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Blackwing tackles German supercars

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For decades we’ve looked upon Cadillac as a posh boulevard cruiser with a cushy soft ride suitable for weddings, funerals or a night on the town. While some vestiges remain with large SUVs and sedans, a stable of high-performance sedans is more at home in oval racetracks where it shows off its prowess and then some. Enter the V Series Blackwing sedans, CT4-V and CT5-V — available in limited production starting in 2022. Our test car — a CT5 V boasts a hand-built 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine mated with a 10-speed automatic transmission that develops 668 horsepower with untamed ...

‘Skynet Day’

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To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers a nuclear apocalypse. That ...

Let’s talk about bonds

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A reader asked about the capital appreciation potential of bonds: It’s sometimes said that bonds are a better investment than cash because bonds have the potential for underlying capital appreciation in addition to their regular yields. But what does the historical record say about that? Do bonds appreciate over time? And if so, how much? And how has this differed historically among different types of bonds? Strictly speaking, the underlying dollar value of most bonds won’t appreciate. With few exceptions, a bond’s price at maturity (also known as par value) will never ...

Former exchange student reunites with host

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NILES — In 1992, Alex Fuchs was a high school exchange student from Germany who spent an entire year with the Anthony and Jane Vigorito family and attended Niles McKinley High School. This week, Fuchs traveled back to Niles because he wanted to be with the family as his host father, ...