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By The New York Times

Juul
The Price of Cool: A Teen, a Juul and Nicotine Addiction
The New York Times - By JAN HOFFMAN
READING, Mass. — He was supposed to inhale on something that looked like a flash drive and threw off just a wisp of a cloud? What was the point? A skeptical Matt Murphy saw his first Juul at a high school
Hedge Funds
Hedge Fund Billionaire Battles Patrician Family for Campbell Soup
The New York Times - By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Daniel Loeb is happy to play the barbarian at the gate. He’s got the money, about $3.1 billion. He’s got the office, a sleek white space that is a quintessential hedge fund aerie, with art by the likes
Juul
She Couldn’t Quit Smoking. Then She Tried Juul.
The New York Times - By JAN HOFFMAN
Try as she might, Brittany Kligman couldn’t free herself of a pack-a-day cigarette habit, eight years in duration. And she ached to. She was mortified the time that a taxi driver sniffed as she entered
Bill de Blasio
Can New York City’s Mayor Be an Amazon Booster and Still Be Progressive?
The New York Times - By J. DAVID GOODMAN and WILLIAM NEUMAN
[What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox] For parts of his tenure, Mayor Bill de Blasio has been criticized for straying from his progressive roots, with some of his supporters
Sports
He Was 302 Pounds, but in This Battle, He’s David and Not Goliath
The New York Times - By DEVIN GORDON
Eric Winston took a beating for five teams over the course of his 12-year N.F.L. career, and this little anecdote, honestly, could be about any of them. So set aside for a moment which team it was (it
Los Angeles
When Getting Money Hurts
The New York Times - By PAULETTE PERHACH
When a 31-year-old stepped up to the microphone at a recent New York City conference on women and money, she asked a surprising question: “What do you do when getting money hurts?” She had been sexually
Flood Insurance
Flood Insurance: Knowing When the Risk Justifies the Cost
The New York Times - By PAUL SULLIVAN
Coastal areas flood just as surely as the sun rises and sets over the ocean’s waves. Rivers overflow their banks and fill the basements of homeowners who enjoy great views. And although lakes and ponds
Business
Real Estate’s Constant Conflict
The New York Times - By PAUL SULLIVAN
Do I rent or do I buy? It’s an eternal question, one that can’t be solved with economics alone. This is particularly fraught time to make such a seemingly monumental decision. Interest rates are rising,
News (U.S.)
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook as Furor Over Its Tactics Grows
The New York Times - By CECILIA KANG, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MIKE ISAAC
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive and chairman, held a conference call with reporters to discuss how the social network manages problematic posts and its community The
Federal Reserve
Fed Chairman Seeks to Reassure Those Left Behind by Roaring Economy
The New York Times - By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
HOUSTON — Jerome H. Powell walked the streets of a struggling neighborhood in this otherwise prospering city on Thursday before meeting with community leaders in a visit intended to demonstrate the Fed’s
Business Intelligence
‘No Morals’: Advertisers React to Facebook Report
The New York Times - By SAPNA MAHESHWARI
Advertisers are the financial engine of Facebook, but lately the relationship had gotten rocky. It got rockier on Thursday. Several top marketers were openly critical of the tech giant, a day after The
Asia Shares Mixed on Uncertainty Over Trade Tensions
The New York Times - By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Opinion
F.D.A. Seeks Restrictions on Teens’ Access to Flavored E-Cigarettes and a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
The New York Times - By SHEILA KAPLAN and JAN HOFFMAN
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced a series of restrictions aimed at combating a growing public health menace — flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products that have lured young people
New York City
The Look of Amazon’s HQ2 Winners, Before Amazon
The New York Times - By CHRISTOPHER LEE and HECTOR EMANUEL
Instead of one new home, Amazon chose two. Two places, with waterfront views and organic shops and abandoned buildings, that will someday house tens of thousands of high-tech workers. We spent much of
Technology
‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students.
