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Engaging Donors In Smart Compassion: Usaid Cidi’S Greatest Good Donation Calculator, Koray Özpolat, Juanita Rilling, Nezih Altay, Eric Chavez

Koray Özpolat

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Americans Can Learn To Live With A Sky Full Of Drones, Koray Özpolat, Resit Sendag

Koray Özpolat

Skynet, the evil super-computer of the Terminator movies, becomes self-aware, computes an existential threat from humanity and launches a nuclear attack on the enemy. To eradicate humans, Skynet builds terminator robots and hunter-killer drones.

While Terminator fans are looking forward to seeing the next stage of the war against machines (due to be released next year), many Americans are concerned that actual attacks on their privacy and safety will soon be coming from the sky — through unmanned aerial vehicles, a.k.a. “drones.”

Popular coverage of drones tends to play into this theme, whether it’s a politician shooting down a drone …

Reshoring Offers Hope To R.I., U.S., Koray Özpolat, Stu Westin

Koray Özpolat

While dining with Silicon Valley executives in February 2011, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to manufacture iPhones in the United States. Jobs, in his straightforward tone, replied: “These jobs aren’t coming back!” Surprisingly, only two years later, Jobs’s successor Tim Cook announced Apple’s plans to bring some manufacturing jobs home by making the new iMacs in the U.S. Since then, reports of iMacs sporting a backside stamp “Assembled in USA” have flooded the media.