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www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Tuesday Nov 26, 2019 1 [The New + the Next]( [The New + the Next]( [Can Saudi Aramco’s IPO Bring Peace to the Middle East?]( Saudi Arabia needs stability to attract investors. That's creating a rare window for peace with Iran. At the yellow desert stone convention center at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Riyadh, people were chatting about the potential size of what Saudi Arabia hopes will be the world’s biggest-ever IPO. This was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s end-of-October “Davos of the Desert” conclave — formally called the Future Investment Initiative summit, held as Saudi Aramco, the Saudi oil giant, prepares to launch its IPO on Dec. 4, expecting to fetch $25 billion in investment. Just six weeks earlier, the cautiously optimistic conversations around the Aramco IPO at the Riyadh summit would have been hard to imagine. When a series of deafening explosions rocked the world’s largest refinery in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, in the early hours of Sept. 14, fresh regional conflict appeared only hours away. Fire also rained on the oil collection center of Khurais. As the smoke and haze cleared from the sprawling oil facilities, Saudi Arabia’s oil managers realized that they had lost 85 percent of their daily production. Yet even as the U.S. and Israel quickly blamed Iran for the attacks, Saudi Arabia held its horses, reluctant to name Tehran. [READ MORE]( 2 [News + Politics]( [News + Politics]( [Meet the Democrats’ Hired Impeachment Gun]( Barry Berke put his corporate law career on hold to weave together the strands of impeachment on the House Judiciary Committee. Barry Berke had a complicated case on his hands. His client, SAC Capital Advisors fund manager Michael Steinberg, had been arrested for insider trading. The bespectacled, Harvard-educated attorney had to distill a complex set of facts into a simple argument infused with certainty. “Caught in the crossfire of aggressive investigations of others, there is no basis for even the slightest blemish on his spotless reputation,” Berke told the press. A jury convicted Steinberg, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, but the charges were tossed out on appeal, in part because of Berke’s ability to make the case that the government’s prosecution, via a chain of informants, was overzealous. Now, U.S. House Democrats are counting on Berke to weave together the strands of evidence for a compelling narrative about a much different aggressive government action. The goal: to impeach the president of the United States. [READ MORE]( 3 [Around the World]( [Around the World]( [Belgium, Where the State Pays $2 Billion for Your Housecleaner]( It's a popular scheme — but a costly one too. A couple of years ago, a time-tracking exercise made me realize that, after work and sleep, cleaning my flat was the one activity I spent most of my time on. Seeing on paper that I spent more time with my microfiber cloths than with the people or Netflix shows I cared about was a bit disheartening. It was time, I decided, to do what many of my millennial friends had already done. I, a childless twentysomething living in a modestly sized, one-bedroom flat, would get a cleaner. In Belgium, that’s a little more guilt-free than it might be if I were living elsewhere. In 2004, Belgium instituted a heavily subsidized service voucher system specifically for the cleaning industry. People like me can buy vouchers online to pay for a domestic worker’s services. The cleaners end up getting paid $12 per hour on average, but consumers only shell out around $8 per hour (depending on which region of Belgium they live in). The government pays the rest of the tab. [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by: Smartsheet]( [Prepare for the Future of the Workplace]( It wasn’t that long ago that “going to work” meant heading out to the fields — in fact, not even a century ago, 90 percent of work took place on farms. Then came factories and offices, telecommuting and shared “workspace solutions.” The change has been revolutionary, transforming everything about how and where we work, and the pace isn’t slowing down. We’ve been told that robots will take away our jobs, but sci-fi predictions aside, what does the future hold? With the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning, will certain human skills become even more crucial? Better communication, greater creativity and emotional intelligence are just some of the tools for navigating the decades to come. Sure, the robots may be coming, but uniquely human traits will be the driver of success in the workplace of the future. [Read more.]( 4 [True Stories]( [When Deadly X-Rays Were Used for Hair Removal]( X-rays can kill you. But these women didn't know that. 5 [Good Sh*t]( [Your Loved One, Turned Into 25 Stones]( Many people don’t know what to do with the ashes of a loved one. This is a way to give those ashes meaning. 6 [Around the World]( [Is the Global Slowdown Over?]( For months, the world has been bracing for a recession. Now, financial markets suggest the worst could be over. Is it premature to celebrate? 7 [Around the World]( [Who Fights Bride Kidnapping? Meet Kyrgyzstan’s Unlikely Survivor]( Gazbubu Babaiarova, who lived through a kidnapping herself, is fighting to end her country’s outdated tradition. 8 [Around the World]( [Pee’d Off Dutch Women Wage War for Gender-Neutral Toilets]( From design challenges to startups, the Dutch are developing a wave of gender-neutral public toilet solutions. 9 [True Stories]( [The Stolen Campaign Documents That Helped Reagan Win the Presidency]( Just before the presidential debate between President Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan in 1980, the Reagan campaign received an unexpected boost. 10 [The New + the Next]( [How the Humble Pineapple Is Curbing Guinean Immigration to Europe]( Thousands of migrants once fled the West African nation, but pineapple cultivation is helping put a stop to that. You Should Know This [Wish Work Felt More Like Play? 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