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On the one hand, innovation stories are mainstream news. You can read about new technologies, groundbreaking research and pioneering gadgets in online news magazines or in print in newspapers. There are YouTube videos, news videos and podcasts galore all dedicated to new innovations. Innovation stories pre-2007 were relegated to the Business section of a newspaper. After the iPhone and Android smartphones settled into the palms of people's hands the world over, many more peop

Crazy driving. Skewed news. Innovation ideas. Asking for another explanation. These were some of the topics that came up during a panel in Tel Aviv last week, for visiting students from the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College. It was their last day of a 10-day educational trip around Israel and the Palestinian Authority areas. “Inside the Middle East doesn’t tell you what to think, ITME teaches you how to think,” reads the tagline of the program. We talked about the pr