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U(D54G1D)y+@!%!\!#!/ Earnings have driven the aircraft build- er and defense contractor to the top of the Dow, James Stewart writes. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 Up and Away for Boeing Nationally, cremations outnumber burials, and that may soon be true in the metropolitan area as well. PAGE A18 NEW YORK A16-19 Ashes to Ashes A surge of asylum seekers — mostly Haitians — entering Quebec from the United States is proving a test for the Trudeau government. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-9 ‘Canada Is My Only Hope’ Israel is building a subterranean barri- er around the Gaza Strip, designed to cut off militants’ tunnels. PAGE A9 Israel Goes Underground HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In a sleek laboratory at Marshall Uni- versity last month, four high school teachers hunched over a miniature steam-electric boiler, a tabletop replica of the gigantic machinery found in power plants. They hooked the boiler to a small, whirring generator and tin- kered with valves and knobs, look- ing for the most efficient way to turn coal, natural gas, nuclear or solar energy into electricity. The teachers, who were attend- ing a summer training program, are helping West Virginia in an- other kind of transformation. Long one of the poorest states, it is now leading the way in turning vo- cational education from a Plan B for underachieving students into what policy makers hope will be a fuel source for the state’s eco- nomic revival. Simulated workplaces, over- seen by teachers newly trained in important state industries like health, coal and even fracking, are now operating in schools across the state. Students punch a time clock, are assigned professional roles like foreman or safety super- visor, and are even offered several vacation days of their choice in ad- dition to regular school breaks. (Many take time off during deer hunting season.) Traditional math and English teachers have been reassigned to In High School, The Workplace Comes to Class By DANA GOLDSTEIN Continued on Page A14 In a striking advance that helps open the door to organ transplants from animals, researchers have created gene-edited piglets cleansed of viruses that might cause disease in humans. The experiments, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, may make it possible one day to transplant livers, hearts and other organs from pigs into humans, a hope that experts had all but giv- en up. If pig organs were shown to be safe and effective, “they could be a real game changer,” said Dr. David Klassen, chief medical officer at the United Network for Organ Sharing, a private, nonprofit orga- nization that manages the nation’s transplant system. There were 33,600 organ trans- plants last year, and 116,800 pa- tients on waiting lists, according to Dr. Klassen, who was not in- volved in the new study. “There’s a big gap between organ supply and organ demand,” he said. Dr. George Church, a geneticist at Harvard who led the experi- ments, said the first pig-to-human transplants could occur within two years. The new research combines two great achievements in recent years — gene editing and cloning — and is unfolding quickly. But the work is novel and its course un- predictable, Dr. Klassen noted. It may be years before enough is known about the safety of pig or- gan transplants to allow them to be used widely. The idea of using pigs as organ factories has tantalized investiga- tors for decades. Porcine organs can be the right size for human transplantation, and in theory, similar enough to function in pa- tients. But the prospect also raises thorny questions about animal ex- ploitation and welfare. Already an estimated 100 million pigs are killed in the United States each year for food. Scientists pursuing this goal ar- Gain May Usher In Pig-to-Human Transplants By GINA KOLATA Piglets whose genes were edited to remove retroviruses that might cause disease in humans. EGENESIS Continued on Page A15 BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Presi- dent Trump escalated his war of words with North Korea on Thurs- day by declaring that his provoca- tive threat to rain down “fire and fury” might not have been harsh enough, as nuclear tensions be- tween the two nations continued to crackle. Rejecting critics at home and abroad who condemned his earli- er warning as reckless saber-rat- tling, Mr. Trump said North Korea and its volatile leader, Kim Jong- un, have pushed the United States and the rest of the world for too long. “Frankly, the people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough? Maybe it wasn’t tough enough,” he told reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. “They’ve been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years, and it’s about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries. So if anything, maybe that statement wasn’t tough enough.” Mr. Trump noted that North Ko- rea, which has made significant progress toward developing long- range nuclear weapons, re- sponded to his original warning by threatening to launch a missile strike toward the Pacific island of Guam, an American territory and strategic base. “If he does some- thing in Guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before, what will happen in North Korea,” he said. Asked if that was a dare, Mr. Trump said: “It’s not a dare. It’s a statement. Has nothing to do with dare. That’s a statement. He’s not going to go around threatening Guam and he’s not going to threat- en the United States and he’s not going to threaten Japan, and he’s not going to threaten South Korea. No, that’s not a dare, as you say. That is a statement of fact.” Mr. Trump made his latest com- ments on North Korea during a pair of televised media events that covered a dizzying array of topics. PRESIDENT SAYS THREAT OF ‘FURY’ MAY BE TOO TEPID NORTH KOREA WARNINGS Possibility of a Strike Is Unnerving Allies and Americans By PETER BAKER President Trump promised on Thursday “an event the likes of which nobody has seen before” if North Korea attacked Guam. AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A6 WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday sharply am- plified his criticism of the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, raising the possibil- ity that Mr. McConnell should re- linquish his position if he cannot deliver on top legislative priori- ties. After venting for days, on Twit- ter and in private, over the Sen- ate’s failure to pass a health care repeal bill before the August re- cess, Mr. Trump was asked if Mr. McConnell should consider step- ping down. “I’ll tell you what,” Mr. Trump began, speaking to reporters out- side his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., “if he doesn’t get repeal and replace done and if he doesn’t get taxes done, meaning cuts and re- form, and if he doesn’t get a very easy one to get done, infrastruc- ture — if he doesn’t get them done, then you can ask me that ques- tion.” Asked whether that answer amounted to a yes or a no, Mr. Trump replied: “That means ask me that question. Let’s hope he gets it done.” The comments were a remark- able acceleration of tensions be- tween a president aggrieved at his lack of significant legislative ac- complishments and a lawmaker in charge of shepherding his agenda through a Republican-led Con- gress. They also signaled a conspicu- ous desire from Mr. Trump, who often campaigned as a renegade outsider with few meaningful alle- giances to either party, to position himself once more as a crusader TRUMP SHARPENS POINTED CRITIQUE OF SENATE LEADER DEEPENS RIFT IN PARTY Anger Over McConnell’s Lack of Legislative Achievements By MATT FLEGENHEIMER Continued on Page A13 SEOUL, South Korea — In China, the man threatening to fire missiles at the United States is of- ten derided as a chubby brat. In the United States, a senator re- cently referred to him as “this crazy fat kid.” President Trump once called him “a total nut job.” But the target of all that scorn, Kim Jong-un, the 33-year-old leader of North Korea, has long been underestimated. Mr. Kim was the youngest of three sons yet leapfrogged his brothers to succeed his father, Kim Jong-il. Many analysts dis- missed him as an inexperienced figurehead when he took power at 27; some predicted he would never last. But almost six years later, there is little doubt he is firmly in control. Now, against long odds, Mr. Kim is on the verge of making his iso- lated, impoverished nation one of very few in the world that can hit the United States with a nuclear missile — defying not only the Trump administration but also in- ternational sanctions and North Korea’s traditional allies in Bei- jing. Some have urged President Trump to open negotiations with him. But it is unclear whether Mr. Kim is interested in talking, or what if anything he might demand in exchange for freezing or aban- doning his nuclear program. He has made building a nuclear ar- senal a top priority, arguing that it is the only way the North can guarantee its security and de- velop its economy. His ultimate motives, like many details of his life, are uncertain. Since taking power, Mr. Kim has yet to travel abroad or host a visit from another head of state. Only a few people outside North Korea have been allowed to meet him, among them the former basket- ball star Dennis Rodman, a Japa- nese sushi chef and the vice presi- dents of Cuba and China. What little is known of Mr. Kim’s record suggests ruthlessness — and some ideological flexibility. South Korean intelligence offi- cials say Mr. Kim has executed scores of senior officials, includ- ing his own uncle, a wily power broker who had been seen as his mentor. He is also assumed to have ordered the assassination of his half brother, who was poisoned by VX nerve agent at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia in February. Yet Mr. Kim is also credited with loosening state controls on the economy and engineering modest growth, and regaining some of the public confidence that the dynas- tic regime enjoyed under his grandfather and lost under his fa- ther, whose rule is remembered for a devastating famine. “Smart, pragmatic, decisive,” A Young Dictator, Once Underestimated, Is Now in Firm Control By CHOE SANG-HUN Kim Jong-un was described as “smart” but “ready to kill.” WONG MAYE-E/ASSOCIATED PRESS Continued on Page A7 Obama-era projects designed to fight teenage pregnancy are scheduled to be eliminated under the budget proposed by President Trump. