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Expecting the unexpected simply routine for WSF ferry crews

Washington State Fer-ries (WSF) Capt. Joel Michelson barely finished explaining how every Elliott Bay passage is a little different when he got a message proving his point. Down below, a passenger was unconscious and suffering a seizure.

In The Heartland One Sweet Match

U.S. Sugar Partners With Sugar Sands Distillery to Make Hand Sanitizer

Florida's Rich Blueberry History

Decades of Hard Work by Agricultural Pioneers Made the Industry What It Is Today

AgriTECH

Cloud-Based Technology Helps Farmers Count Citrus Trees

SIGNS of the SEASON

Florida’s Climate Is Perfect for Growing Watermelon

UP AGAINST THE ODDS

Florida Blueberry Growers Work Through Pandemic

Coordinated Research

Industrial Hemp Pilot Project Expands to On-Farm Trials

AGRISHOPPER

Tricks to Help You Beat the Heat This Summer

Agri NEWS

Finger Limes May Be Next Up in Establishing Florida’s Dominance in Citrus

A Hunger for Homegrown

COVID-19 Gives Unexpected Boost to Demand American Grown Campaign.

Ag Time WITH ABBY

Here by the Owl... Welcome Mrs. Walker

What Are Investors Thinking?

The U.S. stock market has climbed back even with the country in crisis. Psychology is part of the story

Tweet Storm

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has chosen an interesting time to pick a fight with his most important user

The Shrimp Are Going Online

Small European companies that have embraced e-commerce have better odds of surviving the crisis

THE PARIAH SHIP

The cruise industry was already in a Covid-19 crisis when the MS Zaandam set sail. Yet Holland America was unprepared when people began to fall sick and country after country turned the ship away

The New Normal at An Indian Outsourcer

HCL has started bringing its 150,000 workers back to the office. It’s not business as usual

Liability Risks Come Back to Work, Too

Without a vaccine, some returnees will get sick, and businesses may end up in court

Why Drug Reps Are Prescribing Zoom

A business that’s long relied on face-to-face sales adopts social distancing in the Covid age

Call Centers Can't Simply Stay Home

Concern about data security, power outages, and poor internet service fuels a return to offices

Virus Slows Dubai Airport, World's Busiest For Global Travel

Perhaps nowhere is the world’s lack of flights due to the coronavirus pandemic more clearly felt than at Dubai International Airport, for years the world’s busiest for international travel.

Cinema Chain AMC Warns It May Not Survive The Pandemic

Movie theater chain AMC warned that it may not survive the coronavirus pandemic, which has shuttered its theaters and led film studios to explore releasing more movies directly to viewers over the internet.

Scanning the Sewers

Startup Biobot Analytics is testing swaths of Americans’ waste on behalf of local governments

FALL OUT

The pandemic has sent American workers plummeting into a safety net that wasn’t prepared to catch them

The Great Debt divide

In an economy hobbled by the pandemic, you can go bankrupt or you can borrow—a lot

Searching for Secrets In High- Altitude DNA

Variant Bio is hunting for rare genes that its researchers hope to turn into drugs and therapies, including some Covid-relevant ones

The economics of racism

Mainstream economics has many ideas about getting beyond racism. Which lessons apply in real life?

One Country, One System

HONG KONG WAS S UPP OSED TO GOVERN ITSELF. SO MUCH FOR THAT

Is This the Fake Egg's Moment?

Eat Just is building a small but early niche in China, a world away from its former name and vegan mayo scandals

The Woman Who Can Sell Anything

Is Chinese live-streamer Viya, who sold about $425 million of goods in a day, retailing’s future?

A Buyout Firm's Four-Legged Future

JAB made billions buying coffee brands. Now it wants to be the vet for the world’s pets