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☆ Bill Gates' top 5 books of the year include a Roger Federer biography and a book by the head of Microsoft AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementOn Tuesday, Bill Gates published his annual list of his favorite books of the year. His top reads of 2024 include an autobiography and a book by the head of Microsoft AI. Bill Gates has released his yearly roster of book recommendations as 2024 comes to a close. AdvertisementGates said of the book: "If you want to understand the rise of AI, this is the best book to read." "Federer" by Doris HenkelGates' bonus book pick is a visual biography of tennis player Roger Federer by sports writer Doris Henkel.

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☆ Bill Gates recommends a 'perfect read for the holidays'—and 4 other books 'to keep you warm' this winter
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

If the idea of curling up with a good book this holiday season sounds appealing, Bill Gates has some recommendations for you. Suleyman is a co-founder of AI research lab DeepMind and the current CEO of Microsoft AI. The book "offers something rare: a clear-eyed view of both the extraordinary opportunities and genuine risks ahead," wrote Gates. The book offers lessons "about how leaders have tackled tough times before [that] are both comforting and fascinating," Gates wrote. "It's hard to deny the similarities between the 1960s and today — a time of political upheaval, generational conflict, and protests on college campuses," wrote Gates.

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☆ The 10 countries with the most Americans living abroad
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

AdvertisementMillions of Americans live abroad, including in Mexico and Canada. It's hard to know exactly how many US citizens live overseas and all their reasons for moving. Whether it's wanderlust, retirement, cost of living, family ties, or other reasons, some Americans long to live abroad. Using census data, the Association of Americans Resident Overseas estimated the countries with the highest number of US citizens. Here are the top 10 countries where Americans are choosing to live after they leave the US, according to the AARO.

Persons: it's wanderlust, Doris L, Speer Organizations: Association of Americans, Overseas Locations: Mexico, Canada, Australia

☆ Warren Buffett just shared his most detailed plan yet for his fortune when he dies
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Bryan Mena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Courtesy of Susie Buffett Laila Buffett poses with her three children -- from left, Roberta, Warren and Doris. Courtesy of Susie Buffett Buffett teaches a class at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Courtesy of Susie Buffett Buffett married his first wife, Susan, in 1952. Courtesy of Susie Buffett Buffett poses for a photo in 1980. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty Images Buffett attends the world premiere of "Becoming Warren Buffett," a documentary about his life, in 2017.

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☆ Warren Buffett Publishes Letter on Giving Away Wealth, Kids, and Luck
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Warren Buffett surprised shareholders on Monday with a near-1,500-word letter alongside his usual Thanksgiving gift to four of his family's foundations. The famed investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO said he would shortly convert 1,600 of his Class A shares into 2.4 million Class B shares, worth about $1.2 billion. Buffett picked more trustees to share his wealthIn his unexpected missive to Berkshire shareholders, Buffett said the gifts would reduce his personal stockpile to 206,363 A shares, worth $149 billion. Buffett said his late wife's estate was worth about $3 billion, and 96% of that went into the pair's foundation. They are also somewhat younger than my children," Buffett said, adding those individuals are "on the waitlist" and he hoped his children disbursed all his assets.

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☆ Companies say RTO mandates make work more creative — it might take more than that
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementMany major companies are asking employees to return to the office full or part-time. Companies are betting that asking employees to return to the office will help boost creativity. While being physically present may boost collaboration and the flow of ideas, workplace specialists told Business Insider that RTO mandates alone might not be the answer. Related VideoTo get the rest of the way, companies need bosses and a culture that fosters creativity. She said that creativity and personal resilience at work both proliferated with the rise of remote work.

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☆ Bans on out-of-hours work calls and emails are looming. They could bring trouble as well as peace.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There are clear mental health benefits to healthy workplace boundaries. AdvertisementIn France, where the trend emerged, workers are under no obligation to work at home, and ignoring calls outside work hours is no grounds for discipline. Related storiesMental health benefitsThere are clear mental health benefits to healthy workplace boundaries. Cooper said that when attempting to improve a company's culture, you also don't want to eliminate flexible working altogether. In his work on the book "Flexible Work: Designing our Healthier Future Lives," Cooper found that people have wanted flexible work for a long time.

Persons: —, Rentokil, Elouisa Crichton, Sir Cary Cooper, Cooper, Crichton, it's, Jeri Doris, Doris Organizations: Service, Labour, Gallup, BI, Manchester Business School Locations: France, Portugal, Australia, New York, Washington, California

☆ A woman died after being told it would be a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage at a Texas hospital
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Cassandra Jaramillo | Kavitha Surana | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

The company did not respond to a detailed list of questions about Barnica’s care. When Barnica’s husband arrived, she told him doctors couldn’t intervene until there was no heartbeat. The law did not account for the possibility of a future emergency, one that could develop in hours or days without intervention, doctors told ProPublica. As the hours passed in the Houston hospital, Barnica couldn’t find relief. Meanwhile, Lima was pulling up Barnica’s medical chart to make an addition to her records.

