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January 02, 2013 06:58 AM UTC --
Since 1916, the U.S. Metric Association has been advocating for complete conversion to the modern metric system. Without much success, obviously.
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December 04, 2011 10:28 PM UTC --
The Berkeley Pit , an abandoned open pit copper mine in Butte, Montana, is filled with 40 billion gallons of acidic, metal-contaminated water—part of the largest Superfund site in the United States. . . .
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March 15, 2011 11:32 AM UTC --
Holy crap! A year or so ago, Philip Rosenthal, creator of 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' went to Moscow to help the Russians recreate his smash-hit sitcom with a Russian director and Russian cast. . . .
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October 23, 2010 08:35 PM UTC --
Knowing that the release of George W. Bush's memoir would remind voters of the spectacular failure of the Bush Administration and eight years of Republican rule, Crown Publishing and the powers-that-be . . .
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September 07, 2010 10:31 PM UTC --
People of WalMart: The Book went on sale today (though presambly not at WalMart), featuring 200 photos - 60 from peopleofwalmart.com , plus 140 never-before-published pics. In this interview , peopleofwalmart.com . . .
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August 18, 2010 12:37 AM UTC --
Dartmouth College grad goes to his five-year college reunion where he talks to a lot of former classmates doing great things and making a difference in the world. "I wanted to do the same thing myself, . . .
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August 08, 2010 10:11 AM UTC --
Only fifty-percent of newly-opened American companies are still around after five years. But if the business is Amish, the success rate is ninety-five percent. It seems that Amish businesses . . .
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August 01, 2010 09:29 PM UTC --
NASA and the world’s other space agencies try to avoid drawing attention to the unseemly side of space travel, but the reading public is about to learn a lot about space motion sickness, astronaut . . .
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July 11, 2010 03:39 PM UTC --
James M. Tabor, author of the new New York Times best-seller Blind Descent , has written a marvelously compelling science-adventure book, one that effectively serves as a biography of American . . .
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June 26, 2010 08:17 PM UTC --
In the new book 'Merchants of Doubt' (Bloomsbury Press), science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway relate how one small group of scientists (who founded the Marshall Institute in 1984 . . .
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June 03, 2010 08:51 AM UTC --
Lenny Kates, a retired social worker from the blue-collar town of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, got fed up with all the disrespect being shown to President Barack Obama by Tea Partiers and the right-wing . . .
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May 30, 2010 11:34 PM UTC --
In 2007 Time magazine referred to the V-22 Osprey as "A Flying Shame." But as military and aviation writer Richard Whittle relates in his new book "The Dream Machine," the history of the V-22 Osprey—a . . .
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May 23, 2010 08:00 AM UTC --
Tea Party supporters love to claim that Barack Obama -- make that Barack Hussein Obama -- is a failure, not to mention a divisive president. But ask them to specifically identify his failures . . .
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May 18, 2010 12:15 PM UTC --
Three months after the release of the hardcover edition of “Au Revoir To All That,” McDonald’s announced it would be opening a restaurant in the food court of the Louvre, a highly . . .
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May 02, 2010 01:32 AM UTC --
The medical community has failed to contain it. Drug companies aren’t developing new drugs to treat it. MRSA is the most frightening epidemic since AIDS .
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April 18, 2010 10:01 AM UTC --
When Jen Yates began posting photos of cakes-gone-wrong at cakewrecks.blogspot.com in May 2008, it was mostly for her own amusement—“an outlet for my snarky side,” she says. Within . . .
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April 16, 2010 01:00 PM UTC --
The laser vision correction industry is under fire for its failure to acknowledge potential risks. Read more: http://failuremag.com/index.php/feature/article/eye_on_lasik/#ixzz0lHdCnywG
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April 15, 2010 11:49 AM UTC --
Today in the 98th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic . And in less than two years, the MS Balmoral (operated by a cruise ship line whose parent company built Titanic) will set sail on the Titanic . . .
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April 26, 2009 10:17 PM UTC --
Before Kevin Roose enrolled at the world's largest evangelical university he didn't know any evangelical Christians, save for one. He didn't even really know God. But that didn't stop . . .
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April 13, 2009 01:21 PM UTC --
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_12130901
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