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Homes, homes on the range in Orange County near Orlando International Airport?
Sentinel Staff WriterThe massive Deseret Ranch -- four times larger than the city of Orlando -- is taking a key step toward its first major development. Orange County commissioners will vote Tuesday whether to push the county's boundary of urban development to take in a 4,...Tags: Charles Lee, Mormon, Seminole County, Orlando Real Estate, Florida
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Group Promotes Tech Firms
In the June 26 article "State 7th In Tech Economy Survey, But Challenges Loom" [Business section], a consultant who works with technology entrepreneurs on their marketing efforts was quoted as saying: "Yet in a state with so much going for it in terms...Tags: Small Businesses, Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc.
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Craftsman transforms doorknobs into 'bling'
928-6473Robert "Boochie" Burrest Jr. has always liked to tinker. As a child, he'd go around his neighborhood with a wagon full of tools, doing odd jobs. In high school, he'd make his own wooden shoes. As he grew older, he began customizing cars. About eight...Tags: Schools, Vehicles, History, Television, Medicine
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Young inventors find a summer home
Special to The SunAlois Langer remembers building a pretend rocket ship out of a cardboard box with his dad. And how his scientist father used to bring home old gadgets from work and let his son take them apart to figure out how they functioned. Those experiences helped...Tags: Annapolis, Schools, Langer, Elementary Schools, NASA
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Robots crash Eustis Street Fest on Friday
Robot Row will be featured from 6 to 9 p.m. July 4 during the monthly First Friday Eustis Street Fest downtown. Lake County Robotics, FIRST Team 1557 and 12 Volt Bolt will join RubeLab in displaying robots they have built. The high-school students are...Tags: Advanced Training, Kissimmee, Health and Safety at School, University of South Florida, Tampa
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In 1930s, a visionary's concept of Internet was born
By ALEX WRIGHT New York Times News Service MONS, Belgium-- On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny...Tags: Ceremonies, Society, Books and Magazines, Photography, History
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Inventor help
Inventor help Business: TechShop, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides work space for inventors, offering access to expensive equipment and a community for exploring ideas. Founder: Jim Newton, a former science advisor for the TV show "Myth Busters."...Tags: Television
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TechShop: Where do-it-yourself inventors do R&D
Special to The TimesHe works in Silicon Valley, the land of start-ups founded in garages. But a garage wouldn't suffice for what Chris Tacklind wanted to invent. He knew that crafting the inexpensive, compact laser pointer for quadriplegics he dreamed up would require...Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Texas, FedEx Corporation, Television, California
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US professor Langer wins $1.2M technology prize
Associated Press WriterAn American professor has won the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize for developing biomaterials used in combatting cancer and heart disease, the Finnish prize awarding committee said Wednesday. Robert Langer, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology...Tags: Diseases, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Heart Disease, Langer, California
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"Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel," by Julia Keller
In "Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel," Julia Keller, the Tribune's cultural critic, provides a lively and well-informed biographical study of Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903), inventor of the prototypical machine gun that made his name far more familiar...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Firearms, Theodore Roosevelt, Eli Whitney, Richard Jordan
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