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1969 After an EC-121 U.S. intelligence plane was shot down in the Sea of Japan by North Korea, Newsweek wrote that the “vast search at sea,” which even included aid from Russian ships, was a “rare exercise of international goodwill.” None of the 31 Americans aboard the plane survived. The incident marked President Nixon’s first major foreign crisis. Last month, North Korea tested both short range and ballistic missiles in the first launches since President Biden stepped into office. Biden responded to the show of force by stating the North Korea is a top foreign policy issue. 1981 There’s “a crisis of confidence in the public schools,” wrote Newsweek. “Growing numbers of parents are simply yanking kids out and paying to send them to private schools.” Today, roughly 10 percent…

Why another Madoff book? My interest was to present the first overall architecture of the scheme including the systemic failure that made it possible. I think people will be surprised by how much they don’t know about the story. I want it to stand as the definitive account. Hadn’t the Madoffs spoken to many other journalists before you? Compared to other journalists, I had the most extensive relationship with Bernie, by his admission. Ruth did speak briefly on 60 Minutes and with Laurie Sandell (author of 2011’s Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family) previously, but she told me she didn’t like doing it; that she was kind of forced into it by Andrew. She would not speak to anybody else besides me, something she has honored. You caught…

@kerenzulli PROCRASTINATORS, TAKE NOTE. WITH JUST OVER a month left before the recently-extended May 17 tax-filing deadline, you still have time to boost your refund by hundreds of dollars or more—or, if you’re among the unlucky few who owe money to Uncle Sam, cut your tax bill substantially. You just have to know the right moves. So far this year, about three out of four of the nearly 68 million households that filed a return have gotten a refund, averaging nearly $3,000. But chances are, you can do even better: While most tax-saving strategies ended when the calendar year did on December 31, not all did. “Just because 2020 is over doesn’t mean you’re out of luck,” says Birmingham, Michigan, financial planner Nicole Gopoian Wirick. “There are still tax planning…

@scottbmcdonald IN 1971, A THEN 15-YEAR-OLD Judy Bochenski and the rest of the United States table tennis team went to Japan for the world championships. Near the end of the tournament, they received an invitation to visit China for an eight-day tour of the country and some exhibition matches. When the team crossed over from Hong Kong to the mainland on April 10, they became the first outsiders to visit Communist China since 1949. Now on the 50th anniversary of the event that kicked off “ping pong diplomacy” and with China-U.S. relations again tense, Bochenski (who now goes by her married name Judy Hoarfrost) recalls what she saw in 1971. Can you describe the moment when you first learned the U.S. table tennis team was invited to China? Sure. I…

PERCENTAGE OF EMPLOYEES WHO … Worry about their health and safety 66% Believe companies should require require vaccines before return 62% Want to still work remotely some days 48% Likely to leave job if not allowed to to work remotely part of the time 47% Would take a lower salary to be able to work remotely part of the time 41% NOTE: Online representative survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults, February 2021. SOURCE: Wakefield Research, for Envoy…

The pandemic caused us all to rethink our relationship to the planet. While COVID-19 might have been the biggest news of last year, 2020 was also one of the worst years for climate change with environmental disasters and extreme weather events breaking all sorts of records. So for this Earth Day, we’re highlighting those thinking ahead and creating a more sustainable tomorrow. From Sweden’s renewable wind-powered amusement park to Copenhagen’s ski slope atop a waste-to-energy plant, to the world’s first 3D-printed neighborhood in Mexico, to vertical farms coming to Compton, California, these are sustainability innovations that will help make our planet more resilient for the future. 01 Vertical Farms Compton, California Plenty, a startup out of San Francisco, is taking the future of farming to the next level by building…

@JimOCampbell IT’S WELL KNOWN THAT BERNARD Madoff, now serving a 150-year prison sentence for a nearly $65 billion Ponzi scheme, is one of the greatest swindlers of all time. It’s less well known that he also ran an honest and successful market-making business, that he was one of the fathers of the NASDAQ stock market and that he pioneered the practice of trading firms paying retail brokers for the right to execute their customers’ trades (Robinhood, for instance, the company in the middle of the run-up of GameStop and other stocks this winter, receives payments from trading firms for its customer order flow). And it’s also less well known that other people who have never been prosecuted made far more from Madoff’s crimes than he ever did and that authorities had…

@k_rellihan THEY HAVE SINGING COMPETItions, isolate themselves by dialects, stick to unique food preferences, are led by generations of older, wiser matriarchs, celebrate their tribe’s identity, choose different parenting techniques, and gracefully mourn their dead. They’re just like us. As generations of fans eagerly await a sequel to the biggest box-office hit in history, Avatar, its Hollywood heavyweight director James Cameron reveals some big secrets about another mysterious world he’s putting on screen. This world is also inhabited by a highly cognitive, sentient species with huge brains, intricate social structures and complex communications skills. This is another threatened “Pandora” that needs to be understood in order to be protected, but this world isn’t from one of Cameron’s science fiction blockbusters. It’s right here on Earth, and the magical beings that…

IN THE HISTORY OF REALITY TV, BETHENNY FRANKEL IS UP THERE WITH the genre’s pioneers. While most people know her from Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City, she actually got her start as the runner-up on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, produced by Mark Burnett. Now, nearly 16 years later, she and Burnett have teamed up again for HBO Max’s The Big Shot with Bethenny (April 29), a reality series where contestants will compete to work for Frankel’s lifestyle brand Skinnygirl. “The thing that these people are competing for are all real. I need this person.” And it’s going to take someone unique. Frankel’s decision to leave Housewives wasn’t easy. “I never really had a big road map. I just make decisions with gut instinct.” She says the show…