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,...
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Trump presidency safe: He’s back in military school
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,...
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As the decline of rural counties and once thriving small cities accelerated, there was high media hopes and “expert” expectations that the new world order of the internet and telework would bring young families and small companies back to the romance of small town living. But today small towns in the central US are locked...
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The new electric grid: Smaller power sources run by local governments
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...
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The electric utility industry’s shift toward microgrids is global. Worldwide, microgrids will be a $23 billion market sector by 2021, according to the research firm GlobalData. This is part of the electric-utility industry’s long period of transformation: The business model of monopoly ownership of a centralized generation and distribution system is dying. The industry is...
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Trump flump: A military- school brat
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...
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Older tech workers, please apply
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...
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Tech companies are realizing that kids fresh from college might have the latest skills, but the companies also are learning that the grounded infrastructure that powers innovation will demand skills won through experience. Bigger tech companies, and savvy small ones, are seeking to diversify the age of their workforce.
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Human-made nanoparticles kill leukemia
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...
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Immunotherapy is showing special promise in treating cancers. Combining innovations in early detection with in-body treatments, as the Hutchinson group has developed, could reduce cancer from a major disease to a major inconvenience by 2050.