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Europe attempts to thwart recession
BloombergEuropean leaders agreed to guarantee new bank refinancing and use government money to prevent lenders from going under, trying to stop the worst rout in Europe's stock markets in two decades and stave off a recession. At a summit chaired by French...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Central Bank, European Union, Federal Reserve, Angela Merkel
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Smuggling by tunnel turns legitimate in Gaza Strip
Associated PressGaza's smugglers are going legit: Owners of the scores of tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border have registered with the Hamas authorities, pledged to pay workers' compensation and hooked up their operations to the electricity network. The once...Tags: Terrorism, Organized Crime, Employees, Metal and Mineral, Health and Safety at Work
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Philadelphia landmark regains its luster
The Associated PressMemorial Hall, one of the jewels of the Centennial Exposition of 1876, had lost its luster many years ago. Rain poured inside through this magnificent but neglected glass dome, soaking elaborate plasterwork and pooling on its marble floors, where buckets...Tags: Society, Libraries and Museums, Government, National Government, Ceremonies
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Decades later, lead still lingers at Island Trees school
eden.laikin@newsday.comThe ongoing saga in Levittown about lead contamination at the former rifle range at Island Trees High School began down the road in another district where the problem was almost identical, but the resolution dramatically different. In 1999, Lynbrook...Tags: Environmental Politics, Censorship, Defense, Health and Safety at Work, Health and Safety at School
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Getting concrete results
Richmond Times-DispatchThe economy may have slowed, but a plant in Dinwiddie County that turns out at least 40 pieces of 45,000-pound precast concrete a day, mostly for parking decks, is expanding. Tindall Corp. is investing $12 million in an expansion that is expected to add...Tags: Federal Reserve, Plant Openings, Employees, Prisons, Marketing
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Builders Sell Energy Self-Sufficiency
Special To The CourantOnce, the formula for constructing houses was simple for Ron Gaudet and his father: Find and clear a lot, set the foundation and framing, put on a roof — and presto, they were well on their way to completing a new house. Inside, plumbing and...Tags: Energy Saving, International Business Machines Corporation, Farms, Water, Plant Openings
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Discoveries
Nature's Beloved Son
Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy
Bonnie J. Gisel with images by Stephen J. Joseph
Heyday Books: 248 pp., $45
SCOTLAND, Wisconsin, Canada, Kentucky, Florida, Alaska and the Sierra Nevada; wherever he went, John Muir,...Tags: Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Folk Music, John Muir, Sociology
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Mixed-use Ravenswood building opens up a new apartment avenue
Special to the Chicago TribuneRepurposing can save functional and well-constructed properties from the wrecking ball. A building at 4500 N. Winchester Ave. in Ravenswood is a case in point. Designed in 1968 as a residence for nurses working at the Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center,...Tags: Paul Klee, Montrose, Transportation, Physical Fitness, Hospitals and Clinics
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Much-altered Colonial still subject to change
In the winter of 2003, Kirk Bauer bought an old mill house in Howard County's historic Ellicott City. His intention was to rehab the property (as he had done with four other houses) and then sell it. The work went smoothly until April 2005. "At that...Tags: Land Price, Williamsburg, Ellicott City, Catonsville, Metal and Mineral
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Will a 'good Samaritan' be good again?
Sentinel ColumnistDear Greg: We had some minor water damage from a second-story window leaking during Tropical Storm Fay in August. We contacted William Benjamin, who advertises as a "licensed" handyman, and asked for an estimate to caulk the window. He did his inspection...Tags: Charity, House and Home, Tropical Storms, Mount Dora, Kim Basinger
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Hudson rail bridge will be high-altitude walkway
Associated Press WriterThe Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge was a high-spanned marvel in its day, carrying everything from coal to trolley riders over the Hudson River. Then a fire in 1974 reduced the bridge to an Industrial-Age eyesore looming over the city. Locals talked...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Transportation, Tourism and Leisure, Railway Transportation, Heavy Engineering
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