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- Gabrielle Kennedy, an infant who died in January after a driver delivering for Amazon rear-ended her mother’s car. - Sarah Rice for ProPublica
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Amazon Pushes Fast Shipping but Avoids Responsibility for the Human Cost - New York Times (mirror)
- “So what if the packages take three days instead of two?” Brian Kennedy said. “You know, it ain’t that big a deal to me. But maybe some people, if they don’t get it in two days, they raise Cain.”
His son agreed. “These big powerhouse companies like Amazon should realize what the impact is when they’re speeding up deliveries,” Chad Kennedy said. They should see “the tragic families that have lost somebody or have gotten hurt from somebody’s negligence,” he said, “just because they want a package a day before another service.”
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Handwriting: an elegy - 1843 Magazine, The Economist
- Ann Wroe is obituaries editor of The Economist
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- "Above all things, get abroad, see the sunlight, and everything that is to be seen." - John Singer Sargent
(Corfu: Lights and Shadows, 1909)
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