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Ulman moves to speed up project review process
Because development is big business in Howard County and generates tax revenue, elected officials pay attention when the industry is hurting. After complaints from builders about how long it takes to get projects through the county review process, County...Tags: Ellicott City, State Budgets, Laws, Roscoe G Bartlett, Conservation
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No One Injured In Chester Plane Crash; New Skate Park Opens
Plane crashes in Chester. Skate Park Opens in Cromwell. Guilford Land Trust Acquires 141 Acres. Here are a few of the Middlesex County and Shoreline area stories written by Courant staff reporters over the last week. AREAWIDE ΔPoll Shows Jim Himes...Tags: Connecticut River, Personal Income, East Haddam, Health and Safety at Work, Natural Resources
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Deerfield solicits bids for Cove project
South Florida Sun-SentinelIhler Planning Group has presented Deerfield Beach officials with a plan to reinvent an aging shopping center. The plan satisfied nearby residents, the merchants who own the stores and city planners, but when the Palm Beach Gardens company asked for a...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Palm Beach Gardens, Road Transportation, Key West, Deerfield
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NASA presses ahead for launch next year of big Mars rover with rock-zapping laser
AP Science WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) _ NASA said Friday it will press ahead with plans to launch a supersized rover to Mars next year despite spiraling costs and schedule pressures. The decision to maintain the status quo — at least for now — came after the...Tags: NASA, Space Programs
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Higher ethanol blends are on federal agenda
Consumer ReportsThe latest federal energy act, passed last December, requires more ethanol to be produced than the United States could consume even if all cars on the road used E10 (a 10-percent ethanol blend sold in most urban areas), and the six-million or so flexible-... -
The $700 billion man with an engineer's mind
The Washington PostMany of the complicated securities at the center of the subprime mortgage crisis were designed by mathematicians and physicists, and now the U.S. government has tapped an aerospace engineer who used to design NASA satellites to start unraveling them....Tags: Financial and Business Services, Government, NASA, Henry Paulson, Ohio
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Study: Chemical in plastics affects cancer treatments
Bisphenol A, the chemical in plastics linked to heart disease, diabetes and stunted growth, may also interfere with cancer treatments, a study supported by the U.S. government has found. Chemotherapy agents were less effective against human breast-...Tags: American Medical Association, Health Organizations, Eastman Chemical Company, Metal and Mineral, Material Science
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Donor boosts bioengineering
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. A business-school alumnus has given Harvard University its largest individual donation ever: $125 million to start a bioengineering institute. The mission of the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is to discover...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Biotechnology, Technology
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Berry Plastics expanding Baltimore operations
Berry Plastics Corp., a maker of plastic packaging products and one of the city's biggest manufacturers, is expanding to a warehouse in Chesapeake Commerce Center in Southeast Baltimore. Berry Plastics, based in Evansville, Ind., signed a lease with...Tags: Duke Realty Corporation, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Material Science
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Massachusetts: $125 million gift to Harvard
Wire reportsA Harvard Business School alumnus has given the university its largest individual donation ever — $125 million to start a bioengineering institute, the school announced Tuesday. Hansjorg Wyss, an engineer and entrepreneur who earned an MBA from...Tags: Massachusetts, Schools, Technology
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Researchers will study energy efficiency at new UCF center
Special to the SentinelSiemens Energy Center, a new research facility for the study of energy efficiency, was dedicated Wednesday morning on UCF's main campus. UCF President John Hitt, Neal Gallagher, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, and Randy Zwirn,...Tags: Government, Conservation, Siemens, Corporate Officers, Technology
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Long Beach residents review plans to modify breakwater
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe 55 Long Beach residents who gathered to pore over city maps weren't engineers or oceanographers, but they had plenty of questions -- and plenty to say -- about a proposal that would radically change beach life in their city. The proposal calls for...Tags: San Pedro, Glendale, California, Environmental Pollution, Los Angeles
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