![]() Now Carreyrou is out with a book-length exposé, “Bad Blood,” which uses interviews with more than 150 people to show how Holmes briefly became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Remarkably, that omission didn’t stand in the way of Theranos’ financial success until late 2015, when Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Carreyrou began to expose the company’s lies in a series of investigative stories in the Wall Street Journal. The problem was, Theranos had no such device. The device would eliminate thousands of deaths from adverse drug reactions, identifying diseases early, and run any blood test for less than half the normal cost, potential customers were told. Theranos’ blood-testing device was “the most important thing humanity has ever built,” Holmes once told a crowd of employees. Founder Elizabeth Holmes, a college dropout, exuded Steve Jobs-like confidence as she spun a founding narrative so powerful that it could induce a kind of blindness in business executives who should have known better. The company was selling a revolutionary blood-analysis machine that boasted a sophisticated touch screen and a sleek designer case. ![]() ![]() Theranos, the Silicon Valley health care startup, seemed to have everything it would need to live up to its hype and become the next breakout tech phenom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Howard Stern regularly features porn on his show, and for this he was the second-highest paid celebrity in the world in 2006 Hugh Hefner’s life, with his blonde, young, and embarrassingly naive “girlfriends,” is the topic of the hugely popular The Girls Next Door on E! Entertainment retired mega–porn star Jenna Jameson has written a best-selling book and appears in numerous popular celebrity magazines, and Sasha Grey, the new, more hard-core Jenna Jameson, is featured in a four-page article in Rolling Stone in May 2009 and appears in a Steven Soderbergh movie. Playboy, Penthouse, and HustlerĬhapter 3. Porn and the Industrialization of SexĬhapter 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking to CNN in March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed reports of divisions among his commanders about the merits of fighting on in Bakhmut. Just this week, Ukraine's military had claimed fresh advances in the area, suggesting continuing efforts in the city. A Ukrainian defense official claimed Saturday that its forces are still clinging to a portion of the city, though she admitted the situation is "critical." ![]() Kyiv, too, is likely to face questions over its approach in Bakhmut. Taking a small city whose population has largely fled is also a long way from Russia’s original goals of capturing Kyiv and toppling the Ukrainian government. ![]() The city provides important road connections to other parts of the Donetsk region: eastward to the border with Luhansk, northwest to Sloviansk and southwest to Kostiantynivka.īut any celebrations are likely to be tempered by the manpower and resources Russia poured into capturing Bakhmut, and Ukraine's reports of continued fighting in areas immediately surrounding the city. The Wagner Group's claim to have captured Bakhmut represents the rarest of things – a tangible battlefield gain for Russia after months of stasis and setbacks. A Ukrainian tank travels near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 12. ![]() ![]() Ga naar onze Privacyverklaring voor meer informatie over hoe en voor welke doeleinden Amazon persoonsgegevens gebruikt (zoals de bestelgeschiedenis van Amazon Store).Īn NPR Best Book of the Year * The stunning sequel to the critically acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. Je kunt je keuzes op elk moment wijzigen door naar Cookievoorkeuren te gaan, zoals beschreven in de Cookieverklaring. Klik op 'Cookies aanpassen' om deze cookies te weigeren, meer gedetailleerde keuzes te maken of voor meer informatie. ![]() Derde partijen gebruiken cookies om persoonlijke advertenties weer te geven en te meten, doelgroepinzichten te genereren en producten te ontwikkelen en te verbeteren. ![]() Dit omvat het gebruik van cookies van eerste en derde partijen die standaard apparaatgegevens, zoals een unieke ID, opslaan of openen. We gebruiken deze cookies ook om te begrijpen hoe klanten onze diensten gebruiken (bijvoorbeeld door websitebezoeken te meten), zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen.Īls je ermee akkoord gaat, gebruiken we ook cookies om je winkelervaring in de Amazon Stores te verbeteren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. ![]() We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools die nodig zijn zodat je aankopen kan doen, en om je winkelervaringen te verbeteren en om onze diensten te leveren, zoals beschreven in onze Cookieverklaring. ![]() ![]() Some of his iconic female characters are Paro in Devdas (1917), Vijaya of Datta (1917-1919), Hemangini of Mejdidi and Kamala of Shesh Prashna (1929). Sarat Chandra is hailed as one of the greatest novelists in Indian literature to have penned contemporary women. ![]() ![]() He also wrote under two pseudonyms - Anila Devi (his sister) and Anupama.įame came easy after this but only made Sarat Chandra reflect deeply on the political and social scenario at large and comment on them through his stories.Īlso read: Cats that wink & science of comets: Sukumar Ray’s fantastic world of literature and creatures On his return to Bengal, he became a favourite among magazine readers for his contributions in Jamuna and Bichitra. He stayed in Rangoon for the next 13 years. Some of his surviving childhood works include Korel and Kashinath.