How to end child poverty in America
California’s Silicon Valley is one of the most prosperous places in the United Stateshome to tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Apple. Yet even this region isn’t immune from…
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How to end child poverty in America
California’s Silicon Valley is one of the most prosperous places in the United Stateshome to tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Apple. Yet even this region isn’t immune from…
Afghanistan Avalanche Claims Dozens Of Lives, Homes
An Afghan official says dozens of people are feared dead in an avalanche that buried some 60 homes in the northeastern Panjshir Valley. – — Khaama Press (KP) (@khaama) February…
Two Missing Ducks, a Video and a Felony Charge in an Episode at a Foie Gras Farm
FERNDALE, N.Y. — The case of the People of the State of New York against Amber Canavan touches on a variety of issues: animal rights, food culture and tradition, and…
Obama Heads to Security Talks Amid Tensions
PALO ALTO, Calif. — President Obama will meet here on Friday with the nation’s top technologists on a host of cybersecurity issues and the threats posed by increasingly sophisticated hackers….
What Silicon Valley Thinks Of Women
On a spring afternoon last year at an outdoor café in San Francisco, two denizens of the tech community sketched out their strategy for a startup. Like most 28-year-olds in…
Amazon and Its Friends
Forget about same-day delivery of diapers or reconnecting with your high school girlfriend or publishing those novels without the aid of an editor or bookstore. The greatest achievement of Silicon…
When Silicon Valley takes LSD
Tim Ferriss, a Silicon Valley investor and author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,” says he knows many successful entrepreneurs who dabble in psychedelics. “The billionaires I know, almost without exception, use…
Century Later, the ‘Chinatown’ Water Feud Ebbs
Pooled water and a salt grass field on part of Owens Lake, in Eastern California near the Sierra Nevada. The lake was drained decades ago, its source water diverted for…
Can canned goods stop school shooters?
When it’s a weapon of self-defense for students to throw at an armed intruder who has just entered their school. That’s one scenario Valley, Alabama, officials are considering as part…