Category: Top Stories
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The Boeing 737 Max: How Will Boeing Regain Trust?
By Vikram Bala ‘20, News Editor On March 10th, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines (ICAO: ETH) flight 302 crashed near the town of Bishoftu just 6 minutes after takeoff. In total, 157 people were killed in the crash of the Boeing 737 Max 8 variant. Although isolated incidents do occur from time to time, air disasters are…
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Amazon in the News Today
By Kayla Cohen ‘21, Staff Writer Amazon, the online superstore used daily by people of all ages, is now the most valuable public company in the world, even ahead of Apple. But the company is in the headlines for problems involving employees, companies on the site, and its founder, Jeff Bezos. Here is everything you…
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CES 2019: Four Things You May Have in the Future
By Vikram Bala ‘20, News Editor We often see growth in technology as the production of new iPhones, or maybe even laptops with higher thread count (faster) CPU’s. However, in order to truly see the advances and new marvels of the technological world there is only one solution. CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics…
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Implications and Effects of the Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History
By Ben Chaddha ‘21, Staff Writer At 35 days in length, the third government shutdown under the Trump Administration was the longest in American history. The shutdown began at midnight on December 22, 2018 when a little less than a quarter of government funding ran out, and ended on the 25th of January, 2019. Since…
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News from Space!
By Simon Gorbaty ‘19, News Editor Ultima Thule Fly-By 2019 began with one of the most daring scientific feats attempted by astrophysicists and engineers. On January 1st, the New Horizons Space Probe, best known for visiting Pluto in the summer of 2015, captured images of the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule. The observed bowling-pin like…
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Marijuana Initiatives Sweep the Nation
By Max Gorbaty ‘22, Staff Writer Despite the federal government’s prohibition of cannabis, initiatives for the drug’s legalization have swept over the United States in recent months. Prior to recent action, recreational marijuana was legal in nine states in the United States, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington state along with…
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It’s Only Going to Get Worse
By Vikram Bala ‘20, News Editor Reduce, reuse, recycle. You probably remember repeating these in elementary school, maybe having an assembly on the topic, or even spending a few classes on the subject of climate change. Warnings of the imminent destruction to Earth may have scared you, but after a few days there would be…
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Who Copied Whom? Trump and Khan: Modern Leaders
By Vikram Bala ‘20, News Editor Cricket players are akin not only to celebrities in South Asia, but are often elevated to the level of worship only given to God. Imran Khan exemplifies such worship. Elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in August of this past summer, he has generated much controversy and debate over his…
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Ten News Stories From Summer 2018 You Might Have Missed
By Simon Gorbaty ’19, News Editor Separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, updates on the Trump-Russia investigation, a trade war with China, a World Cup victory for France, and the passing of icons “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin and Senator John McCain have dominated the headlines this summer. But so much more has occurred…
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News Top 10 #3
Ferguson: A grand jury in Ferguson, MO decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for any crimes related to the death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. The jury was made up of 9 white and 3 black jurors, 7 men and 5 women. A decision would have needed to be reached by…