There are times when perfection in the business world is not good enough. Here is a case. In the dicey world of rocket launches, United Launch Alliance has had 106 perfect missions in a row. But, that is not enough. Newer, cheaper rockets are on the scene and they are starting to make headway against […]
Posted on March 30th, 2016 by admin
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One would not expect an aging revolutionary to suddenly change his beliefs, especially when he thinks of enemies. So that is why Fidel Castro’s reaction to President Obama’s visit to Cuba is as expected — negative. Castro has spent most of his life bashing America, especially after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He is a […]
Posted on March 29th, 2016 by admin
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An Israeli soldier shot a Palestinian who was lying on the ground incapacitated. The Israeli government is investigating the incident but many Israelis feel he was justified. Whether or not the soldier had the right to do what he did, it is suspect PR and a cause for inflaming already ferocious feelings between the two countries. […]
Posted on March 28th, 2016 by admin
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The day after the Brussels bombing, the pope washed the feet of Christian, Hindu and Muslim refugees and called them brothers. The symbolic act is part of a Roman Catholic religious ceremony re-enacting the last Passover supper Jesus celebrated with his disciples. The pope’s choice of people from multiple religions was unusual and was a […]
Posted on March 25th, 2016 by admin
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Cable companies are fighting a loss of subscribers who are cutting the cord and relying on the internet for programming. For the most part, cable has only itself to blame. Their service was bad and charges for bundled channels, most of which few watched, are high. One wonders why cable kings let things fester as […]
Posted on March 16th, 2016 by admin
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A video making the rounds shows a stomach-churning scene of an employee peeing onto a food assembly line. Kellogg is investigating the incident but the damage is done. An employee has sabotaged the company and added a yuck factor to its food products. There is little any company can do to avert worker sabotage. It […]
Posted on March 15th, 2016 by admin
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Here is a case in which a hospital spoke too soon about its pioneering surgery. The Cleveland Clinic knows an uterine transplant is risky and should not have bruited in the press that it was trying to do the first in the US. Now the hospital has to deal with the failure of the first […]
Posted on March 11th, 2016 by admin
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Amazon couldn’t buy publicity as good as this. The column is a mash note to Amazon’s Echo device that understands human speech and can perform a myriad of functions at one’s command. The positive article comes from experience with using Echo and Alexa, its voice. The author found that it became more useful as days […]
Posted on March 10th, 2016 by admin
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A Google computer has defeated one of the top Go players in the world in the first game of five to be played for a million dollar purse. Go is harder to learn than chess with a nearly infinite number of moves possible on a 19 x 19 square board. Google’s challenge was a PR […]
Posted on March 9th, 2016 by admin
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North Korea knows how to bluff the rest of the world. Invoking the nuclear option, the country has placed South Korea and other nations on edge. It is known that the North has a plenitude of missiles aimed at Seoul and the leadership of the North is enough off kilter that one has to worry […]
Posted on March 8th, 2016 by admin
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