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People have built some amazing things, but sometimes our architectural ambitions have outpaced our resources or abilities. Scattered across the globe are the skeletal remains of construction projects...
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It’s bad enough that North Korea, an implacable enemy of the United States, has the nuclear bomb. To make matters worse, it has ICBMs that can reach the American mainland. But what few people...
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In the popular imagination, nuclear power plants conjure fears of catastrophic explosions and radiation leaks, such as the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986. In reality, hundreds of reactors...
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The devastating wildfires consuming Los Angeles have driven home to the world the intensity of the water crisis in California and other southwestern states. A decades-long drought has inspired all...
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The first patent issued for an invention by an American inventor was in 1790 for an improvement to potash production, and it was signed by President George Washington. Since then, over 10 million...
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The Olympics happen only once every four years, and that’s a good thing for the cities that host them. These days the Games are a multi-billion-dollar business that requires cities to build new...
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When investment programs or publications refer to the capital goods or industrials sector, they are broadly describing industrial level manufacturing and distribution of heavy machinery products. The...
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