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Forest journal: Twelve days in the jungle
Photos by Antonio PerezScreaming monkeys, falling trees, chainsaw loggers, village chiefs and a nation's president are on the docket as Tribune chief business correspondent David Greising takes to the Amazonian rainforest. -------------------- Along the Essequibo River,...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Forests, Government, Conservation, National Government
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China coal mine blast kills 15 miners; 3 rescuers die in cave-in
BEIJING (AP) _ A coal mine blast in northern China killed 15 miners and three rescuers died in a cave-in Monday morning. China's coal mines are the world's deadliest. Coal is hugely important in China, feeding two-thirds of the economy's energy demand....Tags: Coal, Mining, Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Industrial Accidents
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At Mall, A Dark Cave Of Underwear
Outside, two seniors from a local high school stand one to each side of the narrow portal. They are the official greeters, but are too busy conversing and tossing their long and thick shampooed tresses to notice or greet anyone. Those who do approach find...Tags: West Hartford, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Hugh Hefner, Gloria Steinem, Censorship
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When the skies fell, earth was their shelter
Associated PressCAEN, France — The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep, dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant patch of blue. For a month, that hole was home to Gerard...Tags: Bombings, Guerrilla Activity, Injuries, Foods and Beverages, Landforms
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Frozen In Time: Shelters Reveal WW II Nightmare
Associated PressThe memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep, dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant patch of blue. That hole was home for a month for Gerard Mangnan, his...Tags: World War II, Wars and Interventions, Adolf Hitler, Foods and Beverages, Metal and Mineral
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South Florida developers battle high water table to put parking underground
South Florida Sun-SentinelSouth Florida developers have finally found a place to hide gargantuan parking garages. They bury them. Deterred for decades by the high water table, developers from Miami to Fort Lauderdale to Boca Raton are planning to build underground, forced there...Tags: Passenger Cars, Building Material, Vehicles, Fort Lauderdale, Downtown (Miami, Florida)
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Body of 25-year-old diver found in Marion County cave
The Associated PressAuthorities said the body of a diver was found 105 feet underwater in a cave in Marion County. Sean Patrick Spiegel, 25, of Pace, had been diving with friends at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday at the Forty Fathom Grotto when the accident happened. Marion...Tags: Marion County (Florida), Landforms, Marion County (Indiana)
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high schools
Girls basketball Late Thursday WILLIAMSBURG CHRISTIAN 47, PENINSULA CATHOLIC 32 WILLIAMSBURG CHRISTIAN (1-0): Stanley 2, Perkins 2, Trimmer 14, Haislit 4, Keyser 20, Ortiz 3, Brown 2. Totals 20 6-15 47. PENINSULA CATHOLIC (0-1): Thom 6, Schober 4,...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Baptist, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Christianity, Layoffs and Downsizing
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A well-seasoned climate
757-247-4952Marcin Drygala never wondered much about the healing powers of Poland's famous salt mines until he left his native land and began living in Virginia. Three years after arriving in Williamsburg, the painting contractor developed a nagging but stubbornly...Tags: Personal Service, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Health Treatments, Metal and Mineral, Virginia
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Lava Beds National Monument: underground cave exploration
Reporting from Tulelake, Calif.The sun beat down on the basin as I inhaled one last whiff of sage-filled air before vanishing through a hole in the ground. Palms sweating against the steel handrails of a sheer vertical ladder, I dropped deeper and deeper into the cool underworld until...Tags: Volcanoes, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, California, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Hawaii
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Authorities identify remains of missing divers
The Associated PressAuthorities have identified the bodies of two men who went cave diving into a west Florida sinkhole and never returned. Yessic Cozay Spencer, a 42-year-old Marine stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, and Joseph Christian Hartranft, a 52-year-old...Tags: Diving, Landforms
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Cave yields clues to ancient dynasties in China
WASHINGTON - A stalagmite rising from the floor of a cave in China is providing clues to the end of several dynasties in Chinese history. Slowly built from the minerals in dripping water over 1,810 years, chemicals in the stone tell a tale of strong and...Tags: Landforms
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