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The Two-Way
7:39 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Tornado In Moore, Okla.: Friday's Developments

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On Thursday in Moore, Okla., Rita Green carried a plastic bin of items as she helped a family friend salvage things from a home.
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As the residents of Moore, Okla., and surrounding communities continue to recover from Monday's devastating tornado that killed at least 24 people and injured more than 375, we're keeping an eye on the news from there:

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The Two-Way
7:32 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Book News: Judge's Comments Bruising To Apple's Price-Fixing Case

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A person walks by an Apple Store on April 23, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
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The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

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The Two-Way
7:03 am
Fri May 24, 2013

'White Flash And Cold Water' After Bridge Collapse In Wash.

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The scene near Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday evening after part of an Interstate-5 bridge collapsed into the Skagit River.
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Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 7:25 am

Miracle is the word that comes to Dan Sligh's mind after he and his wife Sally survived a plunge off a highway bridge in Washington State Thursday evening.

Sligh tells The Seattle Times that they were driving on Interstate 5 near Mount Vernon, Wash., around 7 p.m. local time when he saw a truck carrying a heavy load strike the southbound side of a bridge over the Skagit River. Moments later, a long chunk of the bridge began collapsed into the river.

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Parallels
4:02 am
Fri May 24, 2013

China's Air Pollution: Is The Government Willing To Act?

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Skyscrapers are obscured by heavy haze in Beijing on Jan. 13. Air pollution remains a serious, sometimes overwhelming, problem, but researchers say environmental technology is available to solve it.
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A woman wears a mask as she stands near a giant display depicting blue skies during a day of heavy pollution on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 6.
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Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 5:34 am

Denise Mauzerall arrived in Beijing this year at a time that was both horrifying and illuminating. The capital was facing some of its worst pollution in recent memory and Mauzerall, a Princeton environmental engineering professor, was passing through on her way to a university forum on the future of cities.

"I took the fast train from Beijing to Shanghai, and looking out the window for large sections of that trip you couldn't see more than 20 feet," Mauzerall recalled.

To Mauzerall, the lesson was both surprising and inescapable.

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Planet Money
3:18 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Can This Man Bring Silicon Valley To Yangon?

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Educated in the U.S., Aung worked in Silicon Valley for a number of tech companies, including Google, before returning to Myanmar. Here he is at his office shortly after closing time. His employees keep to a tight schedule starting early in the morning and leaving at 5:30 pm every day.
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Aung gives one of his employees feedback during a monthly meeting. Giving regular feedback is one of the management techniques he brought from Silicon Valley to Myanmar. After the meeting he hands his employees thick envelopes which contain their salaries in cash. Even though Nay eventually hopes to develop online and mobile payment services, most of his employees still prefer to be paid in cash.
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One of Aung's employees holds up the receipt of a payment he is about to deliver to one of Aung's partner hotels. Even though Aung enables tourists to handle their travel bookings online, he still has to deliver cash to his partners by hand.
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One of the main challenges Aung faces in running an Internet Startup in Myanmar is not having a consistent Internet connection. There are several Internet and electricity outages every day.
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Nay Aung is the founder of Oway, a tech startup in Yangon, Myanmar. He used Taste Cafe as his unofficial office when he started his company — in part because it was one of the few places in Myanmar with a stable Internet connection.
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Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 5:34 am

Like a proud father, Nay Aung opens up his MacBook Air to show me the Myanamar travel website he's built. But we wait 30 seconds for the site to load, and nothing happens.

"Today is a particularly bad day for Internet," he says. This is life in Myanmar today: Even an Internet entrepreneur can't always get online.

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