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Nuclear Plant Settles Cancer, Contamination Lawsuits
Solstice Advanced Materials, the corporate owner of a nuclear fuel facility at the heart of President Donald Trump’s push for a nuclear renaissance, has agreed to pay $80 million to settle claims that the plant for decades spewed radiation over an Illinois town, sickened residents and contaminated properties.
Nuclear Plant Settles Cancer, Contamination Lawsuits
Solstice Advanced Materials, the corporate owner of a nuclear fuel facility at the heart of President Donald Trump’s push for a nuclear renaissance, has agreed to pay $80 million to settle claims that the plant for decades spewed radiation over an Illinois town, sickened residents and contaminated properties.
Trump-Backed Nuclear Plant Settles Cancer, Contamination Lawsuits
Photographer: Noah Sheldon for Bloomberg Businessweek (Bloomberg) -- Solstice Advanced Materials, the corporate owner of a nuclear fuel facility at the heart of President Donald Trump’s push for a nuclear renaissance, has agreed to pay $80 million...
Big Agriculture Is Stopping Polluted Water From Being Cleaned in Iowa Original
In the town of Remsen, in Northwest Iowa, Steven Pick spent 34 years working at City Hall. As the city clerk, he rebuilt Remsen’s ball fields and swimming pool and served as president and vice president of the chamber of commerce.
Iran’s Better, Stealthier Drones Are Remaking Global Warfare
(Bloomberg) -- In January, rebels fighting the Sudanese army shot down a drone near Khartoum. As jubilant gunmen posted video of the wreckage on social media, they offered a fresh data point on how Iranian technology is remaking the global weapons trade.
Investors Are Getting Rich Off a Trade That’s Sucking a Continent Dry Original
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On the world’s driest inhabited continent, water is making a few big investors very rich. On the day the trucks took away Meghan Campbell’s cows, she wept.
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Groundwater gold rush
Nut trees gained luster for investors about 20 years ago, spurred by the surging popularity of low-carb, high-protein diets such as South Beach and Atkins. From 2001 to 2006, annual US almond consumption grew more than 25%, to over a pound per person, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Most California nut growers are still local farmers. About 90% of the state’s 7,600 almond farms are family-owned, according to the Almond Board of California, the industry’s marketing arm.
Truckers Oppose Biden’s Pick for Labor Chief Over Gig-Worker Law
A group representing 150,000 truckers is calling on the US Senate to oppose President Joe Biden’s pick for Labor Secretary over a California labor rule it says has stifled drivers’ independence. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association asked a Senate panel to block the nomination of Deputy Labor Secretary Julie Su based on her backing of the 2019 California contract-worker law, known as AB5, in her previous role as the state’s labor secretary.
How Target Got Cozy With the Cops, Turning Black Neighbors Into Suspects
Aug 25 2021, 2:30 PMAug 26 2021, 3:02 AMAugust 25 2021, 2:30 PMAugust 26 2021, 3:02 AM (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Before police Sergeant Alice White assigns officers to work off duty at the East Lake Street Target store in South Minneapolis, they get what Target calls values training. Included are specific instructions for greeting customers with a smile and a friendly hello. It’s an unusual script for Minneapolis cops, who are known for adopting a more intimidating posture.
Anti-Asian Atmosphere Chills Chinese Scientists Working in U.S. (Correct)
Nianshuang Wang arrived in the U.S. from China about seven years ago to help explore an obscure niche in structural biology: manipulating coronavirus spike proteins to be more stable and thus better for use in vaccines. In early 2020 it was Wang who figured out how to make the spike protein on the novel coronavirus bind with human receptors, enabling Moderna Inc. to develop its Covid-19 vaccine in record time.
Palantir Knows Everything About You
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U.S. Meat Plants Are Deadly as Ever, With No Incentive to Change
Jun 18 2020, 1:30 PMJun 20 2020, 12:57 AMJune 18 2020, 1:30 PMJune 20 2020, 12:57 AM
Cold, Crowded, Deadly: Virus Stalks Workers at U.S. Meat Plants
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Nursing Homes Face Catastrophic Mix of Virus and Lax Oversight | Newsmax.com
In 2017, a flare-up of scabies in a Downey, California, nursing home persisted for more than six months and left at least seven patients covered in rashes from the skin-boring mites before staff members corralled the problem. A year later, norovirus swept through a Lakeview, Oregon, facility after staff members failed to contain the gastrointestinal illness that eventually sickened at least 16 of its residents.
Nursing Homes Face Catastrophic Mix of Virus and Lax Oversight
In 2017, a flare-up of scabies in a Downey, California, nursing home persisted for more than six months and left at least seven patients covered in rashes from the skin-boring mites before staff members corralled the problem. A year later, norovirus swept through a Lakeview, Oregon, facility after staff members failed to contain the gastrointestinal illness that eventually sickened at least 16 of its residents.
Nursing Homes Face Catastrophic Mix of Virus and Lax Oversight
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Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- It’s Husker Harvest Days, Nebraska’s biggest agricultural trade show, and Kevin Kenney is working the pavilions. The engineer, inventor, and inveterate manure-stirrer is...
The U.S. Government’s China Crackdown Comes to Harvard
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As China anxiety rises in US, fears of new red scare emerge
As China anxiety rises in US, fears of new red scare emerge By PETER WALDMAN | Bloomberg | Published: January 1, 2020 The setting was inauspicious: an auditorium at Stanford University, founded by a railroad tycoon who made his fortune off the backs of Chinese immigrants. The subject: a report describing China's efforts to manipulate American universities, corporations and media 150 years after Leland Stanford celebrated the completion of the first transcontinental line.