Īt the age of 27, he shifted to Rangoon (now Yangon, Burma) as a clerk in a government office in 1903 and published his first short story Mandir that won him the Kuntolin Puraskar. ![]() He studied at a village school, and was forced to drop out of college due to his limited means. ![]() Born on 15 September, 1876, in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, Sarat Chandra knew poverty from an early age due to an idle father. ![]() ![]() Dreiser's many other works include Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928) and America Is Worth Saving (1941), which express the growing faith in socialism that replaced the nihilistic naturalism and pessimism of his earlier works. An American Tragedy (1925) is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who escapes from his evangelist parents to the exciting and colourful life of a bell‐boy in a Kansas City hotel he moves to New York State to work in a collar factory, and when his girl‐friend Roberta becomes pregnant he drowns her, possibly accidentally, and is tried and condemned to death. Other novels include Jennie Gerhardt (1911) and a trilogy about an unscrupulous business magnate, Frank Cowperwood (The Financier, 1912 The Titan, 1914 The Stoic, 1947). It was withheld from circulation by its publishers, who were apprehensive about Dreiser's frank and amoral treatment of Carrie's sexuality and ambition. ![]() His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), is a powerful account of a working girl's rise to worldly success, and of the slow decline of her lover and protector Hurstwood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beneath the vines of the old greenhouse lie generations of secrets, and it's up to Libby to tend to the fruits born of long-buried seeds. ![]() In one moment, Daisys calm existence turns into chaos. There she discovers a letter that changes everything she knows about her parents, herself, and the estate. Written by Mary Ellen Taylor Narrated by Susan Boyce 3.5 / 5 ( 39 ratings ) About this audiobook Running the family bakery and living in the stores attic might not be Daisys dream life, but shes beginning to understand what being content feels like. As Libby forms relationships and explores the overgrown-yet hauntingly beautiful-Woodmont estate, she finds the emotional courage to sort through her father's office. An Amazon Charts Bestseller.From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of. Libby is immediately drawn to the old greenhouse shrouded in honeysuckle vines. ![]() Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore the grounds and asks Libby to photograph the process. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of old secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() These unsettling stories of today's viral grifters have risen to fame and hit the front-page headlines, yet the curious conundrum remains: Why do these scams happen? Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, former Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it's from the trusted influencers that peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero. Reviewers and celebrities flock to London's top-rated restaurant that's little more than a backyard shed. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. ![]() A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. We live in an age where scams are the new normal. What more could you want?" -Cat Marnell, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age-and why we can't stop falling for them. Produktbeschreibung "Hype is the best kind of nonfiction: juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining, with a celebrity behaving badly on every page. ![]() ![]() ![]() nevertheless, beyond the presumption of innocence for yet another attempt, what we can see is that Monet, like a few others, (Caravaggio, Van Gogh), and for different reasons, keeps us awake, still. Floridium of critics and art historians, intellectuals of all times have tried their hand at the feat. Tackling the “monster,” writing about Monet, is as far-fetched and certainly unsuccessful an undertaking as ever. Proust’s magical, visionary writing counterpoints Monet’s (evocative) painting, two beacons that have dazzled cultural history. ![]() A memory, a fragment of light glimpsed in a Claude Monet painting that leaves, in one of the greatest writers of all time, a trace in color, blurred, evanescent: the river still dozing in the dreams of the morning mist. ![]() “We would like Claude Monet to take us to Giverny, on the banks of the Seine, to that elbow of the river that barely lets us glimpse through the morning mist.” It was June 15, 1905: writing On Reading, Marcel Proust. Review of the exhibition "Monet," in Milan, Palazzo Reale, from Septemto January 30, 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since my major was history/social sciences, I was heavily into research. I started writing for dollars when in college in the late 1950s. Tell us a little about your earliest writing, what first drew you to science fiction and writing for the digest magazines? When I was first reading the Dracula novels, I discovered a copy of If with one of your stories among my cousin’s books. Lory's work at a very exciting time in science fiction, fantasy and horror publishing. It was a lot of fun to learn details about not just the Dracula series but more of Mr. I've decided to do occasional interviews here on the blog, and he was the first person to whom I wanted to pose a few questions since those tales stimulated my imagination when I read them in junior high. Those titles were penned by Robert Lory, and I was thrilled to connect with him online a few years ago. ![]() With Harmon's bald, martial-arts-expert assistant Cameron Sanchez and Dracula's shape shifting friend Ktara, they were off to face super villains, lost worlds and much more. Harmon's wishes, the stake could be activated, sending him back into oblivion. Controlled by the professor's thoughts, the device allowed him to harness Dracula's power for the forces of goodness. In the tales, Damien Harmon, a paralyzed criminologist with telekinetic ability implanted a device with a tiny sliver of a stake near Dracula's heart. ![]() The Dracula Horror Series fit perfectly into that period, a blend of horror, science fiction and action adventure. ![]() |