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City's anti-rat crusade has never been this normal
News, Stephen Mihm, Published on 13/08/2024
» New York City's mayor, Eric Adams, has opened up a new front of his war on rats. Mr Adams, who already made headlines for appointing a "rat czar" last year, has escalated his campaign against the city's ubiquitous rodents. Last week, he announced the creation of the "Rat Pack", which he billed as an "elite squad of anti-rat activists" who will take the fight to the enemy.
How women were pushed aside in Silicon Valley
News, Stephen Mihm, Published on 21/08/2017
» Why aren't there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for criticising the company's diversity program, believes that it's all about "innate dispositional differences" that leave women trailing men.
Planes overbooked since 1940s
News, Stephen Mihm, Published on 17/04/2017
» The revelations that airlines overbook as a policy and that they can forcibly remove passengers when their calculations go awry has shocked millions from Chicago to China. But it's a problem as old as the airline industry itself.