The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions. By Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld, New York Times — What kind of monster is Amazon? Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail Could you work at Amazon? Probably not. You’re too soft. Amazon is…
The dominican Time Bomb New York Times Like so many visitors to the Dominican Republic before and since, I saw a deep vein of racism and xenophobia that a world more interested in the country’s beaches and ballplayers generally prefers to ignore. That changed last month, when news spread of the Caribbean nation’s plan toexpel…
Dino Grandoni New York Times Researchers say they have discovered something that teenagers already know: Young people use the Internet to maintain friendships made at school or work, but also to forge entirely new ones with peers they meet while browsing social networks like Instagram or playing a game like Call of Duty. In a…
By ELIZABETH BECKER New York Times Now tourism accounts for one in 11 jobs worldwide. In 2012 the global tourism industry counted a record one billion trips abroad, and many more tourists travel within their home countries. (…) Outraged by tourists’ boorish and disrespectful behavior, and responding to the complaints of their constituents, local officials around…
New York Times From posing naked at Machu Picchu to filming their dives from hotel balconies into courtyard swimming pools, travelers across the world have been indulging in what officials and travel experts describe as an epidemic of narcissism and recklessness, as they try to turn vacation hubs and historic sites into their personal video…
Huffington Post Mona Eltahawy n’est pas seulement une journaliste engagée dans la lutte pour la liberté de l’information au Moyen-Orient, célèbre pour ses reportages au New York Times. Elle est aussi une féministe convaincue qui ose s’attaquer à ce qu’elle définit comme «le plus grand tabou du monde arabe»: la parole des femmes. Son livre…
Abby Goodnough New York Times The same forces that have made instant messaging and video calls part of daily life for many Americans are now shaking up basic medical care. Health systems and insurers are rushing to offer video consultations for routine ailments, convinced they will save money and relieve pressure on overextended primary care…
By Karen Elliott House Illustrated. 308 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. (Bibliothèque de Westmount) Gagnante d’un prix Pulitzer, elle a passé les trente dernières années à couvrir le royaume. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia—as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street…
My 20-year struggle with bipolar disorder. New York Times The manila folder is full of faded faxes. The top sheet contains a brief description of my first medically confirmed manic episode, more than 20 years ago, when I was admitted as a teenager to U.C.L.A.’s Neuropsychiatric Institute: “Increased psychomotor rate, decreased need for sleep (about…
JOSHUA COHEN New York Times At the same time, I was investigating the more practical, or just more traditional, alternatives to Google: Bing (owned by Microsoft), Yahoo (operated by Google back then and by Bing now), Info.com (an aggregator of Yahoo/Bing, Google and others) and newer sites like DuckDuckGo and IxQuick (which don’t track your…