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I didn't post my thoughts, and I'm glad I didn't. I was wrong. Here's an interesting story regarding the legal rights of "Marathon Bomber #2."

WSJ Links

Section D (Off Duty): later

Section C (Review): later

Section B (Business & Finance):

• How Boeing rescued the 787. [Update: July 12, 2013 -- perhaps not so fast.]

The Federal Aviation Administration's decision to let Boeing Co.'s BA +2.14% grounded 787 Dreamliners return to the air caps three months of sometimes dramatic strategy shifts by the company to demonstrate the plane's safety and salvage its flagship product.

Boeing's efforts to revamp the Dreamliner's lithium-ion battery system since a pair of the devices burned in January has marked one of the highest-profile, and riskiest, efforts in the industry's history to retool a jetliner already in production. 

In Friday's announcement approving the 787's redesigned battery system, FAA chief Michael Huerta said agency experts oversaw "rigorous tests" and "devoted weeks to reviewing detailed analysis" to ensure the new system's safety. The decision sets the stage for the FAA to issue detailed mandates next week for airlines to complete the modifications to the roughly 50 Dreamliners previously delivered. The changes include internal enhancements to the battery and a new containment box.

• Here comes the next hot emerging market: the US. Huge story. President Obama will miss harvesting the fruit, but the next president will inherit a a bumper crop of great economic news. It was probably beyond any president to significantly hasten the economic turnaround due to the energy revolution that began in 2007, but it certainly seems President Obama, in hindsight, was the wrong man to lead America in 2008. His ideology might have worked in a different setting, but the energy revolution in America changed everything. Unfortunately, ideology got in the way, and success was delayed.  No one in 2008 saw it coming, but by 2010, it was becoming obvious; by 2012, it was obvious, and yet the president, in public speeches, failed to recognize it. To the best of my knowledge, he has not visited the Bakken, the Permian, or the Eagle Ford. He has not visited Alberta. His administration did fund a score of solar energy companies that have since gone bankrupt or, if still solvent, irrelevant.

• A good example of the preceding is seen in the next story: Airline groups fight cuts. 

Airline trade groups filed suit to prevent the FAA from furloughing air-traffic controllers, a step the FAA has warned could cause thousands of daily flight delays beginning this weekend.

Somehow I think one could tie "national security" to efficient FAA operations. 

Op-ed: Emily Loving Aaronson: On the Front-Lines of Battlefield Triage in Boston. The bombing victims came in waves, and then came the false rumors.