Jon’’s NewsCloud Journal

The recently ousted head of the 787 Dreamliner program said Wednesday Boeing may build its next plane differently — axing the globe-spanning supply chain that has caused its recent problems and concentrating major partner factories at a single manufacturing super-site.
But that big prize won’t necessarily be in Washington state, said Boeing vice president Mike Bair.
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The nation’s largest urban car-sharing company, Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar, is absorbing Seattle-based Flexcar in a move that could hasten the spread of a business whose rapid growth relies on lifestyle marketing as much as its promise to save people money.
Executives said Tuesday the two will combine by week’s end to create a company three times […]

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Pretty impressive, but only a start.
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America has a big problem with illegal immigration, but a big part of it stems from the word “illegal.” It pollutes the debate. It blocks solutions. Used dispassionately and technically, there is nothing wrong with it. Used as an irreducible modifier for a large and largely decent group of people, it is badly damaging. And […]

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The long-term battle is one that fire experts suggest cannot be won, even with the better building codes and evacuation plans that have become a staple of government here and across much of the West. As the events of this week illustrate — at least 480,000 acres burned, 1,575 residences destroyed and 7 people killed […]

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Very cool, if it works.
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In-depth story on the rise and fall of the christian right.
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In-depth story about global warming, decreasing snowpack, and the threat to US cities.
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