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Forbes, September 15, 2014

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  • Release Date: 2014-09-15
  • Genre: Business & Personal Finance
  • © 2014 Forbes

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Welcome to Forbes for September 15th, 2014 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles. In the cover story, we'll tell you about, "Medicine's Manhattan Project: Can the World's Richest Doctor Fix Health Care?" Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is using a multi-billion-dollar war chest and massive amounts of data to fix health care and cure disease. His biggest enemy might be his own hype.

Also, "How LEDs Are Going to Change the Way We Look at Cities" Forty percent of the average city’s electric bill goes to street lighting, and close to half of that is wasted. Now, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Shanghai, Copenhagen, and scores of other cities around the world are deploying LEDs in the struggle between light and dark.

Next, "The Future of Manufacturing as Told in Four Objects" Fungus buildings. Algorithmic chairs. Germ-fighting iPhone cases. Software giant Autodesk and others are ushering in a revolution in materials science you may not even see coming.

Then, "Inside the Billionaire Family Feud that Nearly Killed Market Basket" The biggest story in New England over the past few months couldn’t have been more of a labor-management fairy tale if Hans Christian Andersen had used his dip pen. Too bad it's not true.

Followed by, "Snapchat Billionaires Protect Their Stakes by Settling with Ousted Cofounder Reggie Brown" Snapchat's disappearing act makes billionaires out of its two twenty-something founders.

We'll also tell you about, "Graceland West: The History of Elvis' Palm Springs Palace" A true king has more than one castle, and Elvis was no exception. In addition to his Memphis palace, Graceland, Presley had homes in Las Vegas and Palm Springs, Calif. But the latter property, at 845 West Chino Canyon Road (which is listed at $2.99 million), had a storied history before and after Elvis--because McDonald's mogul Ray Kroc and Frankie Valli also called it home.

And in our final story, "The Jerry Jones Conundrum" How Starbucks Grew Mighty.

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