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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan gave a thumbs-up to Japan’s magnetic-levitation train after taking a ride at 505 kilometers per hour. Tokyo hopes to export the pricey technology to the U.S. Photo: Getty Ima ...

Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest. In 1909, a young physics graduate student proposed building a magnetically levitated ...