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  1. PhotoJeffrey Epstein in 2008. After pleading guilty to prostitution charges that year, he continued to earn huge fees by showing wealthy clients how to lower their taxes.
    CreditUma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post, via Associated Press

    What Jeffrey Epstein Did to Earn $158 Million From Leon Black

    Mr. Epstein specialized in aggressively pitching ways to minimize paying taxes. And not just to Mr. Black, the private equity chief executive who was his main benefactor in his later years.

    By Matthew Goldstein and

  1. PhotoBrazilian indigenous people waiting in São Paulo to receive a coronavirus vaccine from the Chinese company Sinovac. Brazilian officials have complained that Chinese companies have been slow to ship the doses and ingredients.
    CreditVictor Moriyama for The New York Times

    China Wanted to Show Off Its Vaccines. It’s Backfiring.

    Delays, inconsistent data, spotty disclosures and the country’s attacks on Western rivals have marred its ambitious effort to portray itself as a leader in global health.

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  2. PhotoUnion organizers talk to Amazon workers when they are stopped at a traffic light outside the warehouse in Alabama.
    CreditBob Miller for The New York Times

    Amazon Union Drive Takes Hold in Unlikely Place

    Workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., are to vote next month on whether to unionize, the largest and most viable effort of its kind involving the technology giant.

    By Michael Corkery and

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    The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand

    Many people want a pandemic baby, but some sperm banks are running low. So women are joining unregulated Facebook groups to find willing donors, no middleman required.

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    An Oral History of the World’s Biggest Coupon

    Bed Bath & Beyond’s plus-size mailer, known as Big Blue, has made it to TV, eBay, even a mobster’s kitchen drawer. “The poor mailmen,” the company’s former marketing V.P. said, “what we did to them.”

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