As China Anxiety Rises in U.S., Fears of New Red Scare Emerge
Photographer: Classen Rafael/Getty Images Photographer: Classen Rafael/Getty Images The setting was inauspicious: an auditorium at Stanford University, founded by a railroad tycoon who made his fortune off the backs of Chinese immigrants.
As China Anxiety Rises in U.S., Fears of New Red Scare Emerge
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U.S. Says Scientist Hid Job in China. Web Search Tells Otherwise
(Bloomberg) -- A University of Kansas researcher was indicted for allegedly hiding that he was working full-time for a Chinese university at the same time he was doing U.S-funded industrial research. But a web search shows that Franklin (Feng) Tao appeared to be moonlighting in plain sight: His dual Kansas and China ties are disclosed in at least two U.S.-funded research papers published last year, as well as in several Chinese-language websites easily translatable online.
U.S. Says Scientist Hid Job in China. Web Search Tells Otherwise
LISTEN TO ARTICLE 3:04 A University of Kansas researcher was indicted for allegedly hiding that he was working full-time for a Chinese university at the same time he was doing U.S-funded industrial research.
Hillblom Sued, Wooed and Died Suddenly; Paternity Claims Rise
SAIPAN, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands -- In May 1995, six days after Larry Lee Hillblom vanished into the Pacific Ocean near here in his World War II-vintage seaplane, his family and friends gathered for a memorial service in his hometown of Kingsburg, Calif. At age 52, Mr. Hillblom, co-founder and majority shareholder of DHL Corp. , the closely held courier company, was a health nut who didn't smoke, drank temperately and chided companions for eating cheeseburgers.
US targeting of Chinese scientists fuels brain drain
Mon, Jul 22, 2019 - Page 7ã A Chinese scientistâs start-up left the US after a federal investigation that included a failed sting, airport stops and an unfounded child porn search By Peter Waldman / Bloomberg Illustration: Yusha It was a big opportunity for a small research university. In 2013, Zhao Xin (è¶é«), a prize-winning doctor from the College of William & Mary, landed venture funding to commercialize some of the schoolâs patented nanotechnology.
US targeting of Chinese scientists fuels a brain drain
AFP A 2018 report by the U.S. National Intelligence Council called such efforts a thinly veiled way“to facilitate the legal and illicit transfer of U.S. technology, intellectual property and knowhow’’ to China. By Peter Waldman It was a big opportunity for a small research university. In 2013, Xin Zhao, a prize-winning Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary, landed venture funding to commercialize some of the school’s patented nanotechnology.
U.S. Targeting of Chinese Scientists Fuels a Brain Drain
It was a big opportunity for a small research university. In 2013, Xin Zhao, a prize-winning Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary, landed venture funding to commercialize some of the school’s patented nanotechnology.
U.S. Targeting of Chinese Scientists Fuels a Brain Drain
(Bloomberg) -- It was a big opportunity for a small research university. In 2013, Xin Zhao, a prize-winning Ph.D. from the College of William & Mary, landed venture funding to commercialize some of...
The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions
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The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions
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The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Cancer Researchers From Top Institutions
The dossier on cancer researcher Xifeng Wu was thick with intrigue, if hardly the stuff of a spy thriller.
The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Americans From Top Cancer Research
PrintEmail Story News Posted June 13, 2019, 4:08 PM By Peter Waldman The dossier on cancer researcher Xifeng Wu was thick with intrigue, if hardly the stuff of a spy thriller. It contained findings that sheâd improperly shared confidential information and accepted a half-dozen advisory roles at medical institutions in China. She might have weathered those allegations, but for a larger aspersion that was far more problematic: She was branded an oncological double agent.
Huawei stokes US fear with low-cost networking gear that works - Taipei Times
Tue, Jan 29, 2019 - Page 9 For a decade, US officials have claimed Huawei might be an arm of the Chinese state, stealing secrets through back-door bugs in its telecom equipment By Peter Waldman, Sheridan Prasso and Todd Shields / Bloomberg Illustration: Yusha In the sparsely settled forests of eastern Oregon, Huawei Technologies is hardly the big bad wolf of China that US officials have depicted. It is a lifeline to the 21st century.
Another Reason U.S. Fears Huawei: Its Gear Works and It's Cheap
Jan 24 2019, 10:00 AMJan 25 2019, 9:51 AMJanuary 24 2019, 10:00 AMJanuary 25 2019, 9:51 AM (Bloomberg) -- In the sparsely settled wildlands of eastern Oregon, Huawei Technologies Co. is hardly the big bad wolf of China that U.S. officials have depicted. It’s a lifeline to the 21st Century.
Besides security, another reason US fears Huawei: Its gear actually work
The administration of President Donald Trump is escalating a fight with a formidable adversary Peter Waldman Sheridan Prasso & Todd Shields | Bloomberg | San Francisco/Hong Kong/Washington Last Updated at January 25, 2019 02:28 IST https://mybs.in/2X33llv In the sparsely settled wildlands of eastern Oregon, Huawei Technologies is hardly the big bad wolf of China that US officials have depicted. It’s a lifeline to the 21st Century.
Huawei stokes US fear with low-cost networking gear that works - Tech News | The Star Online
In the sparsely settled wildlands of eastern Oregon, Huawei Technologies Co is hardly the big bad wolf of China that US officials have depicted. It’s a lifeline to the 21st Century. China’s largest tech company makes high-quality networking gear that it sells to rural telecommunications operators for 20% to 30% less than its competitors do, says Joseph Franell, chief executive officer and general manager of Eastern Oregon Telecom in Hermiston, a watermelon-growing hub of 18,000 people.
Huawei Stokes U.S. Fear With Low-Cost Networking Gear That Works
(Bloomberg) -- In the sparsely settled wildlands of eastern Oregon, Huawei Technologies Co. is hardly the big bad wolf of China that U.S. officials have depicted. It’s a lifeline to the 21st Century.
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