Beats Hellfire missiles: Facebook is working on a solar-powered drone with a 140-foot wingspan that would broadcast Internet signals to regions too remote and impoverished for conventional broadband networks (Page A9).
Unfortunately, drones can’t beam down things like safe drinking water, basic health care and honest government.
Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: In the new TV series “Proof,” Jennifer Beals plays a brilliant surgeon who investigates near-death experiences (Short Takes, Page D6).
Spoiler alert: In an upcoming episode, Beals is plagued by eerie visions of the leg warmers and baggy sweatshirts she wore in “Flashdance.”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern after reports that Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment (Today in History, Page D6).
One could argue that about half the 2016 GOP presidential field should withdraw their candidacies unless they undergo psychiatric treatment.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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