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The New Supersonic Boom

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Meanwhile, environmentalists were voicing concern—about how noisy such aircraft are taking off, about the possibility that their high-altitude emissions would erode the ozone layer, and about how disruptive the sonic booms would be. The last of these issues was perhaps the most vexing, prompting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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The classic example of path dependence is the establishment of the conventional QWERTY keyboard standard on typewriters in the late 19th century and computers thereafter. Before the Great Boston Fire of 1872, the value of much real estate had been held down by the presence of crumbling buildings nearby. The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

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