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<p><h3>Jay Leno gets rare Chrysler, author gets plug for book</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2009, by <em>Detroit News</em></h4></p><p><a href="http://detnews.com/article/20090803/OPINION03/908030315/Jay-Leno-gets-rare-Chrysler--author-gets-plug-for-book">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2009-08-03</p><p>If not for the <em>Finnish American Reporter</em>, Steve Lehto would never have eaten barbecued chicken in Jay Leno's garage after taking a ride in a car that sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Also, Lehto wouldn't have finally found an agent for his book [<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chryslers-Turbine-Car-Detroits-Creation/dp/1569765499/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295724267&sr=1-1"><em>Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation</em></a>] about the Chrysler Turbine.<strong> The Chrysler Turbine was essentially a stylish, bronze-colored, four-seat sedan with a jet engine. It could run on gasoline, kerosene, or just about anything else, including Chanel No. 5 and tequila. Of the 55 that Chrysler produced, none were sold to the public, and all but nine were destroyed when the experiment ended. </strong>A collector in Indiana owns one. Museums have five. Chrysler had three -- and now one of them is [Jay] Leno's. "He offered to let me drive it if I was ever in town," Lehto says, "which I just happened to be, as soon as I could get tickets." Yelps and cheers from bystanders as they cruised the streets of Burbank. Cuisine from a grill in one of Leno's garages. Another ride in a steam-powered 1907 White. More yelps and cheers. Also, an offer from Leno. If it'll help sell the book, he'll write a [foreword]. It does help; a New York agent has agreed to shop it around. Lehto is still in car-buff heaven. "I was 3 feet across from Jay Leno," he marvels, "having lunch."</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-jay-leno-gets-rare-chrysler-author-gets-plug-book">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>ABC: What it's like to experience a brush with death</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2011, by ABC15 (Phoenix ABC affiliate)</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/science_tech/ABC-tonight%3A-What-it%27s-like-to-experience-a-brush-with-death">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2011-08-03</p><p>ABC’s Bob Woodruff probed the mysteries of near death experiences – including his own – in a special “Primetime Nightline.” ABC15 spoke with Woodruff. He told us so many people he interviewed for the story had an out-of-body experience, similar to his own when his group was hit by an IED 5 years ago while covering the war in Iraq. He told us when he woke up 36 days later he remembered seeing his body floating below him. Woodruff says others he spoke with describe experiences like his, but the thing he found interesting was, all of them say they weren’t scared. “<strong>Everyone said it was comfort, there was a lack of fear, and certainly no pain. All of them share that</strong>, no matter who they are that’s gone through this and it’s very, very interesting.” Woodruff also spoke with several doctors and scientists, who don’t necessarily reject these out-of-body experiences, but they’re just looking for answers. ABC15 wanted to know, how the people he interviewed felt about coming back to this world. Woodruff says, <strong>“Almost everybody said not only that they thought about staying, but generally wanted to stay. I, in some ways, was fine with staying.”</strong></p><b>Special Note:</b> If the above link fails, see <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111123002731/http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/science_tech/ABC-tonight%3A-What-it%27s-like-to-experience-a-brush-with-death">this webpage</a>. </p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-abc-what-its-like-experience-brush-with-death">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>C.I.A. Admits Government Lied About U.F.O. Sightings</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 1997, by <em>New York Times</em></h4></p><p><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3DF133DF930A3575BC0A961958260">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 1997-08-03</p><p><strong>In the darkest days of the cold war, the military lied to the American public about the true nature of many unidentified flying objects in an effort to hide its growing fleets of spy planes, a Central Intelligence Agency study says</strong>. The deceptions were made in the 1950's and 1960's amid a wave of U.F.O. sightings that alarmed the public and parts of official Washington. The C.I.A. study says the Air Force knew that most reports by citizens and aviation experts were based on fleeting glimpses of U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, which fly extremely high. Rather than acknowledging the existence of the top-secret flights or saying nothing about them publicly, the Air Force decided to put out false cover stories, the C.I.A. study says. For instance, unusual observations that were actually spy flights were attributed to atmospheric phenomena like ice crystals and temperature inversions. ''Over half of all U.F.O. reports from the late 1950's through the 1960's were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights'' over the United States, the C.I.A. study says. ''This led the Air Force to make misleading and deceptive statements to the public in order to allay public fears and to protect an extraordinarily sensitive national security project.'' <strong>The admission of Federal deception on the issue appears to be a first, experts said in interviews. </strong>''It's very significant,'' said Richard Hall, chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fund_for_UFO_Research">Fund for U.F.O. Research</a>, a group in Washington.