Tag: Summer2017

A generation ago, urban centers were cauldrons of poverty, crime and broken families. Today, the trend has reversed. America’s small, rural towns and their inhabitants are now America’s new down and out. Many of these hamlets once survived on agriculture, some on manufacturing and some on their natural resources. But over the last 30 years,...

Cadet Donald Trump, at 13, found himself surrounded by military disciplinarians charged by his parents with controlling the young future president by bringing focus and structure to his life. He needed to learn how to play by the rules. And what better place than an environment where rules rule, right down to marching in line,...

Endeavour Energy, an Australian electric utility, is laying the foundation for what it sees as a massive turn in the power-generation industry: Electricity creation and distribution will become the province of small, local entities – town governments, co-ops, factories, small businesses or even neighborhoods. The change is being forced by the global rise of renewable...

Why did Donald Trump go to military school? He was a spoiled little brat. Back in the day, the greatest punishment a parent could threaten an out-of-control little bastard who wouldn’t behave was military school. I know firsthand. I was threatened by my parents… many times. But I was smarter than Donald Trump. Trump went...

While young tech whizzes are making new apps for your phone or designing cybersecurity protocols, Amazon Web Services is creating The Cloud that these devices need to operate – and Amazon is doing it with engineers whose average age is over 40. Some tech giants, such as Oracle and IBM, have a workforce with an...

Bioscientists at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have engineered biodegradable particles that reprogram key immune-system cells inside the body to kill cancer. These nanoparticles target T cells that are among the immune system’s front-line defenders against viruses and other invaders. The particles were loaded with specific genes that turned T cells into specialized leukemia...

Japan’s SoftBank tech conglomerate and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund have gathered $93 billion to back new ventures, from artificial intelligence to medical devices, across the technology landscape. The fund’s goal is to top reserves of $100 billion to plunk into public and private companies that will define the tech economy’s future. Called The Vision...

Taking steps to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions could amp the world economy by as much as 5 percent by 2050, according to a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, of which the US is a member. The organization is known for its support of free-market and free-trade policies. The 309-page study draws...

Paris has announced a ban on diesel vehicles starting in 2025; three other French cities will restrict diesel vehicles’ access to urban centers during pollution peaks. In Germany, Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich and Cologne are mulling restrictions on diesel-engine cars and trucks. Similar discussions are underway in Spain and the United Kingdom. As a result, diesel...

Russia did it! Russia invaded a US ally, Ukraine, and occupied the eastern reaches of the country. It hacked our elections. It broke into Democratic National Committee servers to steal thousands of emails detrimental to candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It has the undying support of US President Donald Trump because it has secretly brokered billion-dollar...