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A day in the life of five Houston residents – a transplant to the area, a weatherman, a mother, an Iraq refugee, and a good Samaritan – before, during, and just after Hurricane Harvey. Fifty-one inches: Terror, heartbreak, and heroism as five souls brave the worst storm in U.S. history , Houston Chronicle Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. It’s home to the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex, where billions of gallons of oil and dangerous chemicals are stored. And it’s a sitting duck for the next big hurricane. Hell and HighWater , ProPublica , published in March 2016
The $170 billion corporate empire... maker of Hellmann’s mayonnaise, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Axe deodorant, and Dove soap... has been trying to prove corporations can do well by doing good. Can the idealism survive in an age of cost-cutting? If Unilever Can’t Make Feel-Good CapitalismWork, Who Can? , Bloomberg Businessweek
In a corner of Alphabet’s campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars. No journalist has ever seen it in action until now. They call it Carcraft, after the popular game World of Warcraft. InsideWaymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars , The Atlantic The shuttering of the much-ridiculed Silicon Valley startup was the culmination of unsustainable costs, slow sales and unflattering media reports... Inside Juicero’s Demise, From Prized Startup to Fire Sale , Bloomberg According to a new survey by Stanford University political scientists, tech entrepreneurs are very liberal – among some of the most left-leaning Democrats you can find... but they are deeply suspicious of the government’s efforts to regulate business, especially when it comes to labor. Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, With One Big Exception , The New York Times
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