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A month earlier, however, a group of senior U.S. military officers rendered a much harsher judgment in private about the legacy of the 12-year U.S.-led intervention. The officers concluded in a report for the Joint Chiefs of Staff that Afghanistan’s ability to serve its citizens’ needs remains directly threatened by a deeply entrenched culture of corruption that not only defied the West’s intervention but grew substantially worse because of it.
How The US Failed In Afghanistan - Business Insider
But the developments at Penn point, tantalizingly, to something more, something that would rank among the great milestones in the history of mankind: a true cure. Of 25 children and 5 adults with Emily’s disease, ALL, 27 had a complete remission, in which cancer becomes undetectable. “ It’s a stunning breakthrough,” says Sally Church, of drug development advisor Icarus Consultants. Says Crystal Mackall, who is developing similar treatments at the National Cancer Institute: “It really is a revolution. This is going to open the door for all sorts of cell-based and gene therapy for all kinds of disease because it’s going to demonstrate that it’s economically viable.”
Is This How We'll Cure Cancer? - Forbes
High-income economies have had ultra-cheap money for more than five years. Japan has lived with it for almost 20. This has been policy makers’ principal response to the crises they have confronted. Inevitably, a policy of cheap money is controversial. Nonetheless, as Japan’s experience shows, the predicament may last a long time.
Wipe out rentiers with cheap money - FT.com
Limitless renewable energy from nuclear fusion has been "30 years away" for several decades, but now experts believe they're finally closing in on a self-sustaining reaction
Back to the future: are we about to crack nuclear fusion? | The big energy debate | theguardian.com
Investing $1.3 billion in infrastructure next year would add at least 29,000 jobs and $2 billion to economic growth while reducing the deficit by $200 million, according to a new report from Standard & Poors.
It is worth remembering at the heart of this struggle, so often portrayed as some kind of great game played by global powers, is the desire of Ukraine's people to share the purest European dream of freedom and prosperity. After decades of Soviet rule, followed by sordid cronyism and corruption that followed its collapse and led to such stagnation, these people want a better life.
The EU's response to Ukraine has been a betrayal | Ian Birrell | Comment is free | The Guardian
But these extraordinary riches are being plundered by illegal fishing, with many sharks, rays, turtles and mantas among the devastating collateral damage of longline tuna fishing. It is part of a global illegal fishing crisis worth $10-23bn a year that results in 100m sharks killed every year.
The global automotive industry is set for an explosive expansion over the next seven years, research from IHS Automotive, part of IHS Global Insight, showed, with China accounting for half of the growth.
Global car output to break 100 million units by 2021
After a blow-out 2013, Japan's stock market seems to have lost its luster, but according to global research house Capital Economics the Nikkei is set for a dramatic turnaround.
Is a massive rebound coming for the Nikkei?
Apple trades at 13.5 times this year's estimated earnings while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index trades at 23.9 times its earnings. The company is even cheap relative to the benchmark S&P 500 index, which trades at 16.7 times earnings. (Read: Cramer: Heed Apple, Icahn and Twitter) Yet Sanchez says that the long-term fundamentals for Apple aren't good. Her worry is the company's iPhone business, which accounted for 53 percent of its revenue in 2013. "It's about 318 million total iPhone users in the world," Sanchez said. "Replacement demand alone is not going to be able to keep that growth going. So, the iPhone 6 will have to take increasing market share in order to keep the story for Apple positive. And, that's a challenge."
This chart shows why Apple could go a lot higher | Talking Numbers - Yahoo Finance
Tarshema Brice hardly ranks among the world’s elite counterfeiters. But with the help of modern consumer technology, she developed an exacting system for crafting fake U.S. greenbacks.
Woman With Printer Shows the Digital Ease of Bogus Cash - Bloomberg
NASA scientists have released a stunning recreation of the evolution of the universe from the formation of the first atoms, to the birth of stars and galaxies. It is all based on the latest mathematical model of how it all happened.
BBC News - Researchers create simulation of the Universe's evolution
Forget the delivery drones and TV deals. Jeff Bezos’ stealthy foray into the unsexy world of B2B distribution is likely his most disruptive move yet — and it has an $8 trillion swath of the economy running scared.
Amazon's Wholesale Slaughter: Jeff Bezos' $8 Trillion B2B Bet - Forbes