morton, Atlanta’s veteran right-handed starter, broken right fibula After hitting her leg with a sharp kick from Yuli Gurriel’s stick in Atlanta’s second kick 6-2 victory Over …
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“Danger!” There is another seemingly unstoppable feeling. On Friday, Matt Amodio, Ph.D. The computer science student at Yale won his 28th game, earning over $1 million. He is only the third contestant to do so in a regular season game, after Ken Jennings, the show’s contestant-producer, and James HolzhauerA phenomenon that fascinated the audience with …
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A monitoring station on the Italian island of Sicily hit a scorching temperature of 48.8 degrees Celsius, or 119.84 degrees Fahrenheit, on Wednesday. If confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, Highest temperature ever recorded in EuropeIt surpassed the previous record of 48 degrees, set in Athens in July 1977. Although they’ve long been accustomed to …
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Marcia Nasatir, The first woman to become vice president of a major Hollywood studio — though she never managed one, unlike some female executives who followed her — she died on August 3 in Woodland Hills, California. He was 95 years old. His sons, Mark and Seth, confirmed the death at the Cinema and Television …
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