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Data centers are marvels

Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ. A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of ...

One boy brings neighborhood together

Many people across the nation were touched by the heartwarming story of Roman Butzlaff, a 4-year-old boy in Concord, North Carolina, who befriended several of his elderly neighbors and became their adopted grandson. When the CBS Evening News aired its July 10 "On the Road" feature on Roman, I ...

Believing in yourself can make you grow

The first thing Mariel Gardner mentioned was the sound. Cicadas and katydids buzzed while butterflies and bees drifted among bright yellow blooms in Louisville's Chickasaw Park. Gardner smiled. "This is what I wanted to hear," she said. A new aptly named Butterfly and Bee Pollinator Meadow honors Muhammad Ali, but Gardner hopes it also reminds Louisville of something else: what believing in yourself can grow. Everybody knows Muhammad Ali as the Champ, the GOAT. What they don't know is the Kentucky kid who believed in himself and understood his worth long before the world ...

The new normal: Abnormal

There's poison in the air outside my house, a bitter smoke of ashes and hot freeway, and it is keeping us all inside. Yesterday morning, the kids' summer camp announced that the planned trip to the pool had been cancelled. They would do activities indoors all day. "How high can it ...

Map tells story about what matters

New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach – these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America's largest city while gradually becoming part of ...

Big Boy sparks nationwide reunion

In Virginia Lee Burton's classic 1939 children's book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel," Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, "could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week. Mulligan never gets the chance to prove his boast because electric, diesel and ...