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An infrastructure plan that ignores climate change fails to address the real problem

Feb 19, 2018

President Trump announced details of his long-awaited infrastructure plan last week, one of the central elements of his general election campaign and a proposal that was expected to boast more support among mod...

With hurdles still ahead, hyperloop can’t replace vital infrastructure spending

West Side Story

Jul 25, 2017

Innovation, Opinion, Policy, Science

Elon Musk’s proposed hyperloop system has been widely embraced as a prospective magic bullet for America’s ever-worsening infrastructure problems. First proposed by Musk in 2012, the system uses pods to transp...

1.3 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions leads to a savings of $12 billion

Charles Omedo

Dec 3, 2014

Health

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a report to the effect that no fewer than 1.3 million lives have been saved from certain death that could have arisen from hospital-acquired condition...

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