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Stop Wasting Water! New Study Reveals How to Get People to Conserve – And It’s Not Just About Money
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 30, 2025 – As droughts worsen and water shortages hit communities worldwide, a new study in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis has uncovered a smarter way to get people to save water – without breaking the bank.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Watch: Curing the Healthcare Supply Chain

Watch: Curing the Healthcare Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain, June 12, 2020

Christopher Tang, professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, describes what it will take for hospital and healthcare supply chains to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 was a “wakeup call” for supply chains, Tang says. A nation that ostensibly has an abundance of materials discovered that it could be subject to serious shortages of critical supplies needed to fight a pandemic, such as personal protective equipment and ventilators. “We need to rethink how we can do better,” he says.

Against the Unknown, Georgia Hospitals Gird for the Next Virus Wave

Against the Unknown, Georgia Hospitals Gird for the Next Virus Wave

AJC, June 12, 2020

When the hardest hit area of the state confronted the worst of the pandemic, its biggest hospital got into the daycare business. Doctors, nurses and other front line workers at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany were marooned at home because the shutdown of schools and day cares left no one to care for their children. The hospital responded by assigning employees to convert a health center into a kids camp. Administrative workers became camp counselors.

Lockdowns May Have Averted 60 Million Coronavirus Infections in U.S. Alone

Lockdowns May Have Averted 60 Million Coronavirus Infections in U.S. Alone

Scene, June 12, 2020

Lockdowns implemented in some countries to reduce transmission of the coronavirus were extremely effective at controlling its rapid spread and saved millions of lives, two new studies suggest. Shutdowns prevented or delayed an estimated 531 million coronavirus infections across six countries — China, South Korea, Iran, Italy, France and the United States — researchers from the University of California, Berkeley report June 8 in Nature.

Now You'll Have to Pass a Health Screening to Fly United Airlines

Now You'll Have to Pass a Health Screening to Fly United Airlines

Crain's Chicago Business, June 10, 2020

United Airlines says it’s requiring passengers to answer questions about their health before they fly.The Chicago-based carrier says it’s the first U.S. airline to require flyers to answer the questions, which are a common screening tool in hospitals and other settings. United already is requiring passengers to wear masks onboard aircraft to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

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