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What the exploding pager attack means for air travel - WSJ
 In other cases, attempted terrorist attacks have prompted short-term increases to security at airports. After a terrorist attempted to detonate a bomb concealed in his underwear on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2009, more extensive security procedures including full-body pat-downs were implemented for a period for travelers who had recently been to or held passports from certain countries.
“TSA has the flexibility to modify security procedures, protocols and technologies at any time to meet evolving threats," said Keith Jeffries, vice president of the Security Screening Group at K2 Consulting, a Maryland-based consulting firm focused on security in air travel and other industries.
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WorkThe Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon - The New Yorker A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the solar system—not on Earth but on the far side of the moon. Houston is nicknamed Space City; on the ride from the airport, I passed the ballpark where the Astros play, and, outside a McDonald’s on East NASA Parkway, I saw a giant sculpture of an astronaut holding French fries. I found Lunar Resources in a boxy building where the company leases square footage from the aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin. WorkHow AI can help spot wildfires - MIT Technology Review In February 2024, a broken utility pole brought down power lines near the small town of Stinnett, Texas. In the following weeks, the fire reportedly sparked by that equipment grew to burn over 1 million acres, the biggest wildfire in the state’s history.
WorkWorkReparenting Can Help You Heal Childhood TraumaHere's How For some people, these difficult situations have caused our inner child to carry unhealed wounds that stick around into adulthood. This can go relatively unnoticed until we have kids, as becoming a parent tends to remind us of our childhood and the burdens that might've come along with it.
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WorkThe Priest Who Helps Women in the Mob Escape - The New Yorker Luigi Ciotti was pacing by the open gates of a low concrete building in Turin. He had been waiting for an hour. In front of him was a wide street smelling of diesel and flanked by the bollards that keep Italians from parking where they shouldnt. With his shrewd eyes, flowing white hair, untucked black shirt, and black pants, Ciotti could have been a theatre director waiting for his lead to show up. Rather, he was a priest. He chatted with three bodyguards, who stood just behind him, their eyes fixed on the road. Finally, a Fiat 500 approached. As soon as the car cleared the gates, the security detail slammed them shut. In the back of the vehicle was a young woman in a pink Converse sweatshirt and leopard-print leggings. On her lap sat a small boy with a pacifier. A teen-age girl was next to them. Work
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Work4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process - Harvard Business Review Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge. WorkTrump Media Shares Near All-Time Low - Inc.com Trump Media shares tumble to new low after insider selling curbs expireShares of former U.S. President Donald Trump's media company bounced back slightly in early Tuesday trading after hitting a new low on Monday, extending recent losses after restrictions on insider selling expired.
WorkThe fascinating truth about why common sense isn't really that common - New Scientist In the 18th century, philosopher James Beattie compiled a list of 17 common-sense beliefs. A few are incontrovertible: I exist; A whole is greater than a part; Virtue and vice are different. But others seem unnecessarily moralising: Ingratitude ought to be blamed and punished; I have a soul distinct from my body; There is a God. Then, there are the scientifically contestable: The senses can be believed; I am the same being that I was yesterday or even 20 years ago; Truth exists. Overall, his list seems quaint and outdated. Worse still, it gives no clear idea of what common sense is. Surely, we can do better. WorkThe Science Behind Nootropics Do They Actually Work? - Discover Magazine Sometime in 2024, I started getting ads in my Instagram feed from a supplement company called Thesis. The ads generally featured good-looking, fashionable people telling neat, 30-second stories about how the supplements had solved their chronic procrastination, indecision, or distractibility. Many of the evangelists were identified as high-achievers in their respective fields a Ph.D. neuroscientist, a CEO, or a surgeon.
