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In China, a bullet train crash in the city of Wenzhou in 2011 killed 40 people. The crash was blamed on poor design and mismanagement. In Taiwan, the bullet train system rang up $1.5 billion in losses over seven years, ...

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For the second time in three years, U.S. life expectancy has declined. The last time that happened, World War I was raging in Europe and a virulent flu pandemic was ravaging the home front. This time around, the diseases stalking ...

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Under federal law, health care providers that want to contest the government’s recoupment of Medicare overpayments, or a termination of their Medicare provider agreement, must exhaust their administrative remedies within the Medicare bureaucracy before going to court. Unfortunately, due to ...

Last month, the Trump administration sent 5,000 troops to our southern border to prevent anyone from a migrant caravan from entering the United States. The caravan is composed of many refugees – including women and children.  Earlier this week, there were reports that ...

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Around November — who am I kidding, by Halloween — the Christmas frenzy begins! Lights, decorations, Santas and music abound. Excitement begins to build for the magnificent finale of Christmas morning and the magical arrival of Santa Claus down the ...

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Resuming a debate that has arisen occasionally in the past, some U.S. colleges have announced that they will no longer require applicants to provide standardized test scores, but instead will look to high school grade-point averages and subjective information. The ...

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In 1953, Charles Wilson, then the president of General Motors, famously told a congressional committee that “what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.” A version of that soft industrial nationalism has been Donald ...

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The results are in and it’s a split decision! After a process that took 14 months, Amazon has settled on the locations of its new headquarters in Greater Washington and New York City. Baltimore was one of 238 communities that ...

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More than 10 years have passed since Randall Kiser and his colleagues documented how often and at what cost attorneys obtain a result worse than what could have been achieved by accepting their opponents’ pre-trial settlement proposal. Generally speaking, Kiser ...

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It has now been more than two weeks since the midterm election, and in some states ballots are still being counted. Counting votes has become more complicated and time-consuming, in part because, over the past decade, fewer people show up ...

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