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Sports are a vital part of the fabric of America. Family time, social events and even holidays for some are centered around it. Over the past months, on top of the health and economic concerns wrought by COVID‐19, the lack of sports has added to our yearning for normality.

On Friday, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey released the findings of their June investigation into why America’s biggest meat companies warned of domestic shortages while at the same time exporting record quantities of meat to China during the height of pandemic-related supply chain backups in April.

Dr. Irv Lustig leads the development of custom optimization software at Priceton Consultants. He's come up with a way to help put fans back in the stands. His analytical approach allows venues the flexibility to choose how it can work best for them and their location, it looks at spacing of fans in the stands, sees the ticket holders, and more.

It’s nearly the end of 2020 in New Jersey, and the winter holidays are fast approaching. Shoppers are hurrying down the walkways of a mall. Strands of lights twinkle in shop windows stuffed full of toys. Christmas carols float through the air.

The shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the U.S.—which has exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis across the country—is likely to continue in a second wave of the pandemic. It has also exposed supply chain vulnerabilities in the process, namely, the reliance on foreign countries to produce the overwhelming majority of specialized PPE, such as N95 masks.