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The college drop-out turned self-made billionaire invented a revolutionary blood test - that never worked. Now she faces trial for fraud By Mick Brown 31 August 2021 • 9:28am The woman, the myth, the flawed genius: Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos  CREDIT : Theranos In September 2015,  Elizabeth Holmes , founder of Theranos, a company that claimed to have developed a blood-testing process that would revolutionise medicine, appeared on stage as one of the keynote guests at the meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, alongside Bill Clinton and the Chinese investor and founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma. In her uniform of black turtleneck sweater, black jacket and black trousers, and radiating an aura of calm and self-assurance, Holmes took part in a conversation about the role of technology and entrepreneurialism in affecting global change. Access to health information, she told the audience of policy-makers, thinkers, and the heads of corporations and foundations, w...

 R ooting around the basement of my family home in Mannheim, south-west   Germany , some years ago, I discovered evidence that in 1938 my grandfather had taken advantage of antisemitic Nazi policies to buy a small business from a Jewish family at a low price. I also found letters from the only survivor of this family: his relatives had been killed at Auschwitz. After the war he wrote asking for reparations, but my grandfather refused to face up to his responsibilities. I was shocked. Seeking to investigate my family’s Nazi history for a book I was working on, I started by calling on two first-hand witnesses. My aunt Ingrid, born in 1936 and who suffered through wartime bombardments and postwar poverty, excused her father’s actions: “We can’t put ourselves in their place. They lived under a dictatorship – you had to be a hero to resist.” My father, Volker, born in 1943 and part of the generation in the 60s that forced German society to face its Nazi past, was much less lenient:...

  Choice Theory:   The belief that individuals choose to commit a crime, looking at the opportunities before them, weighing the benefit versus the punishment, and deciding whether to proceed or not. Classical Theory:  Similar to the choice theory, this theory ascertains that people think before they proceed with criminal actions; that when one commits a crime, it is because the individual decided that it was advantageous to commit the crime. Conflict Theory:  The conflict theory holds that crime results from the conflicts in society among the different social classes, and that laws actually arise from necessity as a result of conflict, rather than a general consensus. Critical Theory:  Critical theory upholds the belief that a small few, the elite of the society, decide laws and the definition of crime; those who commit crimes disagree with the laws that were created to keep control of them. Labeling Theory:  Those who follow the labeling theory of criminol...

  Home Today Topics Writers Podcasts Magazine More Account Coffee House Ian Williams How China is stoking racial tensions in  the West 2 May 2021, 8:00am Text Comments Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social media. It also made for a productive afternoon for Zhao Lijian. From his Beijing office, the Chinese government spokesman retweeted 20 posts and shared the video 12 times on his official Twitter account. ‘We can’t help but wonder, who will be the next victim? When will it all end?’ he asked his almost 900,000 followers. Zhao isn’t the only one who’s been busy. In the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings on March 16, Chinese state media used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to stoke a narrative of American racism and hatred. One Twitter post from  Global Times , a Communist party tabloid, shows the Statue of Liberty, gun in hand, towering over a tiny cardboard cut-out figure marked ‘Asian’, wi...