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Reluctance to redo levees gets rise out of farmers
Chicago Tribune reporterAs he looks out over his still-submerged family farm, Russell Torrance knows that it was just a few inches on a rising Mississippi River that made the difference between staying bone dry and being consumed by a massive flood. And it is the devastation...Tags: Burlington, Armed Forces, Torrance, Defense, Farms
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School news
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation has selected five area high school students to participate in a leadership summit in Washington, D.C., July 13-18, as part of its national Neighborhood Excellence Initiative. Locally, Catrina Berry, graduating...Tags: Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Technology, Clubs and Associations, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Peninsula Metropolitan YMCA
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HOPE homes plan studied
Of The Morning CallWhen the Easton Housing Authority first presented a sketch in March of its HOPE VI housing plans to the city's Planning Commission, it was met with skepticism. Almost four months later, on Wednesday night, officials and residents said the preliminary...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy
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Traffic is focus of Wal-Mart hearing
Special to The Morning CallThe fourth and final hearing on Wal-Mart's proposal to erect a planned commercial development in North Whitehall Township concluded Wednesday after testimony about potential traffic problems. Transportation planner Douglas Plank from the ELA Group of...Tags: Whitehall, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), Transportation, Schnecksville
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Jaime Hayón's Showtime furniture and ceramics
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWith a nod, and a wink, to his countrymen Salvador Dalí and architect Antoni Gaudí, Barcelona-based Jaime Hayón is putting Spain on the international design map. Equal parts artist and industrial designer, the 34-year-old who is often photographed in...Tags: Building Material, Furniture, Material Science, Metal and Mineral
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Plastic Debris Crowds Fish In Pacific
On the first of June, two men set sail from the port of Long Beach, Calif., bound for Hawaii, on a raft made of junk. Their cabin is the cockpit of a Cessna 310, white with a blue racing stripe, salvaged from the desert. It floats on a system of...Tags: Beach Vacations, Long Beach (California), Charles Moore, Material Science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Can Mercedes Become Fossil-Fuel Free in Just 7 Years? Probably Not
KickingTiresBritish paper The Sun reported that a top engineer for Mercedes-Benz said the company could ditch petroleum-fuel vehicles entirely by the year 2015. The headline is a bit misleading because the engineer, Herbert Kohler, actually said that he saw...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Natural Resources, Vehicles, Fuel-efficient Cars, Energy Resources
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Carl S. Weinberger
Carl S. Weinberger, a retired mechanical engineer, died of heart failure Saturday at his Timonium home. He was 77. Mr. Weinberger was born in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton. He was a 1948 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and earned a degree in...Tags: Anglican, Death and Dying, Ellicott City, Christianity, Hamilton
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Mission aims to restore Hubble
Sun reporterIn about two weeks, some 24,000 pounds of what may be the most thoroughly tested and closely inspected hardware on Earth will be packed into custom crates, mounted on flatbed trucks and shipped as "wide load" cargo to Cape Canaveral, Fla. When it...Tags: Cape Canaveral, NASA, Space Programs, IMAX, Hospitals and Clinics
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Engineering firm to move into downtown Syracuse
New York will invest $3 million to help a national engineering firm relocate its corporate headquarters to downtown Syracuse. Gov. David Paterson announced the state aid during a stop in Syracuse Wednesday. The state is providing $1 million in grants...Tags: David A. Paterson, Technology
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