Brian Gongol
97 new airports in 12 years
That's the plan for China, which intends to reach a total of 244 airports by 2020. It's a mind-bending $64 billion project. The US has more than 5,000 airports, but only about 10% are certified for air-transport operations.
A city on the sea
A pretty fanciful vision of what an agriculture city-on-the-sea would look like. It often takes fantastic visions in today's children's books to make tomorrow's big ideas come to fruition.
British town waiting for approval for chicken-carcass power plant
A story of fish and interstate conflict
Safari becomes a double-black-eye problem for Apple
First, they distributed it to iTunes users via a brute-force download pack, and now it's been identified as having two "highly critical" security vulnerabilities. Not good for Apple, which gets a lot of mileage out of telling everyone how safe they'd be from online crooks if only they'd switch to Macs. Related: Secunia is also calling out vulnerabilities in Firefox.
Chicago radio giant Wally Phillips is dead
At one time, he had 50% of the entire morning audience in Chicago. Truly remarkable.
