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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. 

NORTH CAROLINA – Roughly four months into the worst public health crisis of our lifetime, experts say we're still in the beginning. "I think we're maybe coming to the end of chapter one," says Dr. Paul Delamater, assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill. The health geographer launched N.C. COVID-19 earlier this month. It's a website with models focused solely on North Carolina. "You don't want to say things look good because people are still transmitting coronavirus. People are still being hospitalized. People are still dying, but relative to other state's, we've done a pretty good job," Delamater says.

Good morning. It has been nearly a year since the Business Roundtable released its statement of corporate purpose, putting the interests of employees, customers, communities and the environment on equal footing with shareholders.The change found widespread acceptance among leaders of Fortune 500 companies, and even among investors. Most of the criticism came not from people who disagree with the goals, but rather those who wonder how the words will be translated into action, and what metrics will be used to measure progress and hold companies accountable.