Women occupy 10% of the highest ranking jobs at the world’s leading architecture firms and urban planning offices, according to the World Bank. The world of urban planning has been dominated by men historically too, as Antonia Cundy wrote for the Financial Times.
Kai Ryssdal: I want to start with a line from this piece which will reveal my male privilege, but that’s kind of what this story is about. Every city in the world, you write, was designed and built by men, which, of course. But it’s kind of stunning to read that and think about it.
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Jerome Powell: I think we'll have a stronger recovery if we can just get at least some more fiscal support when it's appropriate — when it's appropriate and the size that Congress thinks is appropriate.
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Marshall-Genzer: He said the economy is still growing, but not like it was in May and June. He called the job gains in the spring “outsize.” But again Powell came back to the virus. He said it's a big headwind for the economy right now. He also cited the risk that households will run through what's left of their savings and pull back on spending.
Shuk Shuka: Your One-Stop Online Marketplace For All Things Middle Eastern Cuisine
"We envision Shuk Shuka as a marketplace that integrates a variety of Middle Eastern cultures including the different, unique products of those cultures. We hope to educate our customers about the origins, story and cultural emergence of all of our food no matter where in the Middle East it hails from. This includes where each ingredient is from, where each product is sourced, how it has developed up till now and more."
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High fashion in Italy faces "strange," uncertain times - Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal: I should tell people listening to this that you and I had an interview scheduled last week. We had some scheduling issues. It didn’t happen. But in a way, that’s good, because I think the interview we’re doing now, this week, with the new announcements in Italy and the virus situation in Europe, are quite a big change from the way things were last week.
Raffaella Grasso: Yes, they are changing very fast now, things are getting a little bit worse. And so everything is changing day by day. We are getting news from the government, taking new measures to try and stop this virus.
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The US government seized $1 billion in bitcoin from dark web marketplace Silk Road - The Verge
The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had seized the wallet's contents as part of a civil forfeiture case targeting the Silk Road. The government said it retrieved the roughly 70,000 bitcoins with the help of an unnamed hacker, whose identity is known to the government but who is simply referred to as "Individual X" in court documents .
In a press statement , US Attorney David L. Anderson celebrated the operation as a big success for the government. "Silk Road was the most notorious online criminal marketplace of its day," said Anderson. "The successful prosecution of Silk Road's founder in 2015 left open a billion-dollar question. Where did the money go? Today's forfeiture complaint answers this open question at least in part. $1 billion of these criminal proceeds are now in the United States' possession."
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Left Coast Seafood, a restaurant in Venice, Florida, had a decent summer, considering the pandemic. The restaurant reopened for sit-down service in May .
"The customers were a little bit apprehensive in the beginning, but as people became more comfortable, business picked up," co-owner Mariel Arbuckle Terone said.
“And as soon as that announcement was made, our phone started ringing off the hook,” Terone said.
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Runoff in Georgia Senate races would mean big spending - Marketplace
We're continuing to watch the ongoing Senate races in Georgia, where it's looking like there will be at least one runoff race .
The results could end up determining the balance of power in the Senate. That means a lot of campaign money will likely be flowing in Georgia's direction.
The stakes are so high in Georgia that candidates might raise more money than they can even spend, said Jeffrey Lazarus, political science professor at Georgia State University.
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