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Masks at Thanksgiving? Here are better ideas!

Thanksgiving 2021 should be the reward for abstaining from 2020 celebrations until Covid-19 vaccines rolled out. Why not? The virus is still very much around, but times really have changed. Remember those 11th-hour pleas from the US Centers for Disease Control to cancel last year’s gatherings as a big fall surge was building? They were reasonable, then: Big holiday celebrations ...

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Supply-chain crisis is already easing in US

The supply-chain crunch appears to have already peaked in the US. Over the past two years, just about anything that could go wrong with global supply chains has gone wrong, from volatile swings in demand, a wave of extreme weather events and even a container ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal. But evidence keeps piling up to suggest that ...

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Boeing buyers’ ire builds as 787 issues pass 13-month mark

Bloomberg Frustration is mounting for customers waiting to take new Boeing Co 787 Dreamliners — planes caught in a regulatory and production quagmire that has halted all but a few deliveries since October 2020. The popular wide-body jets will be needed to carry travellers across oceans as borders sealed shut by the Covid-19 pandemic start to reopen. But airlines and ...

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