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Friday, June 14, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaning Out at Facebook?

Today: Gene Tests Likely to Spread , My Uncle the Serial Killer: 'Night Stalker' Richard Ramirez's Niece on His Death , Turkish PM Concedes to Protesters
Cheat Sheet: Morning

June 14, 2013
EXIT PLAN

Facebook's rock star chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who spent much of the spring promoting her buzzy book 'Lean In,' insists that she's not leaving the social network. But status updates are prone to change, writes The Daily Beast's Daniel Gross.

Freedom

Immediately after the Supreme Court's ruling Thursday against the patenting of genes, several laboratories said they would begin genetic testing for breast cancer, an early sign of the likelihood that the tests will become more widely available and affordable. "It levels the playing field; we can all go out and compete," the head of one testing company said. The ruling broke a nearly two-decade monopoly by Myriad Genetics on testing for mutations of the BRCA genes that indicate breast cancer. It will not, however, have much effect on the pharmaceutical or genetically engineered agriculture industries, both of which more often use synthetic DNA that is not covered by the decision.

'NIGHT STALKER'

Shelly Ramirez's uncle, known as the Night Stalker, murdered 13 people—and masturbated in front of her when she visited him in prison. In the wake of his death, she talks to The Daily Beast's Christine Pelisek about growing up in his shadow.

BACK TO NORMAL?

The raucous protests that have rocked Istanbul over the past week seem to be wrapping up after representatives for the demonstrators met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan overnight Thursday. Erdoğan agreed to postpone controversial plans to remake Istanbul's Gezi Park, which has become the center of the protests, until after a court ruling on the matter. His government had planned to build a shopping center in the shape of an Ottoman-era barracks on the space, igniting resistance from Turkish professionals, students, and workers against what they saw as encroachment by an Islamic government on the country's secular laws. Three people have been killed and as many as 5,000 detained in Turkey's worst unrest in years.

Boys' Club

President Obama's surprise appointment of Avril Haines, a White House lawyer, to deputy CIA director highlighted a glass ceiling women still face at the spy agency. Former director David Petraeus was startled to discover that women held only 19 percent of the CIA's top posts, and ordered an internal study of the problem. The report, released without much attention this spring, concluded that the CIA's culture fails to sponsor and promote female officers. Among other issues, the report's co-author said that the agency's failure to address work-life balance issues made it particularly difficult for women to pursue top jobs. The problem is common across government agencies, where only 31 percent of top positions are held by women.


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