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After Sandy, NYC eyes moving power gear higher
NEW YORK (AP) — A major push is on to move New York City's electrical infrastructure to higher ground or upper floors after Superstorm Sandy sent seawater pouring into low-lying substations and skyscraper basements and plunged half of Manhattan into...
Tags: Battery Park, Long Island, Petroleum Industry, U.S. Congress, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Retirement of 100-watt light bulbs causing consternation
Sight and sound play a major role in the human experience, to be sure, so it's always difficult when somebody suggests we're getting too much of either. The brightness of light bulbs and the loudness of internal combustion toys are under scrutiny, and...
Tags: Allentown Art Museum, Motorcycling, Motocross, Sports
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Friday's TV Highlights: 'American Masters' on KOCE
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 23 - 29 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Nikita: The action-drama starring Maggie Q encores its third-season premiere (8 p.m. KTLA). I Love the 1880s: The...
Tags: Russell Athletic Bowl, Maggie Q, Jonah Hill, UCLA Bruins, ABC (tv network)
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Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook interviewed by NBC's Brian Williams
It felt a bit anti-climatic after a blistering day of Apple news courtesy of Chief Executive Tim Cook, including a lengthy interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, and lots of teasers from NBC in recent days. But tonight, finally, Cook's interview with NBC'...
Tags: Apple iPhone, T-Mobile, Theft, Steve Jobs, Manhattan (New York City)
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McDonogh wrestling cruises to easy win in Raymond B. Oliver Invitational
At the Raymond B. Oliver Invitational at McDonogh this weekend, teams and wrestlers checked out the competition to get a read on how everyone looks. What everyone at the tournament confirmed is the Eagles are the team to beat this winter. McDonogh...Tags: Wrestling, Georgetown, Sprague
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'Pictures of Sound' resurrects sounds from centuries past
The stated goal of the new combination book and compact disc "Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980" is impressively brash: "It's a collection that seeks to challenge existing assumptions about what historical audio itself is,"...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln
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Two schools have a shot at grant funding in national competition
Two local elementary schools are in the lead pack of candidates for a $50,000 grant that administrators say could go a long way in improving student life and classroom learning. For a chance at winning the grant sponsored by Clorox, the schools must...
Tags: Students, Politics, Education, Elections, Teaching and Learning
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Obama slanders the 1920s to justify his failures
"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s," President Barack Obama told Mitt Romney in their final debate. Obama...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, World War I (1914-1918), Personal Income, Barack Obama, Great Depression (1929)
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Tabb girls win 4th straight 1,600-meter relay state championship
Tabb's 1,600-meter relay team made it four in a row Saturday in Harrisonburg. The foursome of Leigh Ann Soistmann, Micah Hanks, Taylor Omweg and Brittni King won the event for the fourth straight state meet, running 3:57.84 to win the race by more than...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Loudoun County, Harrisonburg (Harrisonburg, Virginia), Manufacturing and Engineering, Western Branch
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Four L.A. Unified schools to offer free flu clinics
L.A. NOWFour schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District will offer free flu vaccination clinics Tuesday for students, their families and staff, district officials announced Monday at the Edward Roybal Learning Center. Student leaders in the school... -
Stanford Ovshinsky dies at 89; inventor founded new field of electronics
Stanford Ovshinsky was not a household name like Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein, but he was often compared to them, for good reason. He invented the nickel-metal hydride battery, which has powered high-tech items such as cellphones, laptop computers...
Tags: General Electric Company, Newspaper and Magazine, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Intel Corp.
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Edison Ponograph Recording Offers Glipse Into Past
Associated PressIt's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance,...Tags: Henry Ford, General Electric Company, Arts and Culture, Museums, Entertainment
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