Derailing the Boondoggle
A Danish professor promotes a cure for billion-dollar cost overruns in government megaprojects: Use past boondoggles as a baseline.
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Posted 2008-08-04 16:00:00
An engineering professor has submitted a patent application for a circular, spinning aircraft design ... or flying saucer
Posted 2008-08-14 14:00:00
Oregon researchers develop counseling approaches that reduce anorexia, bulimia and obesity among young women — apparently for years.
Posted 2008-08-14 14:00:00
Michael Reynolds has been building his variety of low-consumption, off-the-grid housing for decades. Now, though, the Earthship is taking off.
Posted 2008-08-15 14:00:00
Here's how government can help curb America's seemingly endless appetite for "more."
Posted 2008-08-18 14:00:00
A Danish professor promotes a cure for billion-dollar cost overruns in government megaprojects: Use past boondoggles as a baseline.
Posted 2008-08-18 14:00:00
As seen in our main story on a cure for billion-dollar cost overruns, here's a look at some infamous public works projects and what went wrong.
Posted 2008-08-19 14:00:00
Only a fool would support expanded domestic exploration — offshore or elsewhere — under the Bush administration's dysfunctional energy policies. Here's how those policies need to change for America to responsibly find the energy it needs.
Posted 2008-08-21 14:00:00
Mike Wallace helps climate-savvy investors determine whether companies will prosper or shrivel as carbon dioxide regulation becomes reality.
Posted 2008-08-26 16:00:00
Studies show the over-50 demographic needs AIDS education.
Posted 2008-08-26 16:00:00
Hey, man, this baby boomer retirement thing ain't that big a deal. OK?
Posted 2008-08-26 16:00:00
An essay collection makes the case that, in the digital age, community is more a matter of ideas than of geography. Even if the idea is a Nigerian e-mail scam.
Posted 2008-08-26 16:00:00
A film on a health care system that impoverishes and kills people, just because they lose their jobs.
Posted 2008-08-26 16:10:00
Looking at the complex U.S.-Saudi relationship in a time of terrorism, rising oil prices and climate change.
Posted 2008-08-27 14:00:00
The government provides billions of dollars in child care subsidies to help move welfare recipients into the work force. Here's the catch: To get the subsidies, people transitioning off welfare need to have a job already.
Posted 2008-08-31 14:00:00
A call on the professorial classes to help check abuses of governmental power. And to start confronting the Alberto Gonzaleses of the world — before they wreak havoc.
Posted 2008-08-31 14:00:00
Can a new administration help the world forget the sins of its predecessor? Should it?
Posted 2008-08-31 14:00:00
For your Labor Day weekend reading pleasure, we have crafted summaries of recent research papers focusing on unions, strikes and the attitudes of workers. Collectively a bargain, they come to you fresh off the Miller-McCune factory floor.
Posted 2008-08-31 14:00:00
Believing you're fat may be more emotionally damaging than actually being obese.
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