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-15 Pregnancy Education Is at Risk Plenty of designs have been proposed to replace the much-maligned state flag, but momentum to actually change it has always withered. PAGE A10 Nebraskans Waver on Banner “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist” in Chi- cago shows a genius with a dark side. A review by Jason Farago. PAGE C13 WEEKEND ARTS C1-20 The Breadth of an Artist “The Terms of My Surrender” features Mr. Moore’s self-aggrandizing shtick. A review by Jesse Green. PAGE C1 Michael Moore on Broadway With Michael Phelps looking on, Jordan Spieth struggled in the opening round of the P.G.A. Championship. PAGE B8 SPORTSFRIDAY B8-11 One Star Athlete to Another Paul Krugman PAGE A20 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21 Claims that Rafael Márquez aided a drug kingpin could have wide-ranging effects beyond the soccer star himself. PAGE B8 A Web of Consequences A top Uber investor sued Travis Kalan- ick, accusing him of fraud in an effort to remove him as a director. PAGE B1 New Move to Oust Kalanick pose risks that the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, might retali- ate, setting off a spiral of escala- tion that could plunge the Korean Peninsula into war. “In the event of a first strike against Kim, even a non-nuclear option, it is highly likely that Kim would retaliate at least conven- tionally against South Korea,” said James Stavridis, a retired four-star admiral who is now dean of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and WASHINGTON — North Korea’s threat on Thursday to test-fire ballistic missiles soon near the American territory of Guam deepened the challenge confronting the Trump adminis- tration: how to defang Pyong- yang’s missile programs without risking all-out war. President Trump has made clear that his goal is to deny North Korea the capability to field a long-range nuclear-tipped missile that could strike the United States. And though the Pentagon still hopes for a diplomatic solution, highly classified military options are at the ready, last seriously debated when the Clinton admin- istration pondered pre-emptive action to try to thwart North Korea’s nuclear program. Even a limited strike against a North Korean missile on its launching pad or the shooting down of a missile in midair would NEWS ANALYSIS Wrestling With North Korea, Trump Finds Perilous Options By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT A South Korean soldier near the Korean demilitarized zone. KIM HONG-JI/REUTERS Continued on Page A6 Critics question the environmental and monetary costs of creating what Gov. Scott Walker says will be up to 13,000 new jobs. PAGE A15 Wisconsin’s Doubts on Foxconn Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,686 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2017 Today, some sunshine giving way to clouds, high 82. Tonight, mostly cloudy, a few showers, low 69. 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Earnings have driven the aircraft build-er and defense contractor to the top ofthe Dow, James Stewart writes. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
Up and Away for Boeing
Nationally, cremations outnumberburials, and that may soon be true inthe metropolitan area as well. PAGE A18
NEW YORK A16-19
Ashes to Ashes
A surge of asylum seekers — mostlyHaitians — entering Quebec from theUnited States is proving a test for theTrudeau government. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-9
‘Canada Is My Only Hope’
Israel is building a subterranean barri-er around the Gaza Strip, designed tocut off militants’ tunnels. PAGE A9
Israel Goes Underground
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In asleek laboratory at Marshall Uni-versity last month, four highschool teachers hunched over aminiature steam-electric boiler, atabletop replica of the giganticmachinery found in power plants.
They hooked the boiler to asmall, whirring generator and tin-kered with valves and knobs, look-ing for the most efficient way toturn coal, natural gas, nuclear orsolar energy into electricity.
The teachers, who were attend-ing a summer training program,are helping West Virginia in an-other kind of transformation.Long one of the poorest states, it isnow leading the way in turning vo-cational education from a Plan Bfor underachieving students intowhat policy makers hope will be afuel source for the state’s eco-nomic revival.
Simulated workplaces, over-seen by teachers newly trained inimportant state industries likehealth, coal and even fracking, arenow operating in schools acrossthe state. Students punch a timeclock, are assigned professionalroles like foreman or safety super-visor, and are even offered severalvacation days of their choice in ad-dition to regular school breaks.(Many take time off during deerhunting season.)
Traditional math and Englishteachers have been reassigned to
In High School,The WorkplaceComes to Class
By DANA GOLDSTEIN
Continued on Page A14
In a striking advance that helpsopen the door to organ transplantsfrom animals, researchers havecreated gene-edited pigletscleansed of viruses that mightcause disease in humans.
The experiments, reported onThursday in the journal Science,may make it possible one day totransplant livers, hearts and otherorgans from pigs into humans, ahope that experts had all but giv-en up.
If pig organs were shown to besafe and effective, “they could be areal game changer,” said Dr. DavidKlassen, chief medical officer atthe United Network for Organ
Sharing, a private, nonprofit orga-nization that manages the nation’stransplant system.
