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737 Max saga won’t be Boeing’s end

Is Boeing Co capable of making commercial aircraft at all? It’s worth asking after an excoriating report by a US congressional committee on the circumstances leading up to the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX planes. The accidents were “the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing’s engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of ...

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Big firms are boosting child-care benefits

Whether your company is pushing employees to return to the office, a la JPMorgan, or letting them stay home, a la Google, Deutsche Bank and pretty much everyone else, the question remains: What the heck to do with the kids? The US remains a confusing patchwork of partially open, partially closed schools. Children learning via screen need supervision to help ...

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WeChat ban is a MAGA wall in cyberspace in US

Having failed to complete a huge wall along the US southern border, President Donald Trump’s administration now seems desperate to build one in cyberspace for similar spurious reasons. Whereas the bogeyman four years ago was a supposed influx of drugs and criminals from Mexico, the US announced that Tencent Holdings Ltd’s instant-messaging app WeChat will essentially be shut down in ...

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