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☆ Cissy Houston, renowned gospel singer and Whitney Houston’s mother, dies at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Cissy Houston, renowned soul and gospel singer and mother to Whitney Houston, died at the age of 91. Houston, a two-time Grammy winner who sang backup for Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley, passed away at her home Monday morning in New Jersey, according to her daughter-in-law Pat Houston. May she rest in peace, alongside her daughter, Whitney and granddaughter Bobbi Kristina and other cherished family members.”Whitney Houston and Cissy Houston at the Annual People's Choice Awards in 1993. She later formed the Sweet Inspirations alongside Dee Dee Warwick and Doris Troy, singing backup for Otis Redding, Dusty Springfield and Dionne Warwick. “On behalf of The Houston Family, we are touched by your generous support, and your outpouring of love during our profound time of grief,” said the family in a statement.

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☆ The Gap comeback that might actually be working
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Cathleen Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Designer Zac Posen — now creative director at Gap Inc., at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in March 2024. Danny Moloshok/ReutersSince 2014, the Gap brand has nearly halved its presence in North America, going from 968 stores in the market to 472 as of February. It makes up about 20% of overall Gap Inc. revenue, while Old Navy accounts for more than half. Before Gap, Posen was on track for a similar trajectory to Mizrahi’s. They started by redefining the positioning of each brand: Gap as a pop culture brand.

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☆ What Joe Biden Knows: ‘Politics Is About Tomorrow, Not Yesterday.’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( David Paul Kuhn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They began throwing stones.” Then he would awaken, “terribly shaken.”This is the troubled man who withdrew from the presidential race. Increasingly isolated, President Biden surely shared that agony when he made the decision to bow out of the 2024 presidential race. Perhaps, ultimately, he came to recall in assessing the race and his situation a fundamental principle of politics. “Politics is about tomorrow, not yesterday,” he told me in 2007. With the years since showing, he must have accepted that he is yesterday and chose to let the party move on.

Persons: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, “, ‘ Coward, “ Johnson, ” Norman Mailer, Biden, ”

☆ The Everything Guide to Partying (Without Regrets)
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( George Gurley | Carson Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

And don’t ask who else is coming. Romilly Newman, chef, food stylist, social media personality Don’t bring a guest to a seated dinner. Raul Tovar/Houses & Parties Rebecca Gardner Please don’t ask people to take off their shoes when entering your apartment. Bronson van Wyck Gosh, I don’t think you can avoid certain topics in 2024. But don’t think you’re décor.

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☆ US vs. Chinese aircraft carriers: How the world's top flattops stack up
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Liaoning and ShandongAircraft carrier Liaoning set out for sea trials at Dalian shipyard with the help of tugboats. A J-15 fighter takes off from aircraft carrier Shandong during the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around Taiwan. Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford sails in the Adriatic Sea. China has no experience operating carrier catapults on its warships (though it did study carrier catapults when it purchased the decommissioned Australian carrier HMAS Melbourn from Canberra in 1985 under the guise of scrapping). AdvertisementChina's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, docks in Shanghai with a Chinese flag seen in the foreground.

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☆ From hunter to guardian: How the ‘Snakeman of India’ found his way into wildlife conservation
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Michelle Cohan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Whitaker would go on to earn the nickname “Snakeman of India,” and spend more than six decades dedicated to reptile research and conservation. His field work with snakes and crocodiles ultimately led his conservation efforts to help save India’s rainforests. We tell people when they’re working in the field, when they’re doing agriculture, use a stick. Romulus Whitaker teaches the next generation about reptiles at his conservation organization, Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, in southern India. And it’s wonderful to realize that dozens, if not hundreds, of young people have continued to do wonderful work with reptiles.

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☆ Michael Showalter on 'the Idea of You' Controversial Ending, 'Wet Hot'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Caralynn Matassa | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Michael Showalter kept acting long after he realized he didn't want to do it anymore — mostly because he needed to eat. Showalter got his start in college doing sketch comedy as a member of The State (formerly The New Group). Fast forward roughly two decades and Showalter has found himself right where he was always meant to be. But as I grew older, it was a combination of I wasn't getting cast in things, but I also wasn't really needing to get cast in things. Is there any one moment where you realized acting wasn't what you loved doing?

