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Richest Man, Life Sentence
A Shenzhen court sentenced Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison yesterday for financial fraud. The 67-year-old was once Asia's richest man, with a reported net worth of $42 billion.
He appeared in the dock flanked by two officers, his first public sighting since 2023. The company inflated revenues by roughly $80 billion across two years and defaulted on more than $300 billion.
Two of his sons and more than 50 executives received terms from 22 months to 18 years. Liquidators have recovered $255 million so far. Chinese home prices are down 20% since 2021. What it did to housing.
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Check Your Freezer
The FDA raised a Publix berry recall to its highest risk level this week, meaning the agency believes eating the product could cause serious illness or death. Twelve people have been infected, four hospitalized.
Publix pulled all lots of GreenWise organic frozen blueberries and mixed berries in late July. The best-by dates run into 2028, so the bags are still sitting in home freezers across eight states.
Four UPCs are affected: 41415-06453, 41415-12053, 41415-06753, and 41415-12153. Publix is issuing full refunds on returns. The strain can cause kidney failure in young children, older adults, and immunocompromised people.
The move: check the UPC on any GreenWise berries in your freezer, then return them for a refund. | The FDA's product photos and codes
The Road Exploded
A highway through Greenville, Texas, buckled in late July after a week of 99 to 102 degree heat, forming a two-foot ramp at a pavement joint. A pickup hit it and went airborne.
Engineers call it a blowup. Concrete slabs expand past their joints until they shove each other upward. Three weeks earlier, ten miles away, the same highway softened enough that cars pulled up chunks of it.
July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States. Blowups closed interstates in Maryland and Louisiana this summer. San Antonio, Phoenix, and Los Angeles are testing white pavement to reflect heat. The moment it launched the truck.
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Relationship audit worth running
Nobody sat down and decided you'd be the one who books the flights. It just happened, and then it happened for eleven years, and now you're quietly furious about a job you never took.
Therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab calls these silent agreements. You do the laundry, you plan the trips, you're the one everyone calls first. None of it was ever discussed, which means none of it can be renegotiated, which is exactly why it turns into resentment.
Her fix is unglamorous. Name one role that's wearing on you and say so out loud. Not as a complaint. As a renegotiation: this worked for years, circumstances changed, let's redo it. The discomfort of that conversation is smaller than the fight you're saving up for.
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