The Justice Department on Tuesday joined an escalating effort to squeeze money from companies who made the prescription painkillers that fueled America’s opioid crisis, saying it would back lawsuits by hundreds of cities, states and other local governments that accuse the manufacturers of fooling the public into thinking the drugs […]
Daily Archives: February 27, 2018
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Johanna Wanka, the former education minister, was reprimanded for responding to an AfD slogan at a Berlin protest rally in 2015 that read: “Red card for Merkel – asylum needs borders.” Ms Wanka issued the statement on the ministry’s website, at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis, saying the […]
Frances Frei is leaving Uber to return to teaching full time at Harvard, as well as develop an independent executive education program for companies. Uber Uber hired Frances Frei, a Harvard Business School professor, in June to help clean up its company culture. And now she’s leaving. Frei is moving […]
Late last month, while recovering in hospital, Kayleeann Hummell had an unusual epiphany after emergency surgery: She was grateful her health problems had happened now. When the high school senior was sent home by the school nurse in intense pain, she headed to a hospital. Within 10 minutes she was […]
A study published in the Lancet Public Health journal last week said heavy boozing is a “major factor” in all forms of the incurable illness, after observing more than a million adults diagnosed with dementia in France. Looking specifically at 57,000 cases of early-onset dementia as part of the study, […]
Amid Nokia’s slew of phone announcements during MWC 2018, the new Nokia 6 might have slipped under your radar. Sandwiched somewhere between the quirky, entry-level Nokia 8110 4G and the flashy, premium Nokia 8 Sirocco, the Nokia 6 is a steadfastly mid-tier phone running Google’s stripped-down Android One OS. The […]
Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Again and again, men accused of sexual harassment in the wake of #MeToo have struck a common note in their responses, one that rings anywhere from false to bewildering: “The situation was mutual.” On the extreme end of the spectrum there’s movie boss Harvey Weinstein, […]
Although reviews will not be published just yet, critics who have seen it are now able to voice their initial reactions on social media. Whilst some are very positive, others are a little more reserved. Generally speaking, director Ava DuVernay has been praised for her attempts to adapt the 1962 […]