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from The Atlantic
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from LiveScience
DNA Directly Photographed for First Time
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from Mother Nature Network
16 clever uses for binder clips
There's less paper in need of binding these days, so put this simple contraption to work with these clever applications.
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
How Big is Uranus?
The seventh planet from the sun, Uranus is the smallest of the gas giants. The blue body contains an icy atmosphere that, like Neptune, differs dramatically from the other large planets.
How Was Uranus Formed?
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from The Spokesman-Review
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| Aug. 24, 1905: The new Masonic Temple on Riverside Avenue is formally opened by the Masons. The celebration began when the Masons gathered at their former home on the cornerof Lincoln and Sprague and marched into the new temple. |
Left: April 1911: President Theodore Roosevelt visits the Masonic Temple a year before his failed third presidential campaign. While in Spokane, Roosevelt also laid the cornerstones for the new Lewis and Clark High School and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club.
Pressuring GOP, Obama takes his fiscal plan to Pa.
Mortgage deduction could fall in budget talks
Lawmakers driven by need to find revenue
Sandy blew hole in NE economy
No estimate on reopening Liberty Island; statue OK
2012 hurricane season another for the record books
Study documents accelerating ice loss
Says the melting is major factor in rising sea levels
Vestal: Making government better – what a concept!
Lawmakers to consider hunting-gun silencers
Panel suggests ending ban in Wyoming
Gay marriage before Supreme Court? Cases weighed
Ban on gay change therapy faces first legal test
Search still on for treating hog-waste odor, pollution
Youngsters can forget sandlot
Many witness steady upping of ante in youth sports
Calif oyster farm closure ends long battle
Study: Like a tree, growth rings show lobster ageLawmakers driven by need to find revenue
Sandy blew hole in NE economy
No estimate on reopening Liberty Island; statue OK
2012 hurricane season another for the record books
Statehood hopes rise
US seeks way forward after Palestinian win at UN
65 years later, another U.N. vote celebrated
US seeks way forward after Palestinian win at UN
65 years later, another U.N. vote celebrated
Egypt Islamists hurriedly approve new constitution
Internet, phone service disabled amid Syrian civil war
Beirut – Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was closed by heavy fighting in the country’s civil war.
Activists said President Bashar Assad’s regime pulled the plug on the Internet, perhaps in preparation for a major offensive. Cellphone service also went out in Damascus and parts of central Syria, they said. The government blamed rebel fighters for the outages.
With pressure building against the regime on several fronts and government forces on their heels in the battle for the northern commercial hub of Aleppo, rebels have recently begun pushing back into Damascus after largely being driven out of the capital following a July offensive. One Damascus resident reported seeing rebel forces near a suburb of the city previously deemed to be safe from fighting.
The Internet outage, confirmed by two U.S.-based companies that monitor online connectivity, is unprecedented in Syria’s 20-month-old uprising against Assad, which activists say has killed more than 40,000 people.
Mexican environmentalist, son killed by traffickers
Mexico City – An environmental activist who attempted to protect Mexican forests from drug traffickers has been slain along with her 10-year-old son, even though they were under police protection, her associates said Thursday.
Juventina Villa Mojica was killed Wednesday when about 30 gunmen intercepted her police convoy in the mineral-rich hills of southern Guerrero state, colleagues said. Her son, Rey, was also killed, and a 7-year-old daughter survived, the associates said.
Her death follows the recent slayings of at least 15 other local activists, including Villa’s husband last year, in increasingly violent Guerrero. Drug traffickers in the state covet the many virgin forests both for the profitable lumber they yield and the space to plant marijuana and other crops that can be used to produce narcotics.
San Diego OKs deal for desalinated water
SAN DIEGO – San Diego’s regional water agency has approved a contract to buy the entire output of what would be the Western Hemisphere’s largest seawater desalination plant.
The San Diego County Water Authority voted on the 30-year contract Thursday. Poseidon Resources LLC needed the deal to finance construction of the $984 million project.
The plant in Carlsbad is designed to produce 50 million gallons of highly purified drinking water a day, enough to supply about 8 percent of the region in 2020.
The water would be more than twice as expensive as San Diego’s imported supplies but backers said it would be well worth the premium to protect against drought.
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In brief: From Wire Reports
Beirut – Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was closed by heavy fighting in the country’s civil war.
Activists said President Bashar Assad’s regime pulled the plug on the Internet, perhaps in preparation for a major offensive. Cellphone service also went out in Damascus and parts of central Syria, they said. The government blamed rebel fighters for the outages.
With pressure building against the regime on several fronts and government forces on their heels in the battle for the northern commercial hub of Aleppo, rebels have recently begun pushing back into Damascus after largely being driven out of the capital following a July offensive. One Damascus resident reported seeing rebel forces near a suburb of the city previously deemed to be safe from fighting.
The Internet outage, confirmed by two U.S.-based companies that monitor online connectivity, is unprecedented in Syria’s 20-month-old uprising against Assad, which activists say has killed more than 40,000 people.
Mexican environmentalist, son killed by traffickers
Mexico City – An environmental activist who attempted to protect Mexican forests from drug traffickers has been slain along with her 10-year-old son, even though they were under police protection, her associates said Thursday.
Juventina Villa Mojica was killed Wednesday when about 30 gunmen intercepted her police convoy in the mineral-rich hills of southern Guerrero state, colleagues said. Her son, Rey, was also killed, and a 7-year-old daughter survived, the associates said.
Her death follows the recent slayings of at least 15 other local activists, including Villa’s husband last year, in increasingly violent Guerrero. Drug traffickers in the state covet the many virgin forests both for the profitable lumber they yield and the space to plant marijuana and other crops that can be used to produce narcotics.
San Diego OKs deal for desalinated water
SAN DIEGO – San Diego’s regional water agency has approved a contract to buy the entire output of what would be the Western Hemisphere’s largest seawater desalination plant.
The San Diego County Water Authority voted on the 30-year contract Thursday. Poseidon Resources LLC needed the deal to finance construction of the $984 million project.
The plant in Carlsbad is designed to produce 50 million gallons of highly purified drinking water a day, enough to supply about 8 percent of the region in 2020.
The water would be more than twice as expensive as San Diego’s imported supplies but backers said it would be well worth the premium to protect against drought.
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Says the melting is major factor in rising sea levels
Vestal: Making government better – what a concept!
Lawmakers to consider hunting-gun silencers
Panel suggests ending ban in Wyoming
Gay marriage before Supreme Court? Cases weighed
Ban on gay change therapy faces first legal test
Search still on for treating hog-waste odor, pollution
Many witness steady upping of ante in youth sports
Calif oyster farm closure ends long battle
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from The Wenatchee World
Entiat grad leads Lind-Ritzville/Sprague to 2B title game
Guardsmen re-up to avoid being job-market casualties
Trapped between unemployment and redeployment
Study documents accelerating ice loss in Antarctica, Greenland
Final chapter: Your own obituary
Ultimate in self-publishing — telling your own life story
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