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Jobless benefits now last longer - so will your wait
Sentinel Staff WriterCharles Brown lost his wife to cancer and lost his job for taking time off to care for her. The 56-year-old Orlando man thought he finally had caught a break when Congress extended unemployment benefits by an additional 13 weeks, effective this month....Tags: Economic Indicator, Bankruptcy, Financially Distressed Companies, Business, Unemployment
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Iraq troop trash fuels innovation
Sun reporterWars have given us the Jeep, the computer and even the microwave. Will the war in Iraq give us the Tiger? Military scientists at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground hope so. The machine - its full name is the Tactical...Tags: Ethanol, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Armed Forces, Armed Conflicts, International Military Interventions
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Patents
Utility Patents A utility patent protects how something works and what it does. Central Florida inventors who have recently received utility patents include: Gerard McQuiggan, Orlando. Assigned to Siemens Power Generation Inc., Orlando. Gas turbine...Tags: Siemens, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, United States of America, Orlando, Lake Mary
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'For All Mankind'
Special to The Times"ONE SMALL step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong spoke those words 39 years ago today as he stepped onto the surface of the moon. He was the first human to set foot on another world. In 1961, President Kennedy had challenged the...Tags: Michael Collins, Space Programs, NASA, Petroleum Industry, John F. Kennedy
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Craftsmen of medicine
The Orange County RegisterJoints creak. Hips give out. Backaches become unendurable. Who ya gonna call? Not a superstar doctor. Instead, a reliable orthopedic expert. Orthopedic surgeons don't get the glory that goes to heart surgeons and brain surgeons, but people depend on them...Tags: Health Treatments, Health Organizations, Medicine, Injuries, Synthetics and Plastics
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The greatest invention
Dining@LargeMy husband told me over breakfast that I missed the anniversary of sliced bread yesterday. Since I struggle with slicing bread for toast every morning, he pointed out, maybe it's an invention I might want to take advantage of. Ha......Tags: Society, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Ceremonies, Sales
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'Kind of like kindergarten'
McClatchy TribuneIt's not true that you must work 80-hour weeks, trash competitors and gouge your customers to get ahead in today's dog-eat-dog business world. That's what Rich Sheridan and his fellow computer programmers and high-tech anthropologists at Menlo...Tags: Anthropology, University of Michigan, Corporate Officers, Corporations, National Government
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Mortgage-and-credit crisis results in thousands of job losses statewide
Sentinel Staff WriterFor many in Florida's financial-services industry, the mortgage-and-credit meltdown is the crisis that keeps on taking -- job after job after job. Thousands of workers statewide, including more than a thousand in Central Florida, have lost their jobs...Tags: American Home Mortgage, Employees, Health and Safety at Work, First Data Corporation, Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Innovation Way attracts parasites bent on building
Sentinel ColumnistInnovation Way is supposed to save us from a future of tearing ticket stubs, flipping condos and building homes for phantom buyers. Alas, some parasites from our old economy are lining up to feed on this planned high-tech corridor. The purveyors of more...Tags: Orange County (Florida), Rich Crotty
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Edison's estate in a new light
Cox News ServiceIn 1878, Thomas Edison invented a machine that did something the world had never seen, or heard. After Edison recited "Mary had a little lamb," the machine exactly repeated the words, astonishing observers. The phonograph, considered his most original...Tags: Henry Ford, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Homes, News Media
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