The New York Times - By NELLIE BOWLES
BERKELEY, Calif. — A job at Facebook sounds pretty plum. The interns make around $8,000 a month, and an entry-level software engineer makes about $140,000 a year. The food is free. There’s a walking trail
Carsharing
Peugeot Returns to U.S. to Help People Get Around, but Not With Its Cars
The New York Times - By JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN
PARIS — Nearly three decades ago, Peugeot abandoned the United States market, stung by years of dwindling sales that were punctuated by a dispiriting 4,291 cars sold in 1990. Two years ago, Peugeot’s the
Investing
Dell Offers More Money to Investors to Ease Its Return to the Stock Market
The New York Times - By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
Dell agreed on Thursday to improve a takeover offer for owners of a special class of shares to about $23.9 billion, hoping to quell a shareholder rebellion against a deal meant to return the computer to
Travel
The Best Shopping Holiday for Travelers May Not Be Black Friday (but It’s Close)
The New York Times - By JUSTIN SABLICH
Those looking to score the cheapest airfares around this Thanksgiving holiday shopping season may have their patience tested. Between Black Friday, Cyber Monday and what some are calling “Travel Tuesday”
European Union
Pound Slides as Brexit Turmoil Hits Britain Again
The New York Times - By PETER EAVIS
Get the DealBook newsletter to make sense of major business and policy headlines — and the power-brokers who shape them. __________ Big declines in Britain’s currency, the pound, often have signaled wrenching
Molecular Biology
What to Know About Getting a Flu Shot This Year, No Matter Who’s Paying
The New York Times - By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD
When I went to a pharmacy in Brooklyn to get a flu shot last year, I was presented with a choice: one vaccine with three different strains of the flu virus for about $30 or, for just $10 more, four strains.
Social Media
Facebook Cuts Ties With Washington Firm That Sought to Discredit Social Network’s Critics
The New York Times - By MIKE ISAAC and JACK NICAS
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said Thursday that it had ended its relationship with a Washington-based consulting firm, Definers Public Affairs, which spread disparaging information about the social network’s
New York City
Why Amazon Chose the Wrong Locations for Its HQ2
The New York Times - By JAMES B. STEWART
So, the Amazon bragging rights go to New York City and the Washington, D.C., area. Why do I feel a little deflated? Amazon’s choices for its secondary headquarters should be mostly good news for a New
Autos
What Tesla’s ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’ Is Like for Model 3 Buyers
The New York Times - By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
Elon Musk has described Tesla’s troubles in getting cars to customers as “delivery logistics hell.” Jim Fyfe knows what Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, was talking about. A 44-year-old technology specialist
U.S. Politics
Damage Control at Facebook: 6 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation
The New York Times - By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and MATTHEW ROSENBERG
For more than a year, Facebook has endured cascading crises — over Russian misinformation, data privacy and abusive content — that transformed the Silicon Valley icon into an embattled giant accused of
Jeff Bezos
What We Really Think About Millennials at Work
The New York Times - By CHOIRE SICHA
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, even if you want them withheld. Letters may be edited. Be the Hero Two in
Amazon HQ2
Amazon HQ2: How New York and Virginia Won the Beauty Contest
The New York Times - By AMIE TSANG
After 14 months of pitches, meetings and offers of incentives and name changes, Amazon announced on Tuesday that its second headquarters would be on two sites: one in Long Island City, Queens, and another
Health
Green Burials: At the End of Life, Thinking Outside the Coffin
The New York Times - By WENDY MACNAUGHTON
Fundraising
Megan Abbott’s Work Diary: ‘My Psychiatrist Notes How Tired I Look, Which Is Great’
The New York Times - By ALEXANDRA ALTER
The villains in Megan Abbott’s twisted crime novels are often combative, hypercompetitive women and girls: elite cheerleaders; perfectionist gymnasts and their drill-sergeant moms; a cunning crime boss
Drinking
For a Buck and Sometimes a Buzz, Brewers Are Putting Cannabis Into Cans
The New York Times - By JOSHUA M. BERNSTEIN
For more than two decades, SweetWater Brewing Company’s best-seller has been its floral 420 Extra Pale Ale, the numerals slyly nodding to the beer’s April 20 birth date and the brewery’s fondness for 420