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New features coming to Sunday's Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is launching several new features that will augment our regional coverage and appear online and in Sunday print editions.
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Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared - study
Reuters* Seas to rise 16.5 to 69 cm with moderate warming-ice2sea * Melt of Greenland, Antarctica less severe than expected By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, May 14 (Reuters) - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Change, Antarctica, Greenland, Oceans
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Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared: study
ReutersOSLO (Reuters) - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday. Even so, such a rise could...Tags: Ban Ki-moon, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Change, Antarctica, Greenland
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German MP wary of Japanese monetary easing
The Bangkok PostGiven the baht's volatility, Thailand should cautiously manage the influx of foreign capital by taking into account Japan's aggressive monetary policy, says Jurgen Koppelin, a member of the German parliament. He said printing money is not an ideal...Tags: Foreign Exchange Market, Germany, Bangkok (Thailand), Finance, Thailand
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Cardinal George overplays his hand in bidding for free water
Change of SubjectFriday's print column One can make a case that nonprofit organizations should get free water from the city. Not a good case, mind you, but a case: It says that these institutions are often strapped for cash, so in order...... -
Federal center pays good money for suspect medicine
Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn't do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists examined whether distant prayer could heal AIDS. It could...Tags: AIDS, Trine Tsouderos, Pancreatic Cancer, Personal Service, Placebo
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Critics say new wild horse panel is pro-livestock
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A panel of experts chosen to spend two years generating the definitive study on wild horse management in the West is kicking up controversy before it even gets out of the chute. Mustang protection advocates contend the committee...Tags: Forestry and Timber, National Government, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Animal Science, The Associated Press
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Burke's idea to continue free water is all wet
Change of SubjectFriday's print column, below, is a revised and extended version of a blog posting yesterday Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, made a splash, so to speak, Wednesday when he called for allowing religious schools and houses of worship to continue getting...... -
Study: Overfertilizing corn undermines ethanol Rice University researchers find feeding crops too heavily bad for biofuel, environment
HOUSTON -- Rice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less. A paper in the online edition of the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science and Technology shows how...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Renewable Energy, Fertilizer, Ethanol, Research
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Jean-Lou Chameau: Cooking up ideas
I hope Jean-Lou Chameau gets to sleep late this morning. Friday, at his third graduation ceremony as president of Caltech, he also announced $30 million in gifts to that singular institution, where Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman worked their mighty...Tags: National Government, Colleges and Universities, Students, Teaching and Learning, Research
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Gulf oil spill: National parks, fish & wildlife directors head to gulf
GreenspaceInterior Secretary Ken Salazar on Sunday dispatched the head of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, to Mobile, Ala., and the acting head of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Rowan Gould, to Houma, La., to help with recovery efforts...... -
Filling canals to restore Barataria marshes
ABC26 NewsZipping in an airboat over a thick mat of water hyacinths floating in an old oil and gas service canal in the Barataria Preserve, David Muth pointed to wispy trees lining the banks and raised his voice to be heard above the roaring motor. "These are 90...Tags: Floods, Wetlands, Tourism and Leisure, Natural Resources, National Parks
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