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☆ Fujian: China’s newest aircraft carrier heads to sea for first time
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Seoul, South Korea CNN —China’s newest, largest and most-advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, took a big step to joining the world’s largest naval fleet on Wednesday as it set out from Shanghai for its first sea trials. “The sea trials will primarily test the reliability and stability of the aircraft carrier’s propulsion and electrical systems,” read an announcement from the state-run Xinhua news agency on Wednesday. The warship was launched in 2022 and has “completed its mooring trials, outfitting work and equipment adjustments” working up to the latest sea trials, Xinhua said. A tugboat tows China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, away from a dock in east China's Shanghai on May 1, 2024. The American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is seen from the air anchored in Italy in the Gulf of Trieste on September 18, 2023.

Persons: Li Tang, ”, John Bradford, Carl Schuster, Gerald R Ford, ” Bradford, Gerald R, Ford, Andrej Tarfila, Schuster, ” Schuster, Brian Hart, Yuan Huazhi, John F Kennedy, Doris Miller Organizations: South Korea CNN —, Jiangnan Shipyard, Maritime Safety Administration, Xinhua, Liberation Army, United States Navy, PLAN, Foreign Relations International Affairs, US, Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence, Nimitz, Ford, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Analysts, American, Chinese Defense Ministry, China Power, CSIS, Times, US Navy, Enterprise Locations: Seoul, South Korea, Fujian, Shanghai, East China, Jiangnan, Shandong, Liaoning, Italy, Gulf of Trieste, China

☆ Did Trump’s lawyers misquote George Washington? Here’s what the first president actually said
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Searching for some evidence that the Founding Fathers would have supported “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for former President Donald Trump, his lawyers have turned to George Washington. Washington’s thought does not end where Trump’s lawyers put the period. In his farewell address, the first president advised his fellow citizens that “Religion and morality” were the “great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens." Another Washington historian, Alexis Coe, who wrote a recent biography, described the Trump lawyers’ view of Washington’s farewell address as “bonkers.” She thinks that rather than trying to seek exemption from laws, Washington would find ways around them. Anything that delays Trump’s prosecution is a clear win for the former president, who is playing for time until the November election.

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☆ The US Navy's grappling with another Ford-class supercarrier delay that could run into the next decade
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe US Navy's third Ford-class aircraft carrier is facing delays that might push its delivery to 2030. The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford transits the Strait of Gibraltar, Jan. 5, 2024. Nick Guertin, the Navy's acquisition executive, attributed the shipbuilding delays to "common issues from lingering COVID impacts across the national workforce and supply chain landscape with industry reticent to invest." Related storiesThe following Ford-class carrier, USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), is currently on schedule thanks to the Navy buying both the Enterprise and Miller at the same time. AdvertisementA T-45C Goshawk training aircraft attached to Training Air Wing (TAW) 1, lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during flight operations, Sept. 12, 2020.

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☆ A Historian Makes Peace With Her Own History
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Joanne Kaufman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After Doris Kearns Goodwin’s husband died nearly six years ago, the couple’s home, a 19th-century farmhouse in Concord, Mass., no longer felt right. “We were there for 20 years,” said Ms. Kearns Goodwin, 81, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s,” will be published April 16. “It was a house we had loved, and a house that in many ways we had built together,” she continued, referring to assorted refinements, including the three-car garage that became a library and the addition of a tower inspired by her husband’s fascination with Galileo.

Persons: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s, ”, Kearns Goodwin, “, Galileo Locations: Concord ,

☆ I was Michelle Obama's right-hand assistant, and she encouraged me to start my own business. Here are 6 tips for new entrepreneurs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Jamishia J.J. Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I secured an internship during my senior year of college at the White House during the historical Obama administration in 2010. Clayton with Michelle Obama and colleagues in the Rose Garden before a 2016 College Signing Day event. Clayton assisting Michelle Obama backstage before a "When We All Vote" rally in 2018. Michelle Obama gave me the ultimate vote of confidence to start my businessMrs. Obama was the person who planted the seed for me to start my business. AdvertisementMy company focuses on business development, personnel development, and personal development.

Persons: —, Chynna Clayton, Michelle Obama, It's, I'm, Obama, Clayton, Chuck Kennedy, Michelle Obama's, Barack Obama's, who's, Uncle Sam, Linder Williams, Margaret Berry, Grandmother, Mildred King, Doris King Organizations: Service, Business, University of Florida, Greyhound, White, Invest Locations: Liberty , Florida, Liberty City , Florida, Kathleen , Georgia, Miami

☆ A millennial and her new husband moved in with her parents. They all still live in her childhood home 11 years later.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

As for her mom, Grills said she was happy to babysit. The arrangement is a sensible option for many millennial parents dealing with the cost-of-living crisis, particularly when they need childcare. AdvertisementMoore's parents don't have a separate living space in the homeShe gave birth to their second daughter, Phoebe, in 2018 and son, Barrett, in 2020. Grills told BI that her son-in-law, "a phenomenal chef," tends to cook; she does the kids' laundry and the dishes. The Grills don't pay rent, but bills are split.

