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How can Obama have the biggest impact when he speaks to Congress about job creation Thursday evening? It’s hard to overestimate the delicacy of the challenge President Obama faces in his speech Thursday night to a joint session of Congress
Read More »Elkington & McCarron win revival of tournament
As Arnold Palmer slowly walked up the 18th fairway Tuesday at Portland Golf Club, an Umpqua Bank Challenge official stood on the green and told fans this might the last Northwest tournament for the 81-year-old golf legend.
Read More »This $1 Plastic Chip Can Diagnose HIV In 15 Minutes
In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don't bother getting their results. A new device could make testing in remote villages a possibility, and that could lead to drastically improved treatment. If you were concerned you had HIV (and lived in America), it would be easy enough to get some blood drawn at a clinic near your house, and wait a few days (or even hours) for the results.
Read More »How NextDrop Is Using Cell Phones, Crowdsourcing To Get Water To The Thirsty
In cities where the water coming from pipes is anything but reliable, a new service alerts people so they don't have to sit at home all day waiting for the tap to turn on. In many cities in developing countries, residents have piped water supplies. But there's a catch: the water is only available through the pipes for a few hours at a time, and people have no way of knowing when that will be
Read More »Plasma: The trouble with bubbles
Controlling a boiling plasma at several million degrees Celsius that's the challenge of nuclear fusion, our great energy hope for the future. EPFL's Plasma Physics Research Center (CRPP) has just published two scientific articles that advance the state of knowledge in the domain.
Read More »Without Woods, Begay charity event postponed
The fourth annual Notah Begay Challenge has been postponed.
Read More »Inside GM’s Scouting Grounds: The EcoCAR Challenge
The government-sponsored competition to build the best ultra-fuel-efficient vehicles yields both automotive innovation and the next generation of car designers.
Read More »Sensors pave the way to using energy from the stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The international ITER project is setting out to store the energy of stars in a reactor. To meet this challenge, scientists must be able to measure the properties of matter in fusion
Read More »Alec Ross On The State Department’s Global Tech Efforts
Photograph by Douglas Sonders Alec Ross Senior Adviser for Innovation, Office of the Secretary of State Washington, D.C. Ross, 39, heads the State Department’s initiative to work with technologists in the private sector. "WE HAVE TO LEVERAGE technology in service of our diplomatic and development goals.
Read More »Prioritize Goals to Profitably Grow Your Business
Six months ago when I started working at Parallels as CEO I knew that I would not be able to accomplish everything I wanted overnight. So I asked myself, "What are the key challenges I want to tackle first?" I worked with my leadership team to define our business priorities and establish clear, measurable goals so we could achieve them to profitably grow our business. I created scorecards for our company with our executives and their teams so everyone understands our goals, what success looks like and how each person is accountable to helping the company achieve its goals.
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