There were 33,600 organ trans-plants last year, and 116,800 pa-tients on waiting lists, accordingto Dr. Klassen, who was not in-volved in the new study. “There’sa big gap between organ supplyand organ demand,” he said.
Dr. George Church, a geneticistat Harvard who led the experi-ments, said the first pig-to-humantransplants could occur withintwo years.
The new research combinestwo great achievements in recentyears — gene editing and cloning— and is unfolding quickly. But thework is novel and its course un-
predictable, Dr. Klassen noted.It may be years before enough
is known about the safety of pig or-gan transplants to allow them tobe used widely.
The idea of using pigs as organfactories has tantalized investiga-tors for decades. Porcine organscan be the right size for humantransplantation, and in theory,similar enough to function in pa-tients.
But the prospect also raisesthorny questions about animal ex-ploitation and welfare. Already anestimated 100 million pigs arekilled in the United States eachyear for food.
Scientists pursuing this goal ar-
Gain May Usher In Pig-to-Human TransplantsBy GINA KOLATA
Piglets whose genes were edited to remove retroviruses that might cause disease in humans.EGENESIS
Continued on Page A15
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Presi-dent Trump escalated his war ofwords with North Korea on Thurs-day by declaring that his provoca-tive threat to rain down “fire andfury” might not have been harshenough, as nuclear tensions be-tween the two nations continuedto crackle.
Rejecting critics at home andabroad who condemned his earli-er warning as reckless saber-rat-tling, Mr. Trump said North Koreaand its volatile leader, Kim Jong-un, have pushed the United Statesand the rest of the world for toolong.
“Frankly, the people who werequestioning that statement, was ittoo tough? Maybe it wasn’t toughenough,” he told reporters at hisgolf club in Bedminster, N.J.“They’ve been doing this to ourcountry for a long time, for manyyears, and it’s about time thatsomebody stuck up for the peopleof this country and for the peopleof other countries. So if anything,maybe that statement wasn’ttough enough.”
Mr. Trump noted that North Ko-rea, which has made significantprogress toward developing long-range nuclear weapons, re-sponded to his original warningby threatening to launch a missilestrike toward the Pacific island ofGuam, an American territory andstrategic base. “If he does some-thing in Guam, it will be an eventthe likes of which nobody has seenbefore, what will happen in NorthKorea,” he said.
Asked if that was a dare, Mr.Trump said: “It’s not a dare. It’s astatement. Has nothing to do withdare. That’s a statement. He’s notgoing to go around threateningGuam and he’s not going to threat-en the United States and he’s notgoing to threaten Japan, and he’snot going to threaten South Korea.No, that’s not a dare, as you say.That is a statement of fact.”
Mr. Trump made his latest com-ments on North Korea during apair of televised media events thatcovered a dizzying array of topics.
PRESIDENT SAYSTHREAT OF ‘FURY’MAY BE TOO TEPID
NORTH KOREA WARNINGS
Possibility of a Strike IsUnnerving Alliesand Americans
By PETER BAKER
President Trump promised on Thursday “an event the likes of which nobody has seen before” if North Korea attacked Guam.AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A6
WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump on Thursday sharply am-plified his criticism of the Senatemajority leader, Mitch McConnellof Kentucky, raising the possibil-ity that Mr. McConnell should re-linquish his position if he cannotdeliver on top legislative priori-ties.
After venting for days, on Twit-ter and in private, over the Sen-ate’s failure to pass a health carerepeal bill before the August re-cess, Mr. Trump was asked if Mr.McConnell should consider step-ping down.
“I’ll tell you what,” Mr. Trumpbegan, speaking to reporters out-side his golf club in Bedminster,N.J., “if he doesn’t get repeal andreplace done and if he doesn’t gettaxes done, meaning cuts and re-form, and if he doesn’t get a veryeasy one to get done, infrastruc-ture — if he doesn’t get them done,then you can ask me that ques-tion.”
Asked whether that answeramounted to a yes or a no, Mr.Trump replied: “That means askme that question. Let’s hope hegets it done.”
The comments were a remark-able acceleration of tensions be-tween a president aggrieved at hislack of significant legislative ac-complishments and a lawmaker incharge of shepherding his agendathrough a Republican-led Con-gress.