WorkWork WorkThe Real Science Behind the Animated Emotions of Inside Out 2Inside Out fans last saw 11-year-old Rileyand Joy, Fear, Sadness, Anger, and Disgust, a.k.a. the five core emotions in the headquarters of her brainfinally accept her feelings in the conclusion to Pixars beloved, Oscar-winning 2015 film. In return, she received a brand new expanded console control board. On it flashed a red emergency light labeled Puberty. Whats Poo-berty? asks Disgust. Its probably not important, says Joy. WorkWhat HBOs Sleeper Hit Does Better Than Anything Else on TV Right NowThe biggest stories in the financial markets in the 2020s have resolved around silliness. The bizarre nature of modern markets has taken different forms, but you’ve never needed a finance degree to understand that these stories have been a bit unserious. An oddball crypto CEO depressed markets for months when he took money from depositors at his crypto exchange, gave it to his hedge fund, and invested it in made-up coins whose value was tied to confidence in his own business. A Reddit and YouTube poster proved he can shift the value of a public company by billions of dollars by posting a meme with no words in it. Retail investors more or less directly donated millions of dollars to the people to whom Bed Bath & Beyond owed money, propping up the company’s stock price as it slipped into bankruptcy. The money is real but the actions are all ridiculous, and the people committing them are either amateurs or fraudulent, boy-wonderish CEOs with funny haircuts. WorkWorkHacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuityWhen security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow Law Roach made teenage Zendaya a red carpet star - WSJ Chastity, a client of the store who would later become my mentor, called about a favor for her friend’s daughter. This 14-year-old girl was a young actress, known for her roles on the Disney Channel. My client told me that this actress was invited to Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never premiere and she didn’t have anything to wear. Next thing I knew, I had disappeared into the Kitson boutique at Santa Monica Place with a teenage Zendaya. WorkWorkWorkWorkScientist Nuke an Asteroid in a Lab Mock-Up - Scientific American The findings, published on September 23 in Nature Physics, showed some really amazing direct experimental evidence for how effective this technique can be, says Dawn Graninger, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Its very impressive work. WorkA threatened ports strike is already having an impact in America - The Economist FED UP WITH waiting ages to load and unload his trailer, Malcolm McLean, a former lorry driver, developed containers, which could be easily lifted on and off lorries and ships. They changed the freight industry.The first ship carrying containers left the Port of Newark, which is part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANY/NJ), in 1956. WorkWorkTrump Is Briefed on Iranian Assassination ThreatsRussia and China have also engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at influencing American elections. American spy agencies have assessed that Russia favors Mr. Trump, seeing him as skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine, and U.S. officials announced a broad effort to push back on Russian influence campaigns this month. WorkBeijing threatens to block Calvin Klein owners access to China - WSJ Beijing said it is investigating PVH, the owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, for alleged discrimination against products from the Xinjiang region—setting up a potential block on the American apparel firm’s sales in China just as the U.S. introduces measures to limit Chinese access to its own market. WorkWorkOpinion | This Grain Should Be the Next QuinoaMore and more of us in the food industry are beginning to see the possibilities. My friend Garrett Oliver, the brew master at Brooklyn Brewery, partnered with the food company Yolélé to brew beer using fonio. Yolélé is working directly with smallholder fonio farmers in the Sahel region, just south of the Sahara, to connect them with local and global markets. It is investing in processing facilities to create more job opportunities, and bringing an African grain to a new audience in the United States. WorkWorkHow the next president should reform MedicarePaul Ginsburg is a senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and is a former vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Steve Lieberman is a nonresident senior scholar at the Schaeffer Center, a former assistant director at both the Congressional Budget Office and the White House Office of Management and Budget, and a former senior adviser to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. WorkMissouri Man Executed After Long Fight for Exoneration“Marcellus Williams should be alive today,” the local prosecutor, Wesley Bell, said in a statement. “There were multiple points in the timeline when decisions could have been made that would have spared him the death penalty.” WorkChemical Leak From Rail Yard Near Cincinnati Prompts EvacuationsThe leak unleashed an odor that was detectable across the region. Several miles away, across the border in Bright, Ind., Eileen Kailholz said she had noticed a “weird” smell when she went outside to tend to her bird feeders, unlike anything she had ever smelled before. WorkHouse to Vote on Short-Term Spending Bill to Avert a ShutdownMr. Johnson had previously pushed for a longer-term spending deal that also included legislation requiring that those registering to vote show proof of citizenship. Democrats rejected those demands, and some conservatives in the House joined with them last week to sink their own speaker’s proposal. WorkLeadership, but No Clear Leader, Failed at Tragic Trump RallySenator Gary Peters, Democrat of Michigan and the committee’s chairman, stressed the panel would continue digging into the 2,800 pages of documents obtained from law enforcement and pushing for more interviews before issuing a final report. The interim report details multiple information requests that have yet to be answered. WorkWorkWorkTrump Golf Course Suspect Is Charged With Attempted AssassinationJust hours before that, federal prosecutors in North Carolina unsealed charges against Mr. Routh’s son, Oran A. Routh, accusing him of buying and possessing child pornography. An F.B.I. search of his apartment for evidence in his father’s case uncovered “hundreds” of sexual images on his phone involving children as young as 6, according to a court filing. 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