Remember the Magic School Bus, the animated series in which a somewhat demented school teacher named Ms. Frizzle (catchphrase: “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!”) takes her class on mind-bending adventures? In one episode, she reduces the bus to microscopic size and takes her charges into the bloodstream of an ill classmate. You see the kids swimming around in tiny ...

It’s not just air tickets that are being cancelled as the coronavirus causes global travel to seize up. Purchases of aircraft are also being pulled. Aircraft lessors Avolon Holdings Ltd, China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co, and General Electric Co’s GECAS have rescinded orders for 173 Boeing Co 737 MAX aircraft over the past month, worth $17.8 billion at list ...

My son Nick lives in New Zealand, which has done a remarkable job fighting the coronavirus. As of April 24, the nation of 4.8 million people had 1,456 confirmed cases and only 17 deaths. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government is now talking about not just containing the virus but eliminating it. It helps that New Zealand is an island nation ...