Persons: —, Megan Moore scrolled, Ramona, Jim, Moore, Luke, Megan Moore, Dad, Moores, Phoebe, Barrett, babysits Barrett, he's, Megan Moore Moore, Pink Floyd, Doris Day, there's, I'm Organizations: Service, Business

☆ ‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Mira Cheng | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his brother Philip Alexander. He was placed in an iron lung, a large metal cylinder that varies air pressure to stimulate breathing, according to his autobiography. Our neighbors would run over and help us pump it.”Paul spent the next seven decades in an iron lung. In March 2023, he was declared the longest surviving iron lung patient in the world by the Guinness World Records. He learned breathing techniques that allowed him to leave the iron lung for a few hours at a time.

Persons: Paul Alexander, Philip Alexander, Paul, ” Philip, Philip said, “ Paul, ” Christopher Ulmer, ” Doris Alexander, Paul’s, ” Paul, “, ”, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, “ I’ve, I’m, Paul ” Organizations: CNN, US Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Guinness World Records, CNN Health Locations: United States

She decided to try a book she had heard about often, bell hooks’ “All About Love: New Visions." Tiffany Stewart, a writer and producer in Los Angeles, first read “All About Love” two years ago with her reading group and reread it recently. “For bell, the love she talks about is a love for justice. 'All About Love' is a love letter to justice." She responded to hooks' insistence that love was more a verb than a noun, an act of will as opposed to an abstract ideal.

Persons: Emma Goodwin, “, ”, Goodwin, Brianna Pippen, Tiffany Stewart, “ We've, William Morrow, Morrow, Rachel Kahan, George Floyd, Kahan, Gloria Jean Watkins, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Intersectionality, Shadee Malaklou, Stewart, ” Stewart, ” Doris Cooper, Cooper, Simon, Simon & Schuster, Lily Edelman, Edelman, Gold, love's, ” Edelman Organizations: —, William Morrow and Company, New York Times, Berea College, Simon & Locations: Philadelphia, Washington, D.C, Los Angeles, Berea , Kentucky, Greenwich, Monterey , California

☆ Get Ready for the Great Trump Diaspora
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Paul Starobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The Atlantic devoted an entire issue to the authoritarian horrors in store for America "If Trump Wins." AdvertisementA second Trump presidency, Speer said, could serve as a "catalyst" that further fuels the growing diaspora of Americans living in exile. Since 2015, Democrats Abroad, the foreign-based arm of the DNC, has nearly tripled its membership. Since 2015, Democrats Abroad, the foreign-based arm of the Democratic National Committee, has nearly tripled its membership, which now numbers in the hundreds of thousands. My wife and I are both Trump decriers, although we didn't begin our Italy property search to find a refuge from MAGA-infused America.

Persons: specter, Donald Trump —, Trump, Gallup, George W, Bush's, Barack Obama's, Doris Speer, Speer, —, Roe, Wade —, Martha McDevitt, Pugh, Emily, Francophiles, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin —, Nicole Kidman's, MAGA, batty, it's, John Galey, Paul Starobin Organizations: Washington Post, Trump, America, Association of Americans Resident Overseas, dodgers, DNC, Democratic National Committee, Leggett, Italy Facebook, Côte, IRS, Citizens Abroad, Los Angeles Times, New Books Network Locations: Umbria, Italy, Montana, Tuscany, Texas, Tennessee, America, Canada, Washington, Paris, United States, Iraq, Europe, Vietnam, Sedona , Arizona, Portugal, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Golden, California, MAGA

☆ What if Mom’s Not to Blame?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Mark Harris | Keita Morimoto | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The past year has brought an exceptionally varied and thematically rich crop of movies exploring men and their — to use the proper scientific term — mommy issues. By the end of most of them, blood is on the floor, and the collateral damage is steep. Men who couldn’t, or worse, didn’t want to, were portrayed as marionettes tied to and practically strangled by their mothers’ apron strings. “I’ve been talking to this psychiatrist about my mother for two years now,” his character says in “Pillow Talk” (1959), adding, “It’s perfectly healthy. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.

Persons: Beau, ”, who’s, Freud, Robert Walker’s simpering, mommy, Anthony Perkins, Norman Bates, Marion Crane, Janet Leigh, Tony Randall, Doris, “ I’ve Organizations: Hudson, The

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