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Special
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U.S. job growth stays on streak, defying anxiety
At 3.5%, November was the 21st consecutive month with an unemployment rate of 4% or lower and the employment report featured payroll increases of 266,000, offering a counterpoint to recent anxieties about an escalating trade war and weakening global economy
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Best Books of 2019, picked by The New York Times critics
It has been a year of big, bold literary ambition. The New York Times' three daily book critics—Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai—share their thoughts about their favorites among the books they reviewed this year, each list alphabetical by author
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Who's hacking your Spotify?
Digital incursions can be unsettling but often impersonal—one doesn't think about one's hacker too often. That seems to be less true when it comes to music. When a Spotify account gets hacked, the hackee is able to see the music the hacker has chosen, and a portrait of the hacker often emerges
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Investment (What millennials want from their personal finances), Technology (Oil is the new data; An epidemic of AI misinformation), Business (GM crops like Golden Rice will save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children), and India (Nine women scientists who are doing phenomenal work; Why is India staring at a middle —income trap)
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Saudi Aramco to raise $25.6 billion in biggest IPO ever
And the total could go higher. The company said underwriters could decide to sell an additional quantity of shares that would raise the proceeds to $29.4 billion
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Uber: 3,045 sexual assaults reported in U.S. rides last year
Uber offers a rare window into its safety records, choosing to be transparent about cataloging sexual assaults, murders and crash fatalities as it has faced growing pressure over these issues
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Infographic: How many onions does India consume?
As onion prices rise and FM Nirmala Sitharaman runs into trouble over her remark of not eating the staple, a look at how the country's consumption stacks up against others
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RBI pauses on rate cuts, but more policy easing is on the cards: Economists
In its latest policy, the Central bank has drastically lowered India's FY20 growth projection
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Men want paid leave but don't use all of it. What stops them?
Two new reports on men's use of family leave show that for men, there's a gulf between their desires and their reality. Just as women have for decades, men are finding it hard to balance career and family in the ways they want
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How Google's founders slowly stepped away from their company
While the move seemed sudden, it was the culmination of a year-long separation between two of Silicon Valley's most prominent founders and the company they began 21 years ago