| The start-ups in an upstart US economy Posted: 29 Sep 2017 11:33 AM PDT ![The start-ups in an upstart US economy]( "The start-ups in an upstart US economy") The main reason for this progress is that Americans have maintained a "vibrant innovation ecosystem" that helps improve worker productivity, according to the World Economic Forum, which publishes the Global Competitiveness Report with country rankings. Will electric vehicles or driverless cars create more jobs? It is No. 1 in how it finances entrepreneurs, for example.
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| Behind the ‘paradox of fear’: Crime is down, but many Americans don’t feel safe Posted: 29 Sep 2017 10:32 AM PDT ![Behind the 'paradox of fear': Crime is down, but many Americans don't feel safe]( "Behind the 'paradox of fear': Crime is down, but many Americans don't feel safe") As recently as five years ago, says Urban Pie pizza shop owner Lisa Curtis, crime was so bad in her Atlanta neighborhood that newly planted rose bushes would get dug up and carted away by thieves. The Zone 6 precinct has become the city's most peaceful corner, according to an Atlanta Police Department analysis. Recommended: Can you pass the written police officer exam?
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| Reshaping colonial cities, African architects reclaim history – and the future Posted: 29 Sep 2017 09:51 AM PDT ![Reshaping colonial cities, African architects reclaim history – and the future]( "Reshaping colonial cities, African architects reclaim history – and the future") For decades, crammed neighborhoods of matchbox houses and tin shacks lined the edges of South Africa's cities like grand human filing cabinets: places the white government could store the vast quantities of black labor it needed to keep the country going. Today, however, these architectural afterthoughts have become the sites of some of the country's most creative and forward-thinking design projects – buildings that seem by their very existence to demand a new way of seeing places once confined to the margins of both South Africa's cities and its history. Among these projects is the airy and elegant community history museum that now soars above the township of Cato Manor in Durban, a coastal city here.
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| In Spain, Catalans try independence path that Basques feared to tread Posted: 29 Sep 2017 08:09 AM PDT ![In Spain, Catalans try independence path that Basques feared to tread]( "In Spain, Catalans try independence path that Basques feared to tread") Helena Gartzia has wanted independence for the Basque region her entire life. Today, though, it is the Catalans who are making the running in the independence stakes, scheduling a referendum for Sunday that will ask residents in the northeastern region of 7.5 million inhabitants if they want a Catalonia free from Spanish rule. Largely, observers say, because the Basque regional government has given up on Gartzia's dream of independence, settling for a generous chunk of autonomy instead.
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