They also signaled a conspicu-ous desire from Mr. Trump, whooften campaigned as a renegadeoutsider with few meaningful alle-giances to either party, to positionhimself once more as a crusader
TRUMP SHARPENSPOINTED CRITIQUEOF SENATE LEADER
DEEPENS RIFT IN PARTY
Anger Over McConnell’s Lack of Legislative
Achievements
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Continued on Page A13
SEOUL, South Korea — InChina, the man threatening to firemissiles at the United States is of-ten derided as a chubby brat. Inthe United States, a senator re-cently referred to him as “thiscrazy fat kid.” President Trumponce called him “a total nut job.”
But the target of all that scorn,Kim Jong-un, the 33-year-oldleader of North Korea, has longbeen underestimated.
Mr. Kim was the youngest ofthree sons yet leapfrogged hisbrothers to succeed his father,Kim Jong-il. Many analysts dis-missed him as an inexperiencedfigurehead when he took power at27; some predicted he would
never last. But almost six yearslater, there is little doubt he isfirmly in control.
Now, against long odds, Mr. Kimis on the verge of making his iso-lated, impoverished nation one ofvery few in the world that can hitthe United States with a nuclearmissile — defying not only theTrump administration but also in-ternational sanctions and NorthKorea’s traditional allies in Bei-jing.
Some have urged PresidentTrump to open negotiations withhim. But it is unclear whether Mr.Kim is interested in talking, orwhat if anything he might demandin exchange for freezing or aban-doning his nuclear program. Hehas made building a nuclear ar-senal a top priority, arguing that it
is the only way the North canguarantee its security and de-velop its economy.
His ultimate motives, like manydetails of his life, are uncertain.Since taking power, Mr. Kim has
yet to travel abroad or host a visitfrom another head of state. Only afew people outside North Koreahave been allowed to meet him,among them the former basket-ball star Dennis Rodman, a Japa-nese sushi chef and the vice presi-dents of Cuba and China.
What little is known of Mr. Kim’srecord suggests ruthlessness —and some ideological flexibility.
South Korean intelligence offi-cials say Mr. Kim has executedscores of senior officials, includ-ing his own uncle, a wily powerbroker who had been seen as hismentor. He is also assumed tohave ordered the assassination ofhis half brother, who was poisonedby VX nerve agent at the KualaLumpur International Airport inMalaysia in February.
Yet Mr. Kim is also credited withloosening state controls on theeconomy and engineering modestgrowth, and regaining some of thepublic confidence that the dynas-tic regime enjoyed under hisgrandfather and lost under his fa-ther, whose rule is rememberedfor a devastating famine.
“Smart, pragmatic, decisive,”
A Young Dictator, Once Underestimated, Is Now in Firm ControlBy CHOE SANG-HUN
Kim Jong-un was described as“smart” but “ready to kill.”
WONG MAYE-E/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Plenty of designs have been proposedto replace the much-maligned state flag,but momentum to actually change ithas always withered. PAGE A10
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pose risks that the North’sleader, Kim Jong-un, might retali-ate, setting off a spiral of escala-tion that could plunge the KoreanPeninsula into war.
“In the event of a first strikeagainst Kim, even a non-nuclearoption, it is highly likely that Kimwould retaliate at least conven-tionally against South Korea,”said James Stavridis, a retiredfour-star admiral who is nowdean of Tufts University’sFletcher School of Law and
WASHINGTON — NorthKorea’s threat on Thursday totest-fire ballistic missiles soonnear the American territory ofGuam deepened the challengeconfronting the Trump adminis-tration: how to defang Pyong-yang’s missile programs withoutrisking all-out war.
President Trump has madeclear that his goal is to denyNorth Korea the capability tofield a long-range nuclear-tippedmissile that could strike theUnited States.
And though the Pentagon stillhopes for a diplomatic solution,highly classified military optionsare at the ready, last seriouslydebated when the Clinton admin-istration pondered pre-emptiveaction to try to thwart NorthKorea’s nuclear program.
Even a limited strike against aNorth Korean missile on itslaunching pad or the shootingdown of a missile in midair would
NEWS ANALYSIS
Wrestling With North Korea,Trump Finds Perilous Options
By MICHAEL R. GORDONand ERIC SCHMITT
A South Korean soldier nearthe Korean demilitarized zone.
KIM HONG-JI/REUTERS
Continued on Page A6
Critics question the environmental andmonetary costs of creating what Gov.Scott Walker says will be up to 13,000new jobs. PAGE A15
Wisconsin’s Doubts on Foxconn
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