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Willing To Help Others, Even When Cancer Called
SPECIAL TO THE COURANT"Extraordinary Life" looks back each Sunday on someone whose life made a difference. Bobb Brooks didn't take long to settle into a community and start to make a difference. He willingly shared his skills with anyone who could use them. He grew up in...Tags: Natural Science, Heavy Engineering, Armed Forces, Music, Tommy Dorsey
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Clay is widespread on Mars
Sun reporterA satellite orbiting Mars has found widespread deposits of clay - mineralogical evidence that very early in its history, the red planet was a watery place with broad lakes and flowing rivers. While the findings provide no direct evidence that life ever...Tags: Natural Science, Johns Hopkins University, Arkansas, Colleges and Universities, Space Programs
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For Geology Bluffs, This Area Is For You
For those interested in how the state was created geologically, Campbell's Peaceful Valley Conservation Area in Tolland is the place to visit. The 85-acre property is located on Hunter Road and features a dramatic ridge line and outcrops that provide...Tags: Natural Science, Natural Resources, Rivers, Hunting, Tolland (Tolland, Connecticut)
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Deaths elsewhere
HAYWARD 'CHUCK' CARBO, 82 Baritone for Spiders quintet Hayward "Chuck" Carbo, whose ultra-smooth baritone fronted the 1950s quintet the Spiders that made the world aware of New Orleans rhythm & blues, has died. Charbonnet-Labat Funeral Home said he...Tags: Corporate Officers, Venice, Natural Science, Natural Resources, Heads of State
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What would Captain Planet wear?
Clinton: Finding perfect balance in my wardrobe is very frustrating. I'm finishing up my last year of college. I'd like to look a little older and more put together without having to wear a suit every day. My degree is in hydrogeology (has to do with...Tags: Natural Science, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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A desert hike through Joshua Tree with high tech
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJoshua Tree National Park "Whoso walketh in solitude, and inhabiteth the wood . . . into that forester shall pass . . . power and grace." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson But what if I snap my ankle? Or blow a cardiac gasket? Or fall or get stuck on a mountain...Tags: Natural Science, Vehicles, Garmin Ltd., Jack Johnson, Back Packs
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Illinois school shooting leaves 6 dead, 16 wounded
Chicago TribuneA former graduate student armed with a shotgun and two handguns opened fire Thursday afternoon in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, killing five students and wounding 16 others before shooting himself to death, authorities said....Tags: Natural Science, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Illinois, Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School
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Gun dealer wants weapons on campus
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOnline gun dealer Eric Thompson can't recall exactly what he was doing when he learned that one of his customers had just killed five students in a college geology class. He knows what flashed through his mind, though: Not again. Ten months earlier,...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Natural Science, Northern Illinois University, Weaponry, Law Enforcement
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Tragedy, time and again
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLITTLETON, COLO. -- I cried a long time on my hotel bed that night, thinking about their faces. So many children -- 14, 15, 16 years old -- drawn tight with grief and exhaustion. It was Tuesday, April 20, 1999, and two boys had just killed 12...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Natural Science, Northern Illinois University, Mental Illness, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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Trapped in the Creation Museum
Stephen T. Asma is a philosophy professor at Columbia College Chicago and the author of "Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums" (Oxford University Press) Into the swampy debate over evolution has waded...Tags: Natural Science, Christianity, Movies, Indiana, Protestant
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The wandering rocks of Death Valley
National GeographicDeath Valley National Park is the only place on Earth where geology has made me laugh out loud. I am thinking specifically of an area in the northwest section of Death Valley called the Racetrack, where, inexplicably, rocks as big as microwave ovens go...Tags: Natural Science
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Emissions fix may lie beneath us
Tribune staff reportersThird in a series LATROBE VALLEY, Australia — Beneath the rolling green hills of Australia's Latrobe Valley lies a deposit of brown coal so enormous it seems almost endless. After nearly a century of mining, more than 95 percent of the 35-mile-long, 600-...Tags: Natural Science, Vehicles, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Coal, Beverage Industry
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