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Dying Organs Restored to Life in Novel Experiments
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/health/mitochondria-transplant-heart-attack.html An unusual transplant may revive tissues thought to be hopelessly damaged, including the heart and brain. When Georgia Bowen was born by emergency cesarean on May 18, she took a breath, threw her arms in the air, cried twice, and went into cardiac arrest. The baby had had a heart attack, most likely while she was still in the womb. Her heart was profoundly damaged; a large portion of the muscle was dead, or nearly so, leading to the cardiac arrest. Doctors kept her alive with a cumberso...
Pentagon Puts Cyberwarriors on the Offensive, Increasing the Risk of Conflict
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/cyber-command-trump.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well WASHINGTON DC — June 19, 2018 The Pentagon has quietly empowered the United States Cyber Command to take a far more aggressive approach to defending the nation against cyberattacks, a shift in strategy that could increase the risk of conflict with the foreign states that sponsor malicious hacking groups. Until now, the Cyber Command has assumed a largely defensive posture,...
Strong Hiring in May Pushes Unemployment Rate to 18-Year Low
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https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/01/us/politics/ap-us-economy-jobs-report.html WASHINGTON — June 1, 2018 U.S. employers extended a streak of solid hiring in May, adding 223,000 jobs and helping lower the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent from 3.9 percent in April. Average hourly pay rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier, a slightly faster annual rate than in April, the Labor Department reported Friday. But pay growth remains below levels that are typical when the unemployment rate is this low. Still, the report shows that the nearly 9-year old e...
Never Mind the News Media: Politicians Test Direct-to-Voter Messaging
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/bernie-sanders-town-hall.html WASHINGTON — May 31, 2018 Senator Bernie Sanders seemed nervous. In just two hours, he would conduct a live-streamed town hall event on the Iran nuclear deal, and he still hadn’t nailed his opening. “Did you mention to somebody doing a history of U.S.-Iranian relations?” he asked aides who had gathered in his Senate office to help him prepare. “What do you think about starting with that?” Then he wanted to say something about Saudi Arabia. Then Israel. In another room, staff members rushed to...
How Trump’s Election Shook Obama: ‘What if We Were Wrong?’
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WASHINGTON — MAY 30, 2018 Riding in a motorcade in Lima, Peru, shortly after the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was struggling to understand Donald J. Trump’s victory. “What if we were wrong?” he asked aides riding with him in the armored presidential limousine. He had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind. “Maybe we pushed too far,” Mr. Obama said. “Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.” His aides reassured him tha...