</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-cia-admits-government-lied-about-ufo-sightings">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Trader jailed for 14 years over Libor rate-rigging</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2015, by BBC</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33763628">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2015-08-03</p><p><strong>Former City trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty at a London court of rigging global Libor interest rates. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud</strong>. The 35-year old is the first individual to face a jury trial for manipulating the rate, which is used as a benchmark for trillions of pounds of global borrowing and lending. Many of the world's leading banks have paid heavy financial penalties for tampering with the key benchmark. The case was brought by the Serious Fraud Office, which said <strong>Hayes set up a network of brokers and traders spanning 10 financial institutions and cajoled or bribed them to help rig Libor rates for profit</strong>. During the trial, jurors were told that Hayes promised to pay a broker <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32921361">up to $100,000</a> to keep the Libor rate "as low as possible". Defence barrister Neil Hawes asked the judge to take into account the prevalence of Libor manipulation at the time, and also that ... managers and senior managers at Hayes' bank knew of, and in some cases condoned, Libor manipulation. Hayes ... rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while working in Tokyo for UBS, then Citigroup, from 2006 until 2010. Rigging even minor movements in the rate can result in bumper profits for a trader manipulating the rates, or the rate can be moved simply to make a bank look more creditworthy.</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-trader-jailed-14-years-over-libor-raterigging">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>'Gene drive': Scientists sound alarm over supercharged GM organisms which could spread in the wild and cause environmental disasters</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2015, by <em>The Independent</em> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</h4></p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-sound-alarm-over-supercharged-gm-organisms-which-could-spread-in-the-wild-and-cause-10434010.html">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2015-08-03</p><p>A powerful new technique for generating “supercharged” genetically modified organisms that can spread rapidly in the wild has caused alarm among scientists. The development of so-called “gene drive” technology promises to revolutionize medicine and agriculture. However, scientists at the forefront of the development believe ... gene-drive technology poses a serious threat to the environment and human health if accidentally or deliberately released from a laboratory without adequate safeguards. Last week the US National Academy of Sciences initiated a wide-ranging review of gene-drive technology in “non-human organisms” and in this week’s journal <i>Science</i> a group of 27 leading geneticists call on the scientific community to be open and transparent about both the risks and benefits of gene drives. <strong>Researchers have likened gene-drive technology to a nuclear chain reaction because it allows GM genes to be amplified within a breeding population of insects or other animals without any further intervention once the trait has been initially introduced. This is the case even if the trait is non-beneficial to the organism</strong>. Laboratory experiments on fruit flies have shown that a modified gene introduced into one individual fly can take just a few generations to “infect” practically every other fly in the breeding population, in defiance of the normal rules of genetics which dictate a far slower spread. </p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-gene-drive-scientists-sound-alarm-over-supercharged-gm-organisms-which-could-spread-the-wild-cause-environmental-disasters">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Military's Social Science Grants Raise Alarm</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2008, by <em>Washington Post</em></h4></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080201544.html">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2008-08-03</p><p>The Pentagon's $50 million Minerva Research Initiative, named after the Roman goddess of wisdom and warriors, will fund social science research deemed crucial to national security. Initial proposals were due July 25, and the first grants are expected to be awarded by year's end. But the <a href="http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/">Network of Concerned Anthropologists</a> ... said dependence on Pentagon funding could make universities an "instrument rather than a critic of war-making." In a May 28 letter to federal officials, the American Anthropological Association said that ... its members are "deeply concerned that funding such research through the Pentagon may pose a potential conflict of interest." David Price, an anthropologist at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Wash., and the author of a book on anthropological intelligence in World War II, [said] the Pentagon effort is flawed. <strong>"It sets up sort of a Soviet system, or top-down system," Price said. "If you look at the big picture, this will not make us smarter -- this will make us much more narrow. It will only look at problems Defense wants us to in a narrow way."</strong> Recently, the Army's Human Terrain System has embedded social scientists in military units in Iraq and Afghanistan with the aim of helping commanders understand local culture and customs. The project has drawn criticism from many academics. Two scholars have been killed. The Network of Concerned Anthropologists, which describes itself as an advocate for ethical anthropology, said the research topics could "contribute to creating more national and human insecurity by trafficking in the construction of . . . a connection between Islam and violence."