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Globalization in retreat
WASHINGTON -- One fateful question for 2013 is this: What happens to globalization? For decades, growing volumes of cross-border trade and money flows have fueled strong economic growth. But something remarkable is happening; trade and international money...
Tags: Finance, Federal Reserve, Emerging Market, Manufacturing and Engineering, Japan
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CES 2013: Sharing content from phone to TV to kitchen and beyond
I love the idea of a smart home, one where devices talk to one another and to me (figuratively speaking) in order to offer more and better services. Judging from the demonstrations at this week's Consumer Electronics Show, it's still a work in progress,...
Tags: Sony Corp., Manufacturing and Engineering, Recipes, Consumer Goods Industries, Food Industry
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Company zaps bread to keep it mold-free
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Attention, bread shoppers: A Texas company could have the answer to some consumers’ unwelcome discovery that just-purchased loaves contain mold. MicroZap Inc. claims its technology allows bread to stay mold-free for 60 days. The...Tags: Natural Resources Defense Council, Education, Manufacturing and Engineering, Consumers, Health and Safety at School
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John D. Silva dies at 92; introduced news helicopter
John D. Silva was the chief engineer for KTLA-TV in 1958 when he outfitted a helicopter with a TV camera and changed television news coverage forever. He turned a rented Bell helicopter into the Telecopter, essentially a flying TV studio. The first of...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Santa Barbara County Fires (2008), Technology, Stanford University, Physiology
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Exorcising phantom power
You're responsible about conserving energy. You turn off the television when you're not watching it and the lights when you leave a room. But don't feel too smug. Your home electronics may be working against your green instincts. Many of today's...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Consumers, Energy Saving, Environmental Issues, University of California, Berkeley
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Caltech student wins $25K grant for 'green' refrigerator
The prototype for a solar-powered refrigerator that could ease the burdens of farmers from Pasadena to Punjab has earned a $25,000 grant for a Caltech aeronautics student and his colleagues. Three years ago, Prakhar Mehrotra was on a foreign exchange...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Dow Chemical Co., India, Google Inc.
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NASA ready for GRAIL spacecraft to crash into moon
In a series of planned maneuvers, NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft, nicknamed Ebb and Flow, will crash into a crater rim near the moon's North Pole about 2:28 p.m. Pacific time on Monday. At a news conference on Thursday, scientists involved with the...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Space Programs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Manufacturing and Engineering, Science
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7 ways to fix time-wasting, annoying hassles at home
Special to Tribune NewspapersEvery home has a few bottlenecks where things could run more smoothly. Some become an annoying or time-wasting hassle; others can cause maintenance and repair problems. We're talking omissions, not mistakes. Here are seven problem solvers that are not...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Shingles, Building Material, Standards, Energy Saving
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Recall Alert: 2012 Chevrolet Sonic
KickingTiresGM is recalling 44,668 model-year 2012 versions of the Chevrolet Sonic compact car because of a faulty windshield-wiper washer hose, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The affected vehicles were manufactured from May 5, 2011,...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Chevrolet, Automotive Equipment, Rubber Products Industry
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Where do old refrigerators go to die?
The decline of my 10-year-old refrigerator started with an unsettling wheezing sound and ended with a death rattle that would have cost $500 to fix. So I, like 10 million other Americans each year, dropped money on a new fridge and had the broken one...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Southern California Edison Company, Sears, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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From the harvest: pickled okra
Okra isn't the first (or seventh) vegetable most people think to buy when they go to the farmers' market. Known primarily for its use in heavy Southern dishes and infamously for its ability to become slimy because of its natural mucilage, okra isn't...
Tags: Mustard, Pickles, Manufacturing and Engineering, Garlic, Salt
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Area residents deal with flooding, power outages after storms
davem@herald-mail.com; caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comThunderstorms rolled through Washington County again Tuesday afternoon and evening, leading to residential flooding in the Claggett’s Mill area off Poffenberger Road south of Hagerstown and causing a vehicle to get stuck in water on Cool Hollow...Tags: Weather, Manufacturing and Engineering, Weather Reports, Weather Warnings, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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