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  • Cardinals Take Weekend Wins Over Pomeroy, St. John-Endicott

    Keith Naughton, The Times|Feb 9, 2017

    WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg boys' basketball team racked up two more wins over the weekend, against Pomeroy and St. John-Endicott, to end their regular season schedule. The Cardinals move on to the playoffs, facing the winner of Thursday's Oakesdale vs. Colton game on Saturday at home. Waitsburg 59, Pomeroy 55 Playing first-place Pomeroy at home on Friday, the Cardinals played even with the Pirates in the first half, but trailed at intermission, 29-25. Waitsburg had a big offensive third q...

  • Robot Rides May Force Error-Prone Human Motorists Off the Road

    Keith Naughton, Bloomberg View|Sep 29, 2016

    New rules of the road for robot cars coming out of Washington this week could lead to the eventual extinction of one of the defining archetypes of the past century: the human driver. While banning people from driving may seem like something from a Kurt Vonnegut short story, it’s the logical endgame of a technology that could dramatically reduce -- or even eliminate -- the 1.25 million road deaths a year globally. Human error is the cause of 94 percent of roadway fatalities, U.S. safety regulators say, and robot drivers never get drunk, s...

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