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BLASTING OFF: After years of autism challenges, Nick Johnson lands NASA gig
tkleffman@amnews.comNicholas Johnson has never been one for crowds. When he was younger, a trip to a restaurant or retail store often would send Nick into loud shrieks and convulsive movements. Once, during a trip to the grocery store when he was about 8, he began rocking...Tags: Gaming, Schools, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Leisure, Science
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ITM '73: Hereabouts
Here’s a regularly occurring “Hereabouts” column from April 19, 1973, by Robert T. Baughman. “Hereabouts” rounded up tidbits of opinion and conversations from around Lincoln County and turned it all into an enjoyable...
Tags: Food Industry, Politics, Elections, Easter, Regional Elections
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From Our Files for Feb. 17
100 YEARS AGO 1913 Two ladies came to Danville this week from Indiana and had the body of the man who was recently found dead on the Cincinnati Southern Railway exhumed. One of the ladies had lost her husband and reached the conclusion that the man...
Tags: United Nations, Crime, Law and Justice, Space Programs, Arts and Culture, Science
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Fiery meteor explodes over Russia; 1,100 injured
Associated PressMOSCOW (AP) - With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains region Friday and exploded with the force of an atomic bomb, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread...Tags: Domodedovo Airport Bombing (2011), News Agency, Russia, Politics, Moscow (Russia)
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New signs of growth bode well for Garrard County economy
smojica@amnews.comLANCASTER — About 8 percent of Garrard County residents currently are unemployed, a dramatic drop from the nearly 13 percent unemployment rate reported to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in February 2010. Such statistics represent people using...Tags: Unemployment, Iraq, Science and Technology, Unemployment Benefits, Economic Policy
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McGuffey sixth-grader gets once-in-a-lifetime chance to talk with astronaut on International Space Station
ben@theinteriorjournal.comRICHMOND — "Out of all the skills you have obtained in training, which has assisted you the most in your adventures and how do you use these specific skills?" As those words were spoken by Lincoln County sixth-grade student Kyle Hampton on Friday,...Tags: Space Programs, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Eastern Kentucky University, Education
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Garrard's EDP director Mick accepts position at New York-based company
kpeek@amnews.comLANCASTER — Nathan Mick, economic development director for Garrard County, is taking the vice-president position at a technology-based, international economic development company in New York. While serving as economic development director, a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Business, Judges, Unemployment Benefits, Economic Policy
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Local students to attend NASA Space Station event at EKU
Students from Boyle, Casey and Lincoln counties will be among 160 seventh- and eighth-graders from across Kentucky, all identified as gifted and talented in science and/or mathematics, who will have the opportunity to participated in a NASA space program...
Tags: Space Programs, Teaching and Learning, Satellite Technology, Science, Eastern Kentucky University
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Red Shoe Report: Baby room just needs the kid
They say it takes a village to raise in a child. When it comes to my child, I need a village just to get her nursery in place. That was last weekend’s project, and I’m pleased to report that, with a few minor exceptions, it really is done. I&...
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Dreaming and reading about Mars
Clark County Public LibraryThe title of this article is taken verbatim from a story by Thomas Elway in the May, 1930 edition of Popular Science magazine. (Here’s the web address if you’d like to look it up: http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=OigDAAAAMBAJ&pg=56) In...Tags: Arts and Culture, Satellite Technology, Astronomy, Science and Technology, Fiction
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Neil Armstrong, 1st man on the moon, dies at 82
Associated PressCINCINNATI (AP) - Neil Armstrong was a soft-spoken engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. The modest man, who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost...Tags: The Associated Press, Petroleum Industry, Entertainment Events, Chappaquiddick Island, Russia
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County calendar for July 19
THURSDAY — The Jessamine County Public Library will host Lunch and Learn: Social Networking for book lovers from noon to 1 p.m. — The Jessamine County Public Library will host a virtual field trip: Animal Adventures from 2-3 p.m. FRIDAY...
Tags: Animal, Christianity, Baptist, Entertainment, Ceremonies
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