</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-militarys-social-science-grants-raise-alarm">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Chicago's 'Skullcap Crew': band of police accused of brutality evade discipline</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2016, by <em>The Guardian</em> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</h4></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/03/chicago-skullcap-crew-police-brutality">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2016-08-03</p><p>When Ebony Buggs followed the noise of commotion to a vacant unit below her apartment on Chicago’s West Side, she found a group of men beating teens from the neighborhood. <strong>One man grabbed her and punched her in the face, according to Buggs, now 26. Buggs’ mother, seeing her daughter lying on the ground, threatened to call the police. “We are the police,” one of the men responded, as he grabbed her phone and threw it</strong>. The man who Buggs alleges beat her is Edwin Utreras. He was part of a group of five officers that city residents dubbed the “Skullcap Crew”, who patrolled the city’s South Side public housing communities until they were torn down. The members of this crew – Edwin Utreras, Robert Stegmiller, Christ Savickas, Andrew Schoeff and Joe Seinitz – have together faced at least 128 known official allegations from more than 60 citizen-filed complaints over almost a decade and a half. They have also been named in more than 20 federal lawsuits. Yet over the course of their careers, these officers have received little discipline. Instead, they have won praise from the department, accruing more than 180 commendations. All of them remain on the force except Seinitz, who resigned in 2007. The <a href="https://cpdb.co/data/bz4wKD/citizens-police-data-project">Citizens Police Data Project</a>, a repository of more than 56,000 official complaints against police, has found that less than 3% of Chicago police misconduct complaints lead to disciplinary action.</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-chicagos-skullcap-crew-band-police-accused-brutality-evade-discipline">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Facebook Co-Founder Giving Millions Directly To The Poor, No Strings Attached</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2015, by <em>Huffington Post</em></h4></p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-co-founder-giving-millions-directly-to-the-poor-no-strings-attached_55be806ee4b0d4f33a03299f">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2015-08-03</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.givedirectly.org/">GiveDirectly</a> has a straightforward approach to helping the world's poorest people: just give them cash, no strings attached</strong>. The New York-based nonprofit has distributed about $1,000 — roughly a year's income — to thousands of ultra-poor households in Kenya and Uganda. Recipients don't need to pay back the money, and they can spend it however they wish. This might seem like a radical idea, but it's not. <strong>Cash transfers have quietly become one of the most <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/givedirectly-cash-transfers_n_7339040.html">widely researched</a> and consistently effective anti-poverty strategies in the developing world</strong>. Now GiveDirectly's work is receiving a major boost from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, who on Monday announced a $25 million donation through their foundation Good Ventures. The gift is greater than GiveDirectly's entire 2014 budget. "Governments and donors spend tens of billions of dollars a year on reducing poverty," Tuna said in a statement, "but the people who are meant to benefit from that money rarely get a say in how it’s spent. GiveDirectly is changing that." Moskovitz and Tuna, both in their early 30s, are among the youngest billionaires to pledge the bulk of their fortune to charity. Their goal isn't just to do good, but to do the most good possible. That goal led them to support exhaustive research to determine which organizations working in poor countries are most effective and cost-efficient. That research, in turn, led them to GiveDirectly - the only nonprofit focused exclusively on cash transfers. </p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-facebook-cofounder-giving-millions-directly-the-poor-no-strings-attached">here</a></p><hr>
<p><h3>Ask the Experts: What Is a Near-Death Experience?</h3></p><p><h4>Published on this day in 2011, by ABC News Nightline</h4></p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/beyondbelief/experts-death-experience/story?id=14221154#.UEt0CqDAHLQ">Original Article Source</a>, Dated 2011-08-03</p><p> What does a NDE look and feel like? There are thousands upon thousands of descriptions, all of which show striking similarities between different people's experiences -- the white light, a tunnel, a life review and sense of peace -- so there does seem to exist a unifying thread throughout. Caroline Myss, a best-selling author and a speaker on spirituality and health, focuses on the first explanation. "A near-death experience is a phenomenon in which a person's physical body ceases to have any signs of life, and the soul detaches from the body and begins what could be called the journey into the afterlife. ... A long tunnel of light begins to appear. ... <strong>What's so phenomenal is that the descriptions [people] give, no matter what culture, no matter what background, match the ancient descriptions ... from various cultures. So if these experiences were in fact made up or hallucinatory, somebody did a very good job of getting that information out to multiple cultures at the same time."</strong> Dr. Jeffrey Long runs the <a href="http://www.nderf.org/">Near Death Experience Research Foundation</a>. He defines the physical conditions of someone having a NDE as "unconscious ... or actually clinically dead, with absent heartbeat and no spontaneous respiration. ... And yet when they shouldn't have any conscious remembering at this time, they do. ... While no two NDEs are the same, if you study large numbers of NDEs you see that very consistent pattern of elements."</p><p><strong>Note</strong>: Read the complete summary and notes <a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-ask-experts-what-a-neardeath-experience">here</a></p><hr>
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