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Essay | A Weight-Loss Drug Changed My Life. Will It Solve My Problem? - WSJ (Full Access)

In August, as I prepared to plunge the first syringe of a new weight-loss “wonder drug” into the fatty tissue in my upper thigh, I wondered: What would it feel like to stop being hungry? Since then I’ve lost 40 pounds. This week, I injected the last dose I felt I could afford, and now I’m wondering: What happens when I go back to wanting to eat normally again?

Hunger had, in many ways, come to define so much about my life. Most days, I thought often about food, even right after eating. Fifteen years ago, just before I turned 30, I was 100 pounds overweight. I committed to a rigorous diet and exercise program and lost it all in one year, but then like so many in my situation, gradually I gave in to food cravings and began to gain it back again. Around my 44th birthday last year, just months after completing a grueling endurance hike across the Grand Canyon and back, I hit a troubling milestone. I weighed in at 233 pounds, up about 50 pounds from my low. After all those years of trying to maintain my weight loss, eventually I had gained half of it back, and now I had officially crossed the “obese” threshold in body-mass index for the first time in 14 years.

Dieting wasn’t working any more. Now and again, I would try to lay off sugar or carbs, or count calories, or try any number of new ideas to change my relationship with food, but in the end all had failed—or, I thought, my will had failed; I had failed. When I would fall short of my target weight year after year despite hours of weekly exercise, I would think to myself: I am pretty good at a lot of things, and usually, I can accomplish my goals. But not this one. Sometimes, I would lie awake at night and wish that I could find a genie who would make me thin. I knew it was absurd, but such was my state of mind.

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Citigroup Plans to Cut 20,000 Jobs - WSJ (Full Access)

Citigroup plans to eliminate some 20,000 jobs by the end of 2026, marking the next phase of the bank’s most dramatic restructuring plan in decades.

The cuts will trim about 10% of Citi’s head count, which totaled 200,000 in December excluding the staff employed by a Mexico business that is being spun off. Citi detailed its cost-cutting plans on Friday, when it also announced a fourth-quarter loss.

Citi Chief Executive Jane Fraser took over the bank in 2021 with a mandate to streamline and simplify what was once the world’s largest financial-services firm. Its supermarket of financial products and far-flung international operations, once hailed as the hallmarks of a unique franchise, now add up to a bank worth significantly less than many of its closest peers.

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What if You Never Had to Charge Your Gadgets Again? - WSJ (Full Access)

After decades of trying, consumer electronics companies are rolling out a solar technology that mimics photosynthesis in plants. It lets devices charge indoors and, in some cases, can eliminate batteries entirely.

This new light-harvesting tech is fundamentally different from the crystalline silicon-based panels on rooftops and in solar farms, and also from the amorphous silicon cells on the kind of solar-powered calculators that were once ubiquitous. This new tech is based on principles first explored by chemists in the 1960s and turned into workable solar cells in the 1980s. It’s taken until now for versions of these cells tough enough for consumer applications to be manufactured on the scale required for mainstream adoption.

Now, companies including Ambient Photonics and Exeger are offering solar cells of this kind, known as a “dye-sensitized solar cell.” They are lightweight, bendable, made from common materials, and can be manufactured cheaply, in a type of printing process. Sharp is also working on dye-sensitized solar cells, although its version is rigid, and made with the same equipment used to make LCD panels.

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U.S.-Led Yemen Strikes Highlight Risk of Broader Middle East Conflict - WSJ (Full Access)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels responded defiantly to U.S.-led strikes against them Friday, saying the attacks had failed to cause significant damage and that they remained undeterred from launching more attacks in the region.

The strikes—and fresh promises of retaliation—threaten to escalate monthslong violence in the Middle East into a broader conflict and turn the Red Sea into a new flashpoint between Washington and the various Iran-backed groups arrayed across the region.

“Our response to the American-British aggression is inevitably coming; this isn’t going to deter us,” said Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam. Attacks in the Red Sea, primarily on shipping lanes, would continue in solidarity with Gaza following Israel’s invasion, he added.

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