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Court Backlogs Are Clogging the System – New Research Finds a Surprising Fix
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 21, 2025 – Courts around the world are struggling to keep up with growing caseloads, leaving individuals and businesses waiting months – sometimes years – for resolution. But a new study in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management has uncovered a surprisingly simple way to speed up the system that doesn’t require hiring more judges.

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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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Baltimore bridge disaster tests supply chains’ resilience but pandemic lessons ease impact

Baltimore bridge disaster tests supply chains’ resilience but pandemic lessons ease impact

South China Morning Post, April 25, 2024

With no work emails or phone calls it’s mostly been “scary quiet” for Theresa Abel since March 26, when a huge container vessel crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing down the span, killing six workers and clogging the main shipping channel that connected the city’s port with the rest of the world.

Did Israel's thermal bombs vaporize Gazan bodies and turn them into ash?

Did Israel's thermal bombs vaporize Gazan bodies and turn them into ash?

Al Jazeera, April 24, 2024

Months ago, a user of the Quora website - a platform for asking questions and communicating with people - asked a question about the reasons for not using “thermal bombs” - also known as “vacuum bombs” - in the battle of the tunnels in the Gaza Strip.

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