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Rivian's debut in the public markets has investors buying up shares of other EV sector start-ups. The IRS makes inflation adjustments yearly, but this year they coincided with hot October inflation data. Another electric startup, Rivian, has roared into the market with no sales but a higher valuation than Ford and GM. And I panic. I'd been held up at gun point in Williamsburg earlier that summer, so I was especially jittery.
I literally run back down the platform, up the stairs, and stop, shivering, just inside the turnstile where the clerk can see me. After a long time, the train comes. I get on it, and begin working on two different problems. The first, and larger problem is how to get the fuck out of New York City, which is dirty, dangerous, disgusting, I hate New York, I have to get out.
To anywhere else. Maybe a trailer park in Idaho. The second, more immediate problem is beer. There is a bodega at 25th and 6th, run by these crazy Iranian guys. I don't know if it will be open it is by now two in the morning , and if it is, I don't know if they'll sell me beer, as it's technically Sunday. These are minor problems, though, compared to money. I am sitting on the 4, simultaneously visualizing my new life as an Idahoian and scrounging pennies out of my jeans pockets.
Budweiser time. This realization depresses me even more -- five years busting my ass at my chosen profession, and I'm sitting on the subway at two in the morning counting pennies so I can get a single can of lousy beer and go home alone.
I get out at 23rd, and start walking west, then north on 6th. The bodega is still open, and as I walk in, one of the guys standing by the door holds up his hand to stop me, and says something I will never forget.
Yves St. Laurent, or Bill Blass? These options are presented as if I am facing the Judgment of Paris, and his body language makes it clear that I'm not getting to the cooler 'til I answer. Now this is jolting, in part because it's so random, but also because I am definitely not the guy to ask.
My sartorial sensibilities veer between dress-down Friday and last man out of a mine collapse, and that evening had me closer to the West Virginia end of the spectrum -- ratty sneakers, no socks, paint stained cut-offs, a t-shirt with holes and coffee stains.
And so, transported from my "I hate New York" funk into an unexpected interrogation, I fall back on two habits of mind common to generations of New Yorkers. First, never let the fact that you know absolutely nothing about the matter at hand stop you from delivering a firm opinion, and, second, when in doubt on matters of culture, go for the French-sounding name.
His face lights up, and he turns and backhands his partner in the chest. You are my friend," and steps aside. When I get back to the counter to pay, he waves his hand as if pardoning a sentence of death.
Free beer! From Muslims! On the Sabbath! What could be bad? A little dazed, I head for the door, and he stops me a third time. Here, don't get AIDS. Then I see he's holding a little stack of condoms, and he takes one off the top and hands it to me.
I stand there for a minute, and he just smiles and nods. Fast forward to Pambazuka News has published issues, a remarkable achievement for an internet-based information platform in an environment littered with websites that have died or are irregularly updated.
There is hardly a major event or debate on the African continent that Pambazuka News has not been able to publish an article on. But what is one to make of Pambazuka News and the impact it has had?
Generally, it is notoriously hard to accurately quantify the impact of information. And Pambazuka News probably means as many different things to as many people who are subscribers.
I remember one example, though, of someone who wrote in to the newsletter from West Africa saying that an article about someone making soap in East Africa had enabled her to get in touch with that person, find out how soap was made and begin making soap for herself. In , as a newly trained physician, Soka Moses took on one of the toughest jobs in the world: treating highly contagious patients at the height of Liberia's Ebola outbreak.
In this intense, emotional talk, he details what he saw on the frontlines of the crisis -- and reveals the challenges and stigma that thousands of survivors still face. Soap operas and telenovelas may be ahem overdramatic, but as Kate Adams shows us, their exaggerated stories and characters often cast light on the problems of real life. In this sparkling, funny talk, Adams, a former assistant casting director for "As the World Turns," shares four lessons for life and business that we can learn from melodramas.
Your hands, up close, are anything but smooth. With peaks and valleys, folds and rifts, there are plenty of hiding places for a virus to stick. If you then touch your face, the virus can infect you. But there are two extraordinarily simple ways you can keep that from happening: soap and water, and hand sanitizer.
So which is better?
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