Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO, to be replaced by Andy Jassy from AWS CNN 2/3/2021 By Clare Duffy, CNN Business © Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images FILE: Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., listens during an Economic Club of Washington discussion in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, the worlds richest person, and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing after 25 years. Bezos, 54, is worth $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the worlds 500 wealthiest people. The couple met when they both worked at hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and they married in 1993. He founded Amazon a year later. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Tenderloin Leader Overcame Obstacles
(Ed Note: This piece first appeared in SF Senior Beat.)
Brenda Washington, A True Community Leader
When her two older sisters left home, 15-year-old Brenda Washington began caring for her two younger brothers, babysitting nieces and nephews and cooking for the family.
And the standards were high; things had to be done just right. “My dad was military. We were saluting kids. The nickel had to bounce off the bed.”
Mostly, she wanted to please her stepmother. Washington’s own mother died when she was five. Her older sister, 12 at the time, took over cooking and childcare. Her father soon remarried, but her stepmother, a Jehovah’s Witness, was also very strict. And she didn’t work – or cook or clean. Meanwhile, her father and his new wife went on to have five children. By the time Washington took over household duties, she was seeing to 10 siblings
N.Y. Has Fewest Cases Since December; Merkel’s Vow: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/1/2021
(Bloomberg)
The U.S. recorded more than 95,500 Covid-related deaths in January, the worst monthly total since the pandemic began, though fatalities this month are expected to be lower. A major snowstorm forced New York City to halt vaccinations for two days.
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to offer all Germans a vaccine by the end of September, even if new shots aren’t approved. Europe’s largest economy will have sufficient supplies to stand by its target despite delivery delays, she said after crisis talks with pharmaceutical executives, regional German leaders and European Commission officials.
As Warming Oceans Bring Tough Times to California Crab Fishers, Scientists Say Diversifying is Key to Survival
A study of the 2014 marine heat wave suggests that fishermen who turn to other species will fare better in future climate disruptions.
By Liza Gross
February 1, 2021
A fisherman hooks up crab pots to be taken off a boat at Pier 45 in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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California’s Dungeness crab fishermen have had a rough year. Poor meat quality, endangered whales migrating too close to shore and price disputes with wholesalers kept crab pots on boats for nearly two months. The delays left families without their cherished holiday centerpiece and fisherman without the funds that normally pay their bills the rest of the year.
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