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The second place winner in the recent VisionWorks competition, which sought new ideas and technologies to help create and sustain better living conditions, was an unusual proposal by Philipp Hermes that involves using track-mounted containers to ship objects, documents and goods around the city. Though the project, dubbed Urban Mole (pictured), sounds expensive, the beauty [...]

You may have heard the recent (though extremely predictable) news that the United States Postal Service has casually gone into about $6 billion in debt. We sort of suspect that their checks from the government are just getting lost in the mail, but that possibility doesn’t seem to concern the officials working this case.
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