The Time’s Up Foundation—the star-studded nonprofit concocted and bankrolled by power players in politics and media at the height of the #MeToo movement, back in 2018—seems to have lived up to its name in recent weeks with a spate of high-profile exits. Board member Roberta Kaplan and CEO Tina Tchen both resigned in August, after…
The young woman previously sought an abortion, but was far beyond Japan’s legal cut-off point for terminating pregnancies. Photo: BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty ImagesA young Japanese woman admitted to killing her baby after giving birth at a bathroom in Haneda Airport in Tokyo in 2019.Koyuri Kitai, 23, told a court at the start of her…
image source, Getty ImagesRelatives of people who died on 9/11 have read out victims’ names, as the US marks 20 years since the deadliest terror attacks on its soil.Many struggled to hold back tearsat the ceremony held at Ground Zero, the site of the Twin Towers destroyed in the attacks by al-Qaeda militants.”Twenty years feels…
BPO TALKS (Clockwise from top left) Institute for Labor Studies senior officer Ellah Delerio, The Manila Times President and CEO Dante ‘Klink’ Ang 2nd, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd, IT & Business Process Association of the Philippines lead for talent attraction and academe linkages Zoe Diaz de Rivera, and Times business columnist Ben Kritz during…
The Sept. 11 terror attacks on U.S. soil were felt by first responders watching the events unfold on their television screens in Saskatoon. Author of the article: Thia James Staff Sgt Grant Obst was a police officer on the Explosive Device Unit at the time of 9/11. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix Grant Obst…
In the summer of 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was at the height of her power. The media and her cadre of distinguished supporters were hailing the self-made billionaire as the next Steve Jobs, someone set to revolutionize the world of medicine with a device that could run hundreds of blood tests—all with the prick…
As they sifted through the wreckage of their childhood home in Mount Airy, members of the Robinson family were hunting for memories.They came in the form of a dozen family photo albums, somehow preserved amid the rubble. There was nothing much else to salvage as most of the house was destroyed. It had been in…
I can’t remember the last time I saw a monarch butterfly. I remember chasing them as a child—how I’d catch a glimpse of fluttering stained-glass wings and race after, reaching up to join their zig-zagging flight. I remember it being a moment of real joy. But I don’t remember it being particularly special. Growing up,…
Andrew Kinsey knew that even after being vaccinated against the coronavirus, there was a chance he could still fall ill with covid-19.He just never expected to feel this lousy from a case doctors call mild. For nearly a week, Kinsey felt like he had been “run over by a truck.” He struggled to walk a…
Everybody’s going carbon neutral these days, from the big boys – Amazon, Microsoft, , Starbucks, JetBlue – to your favorite outdoor brand, even ski resorts. Probably your neighborhood coffee roaster, too. What’s not to like? Becoming carbon neutral means cutting greenhouse gas emissions as much as you can, then offsetting what you can’t avoid with…
