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Global Developments
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AT&T Ready for Hurricane Earl in New Jersey
03/09/2010 07:46 (Forbes.com)
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| 09.03.10, 07:06 AM EDT ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced it stands ready for the impact of Hurricane Earl, as it passes to the east of New Jersey, with an arsenal of disaster response equipment and personnel that enable a quick response post landfall. |
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Global Politics
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Global warming heats up a nuclear energy renaissance
03/09/2010 07:53 (KCBD)
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| These nuclear power plants emit steam, not greenhouse gasses. (©iStockphoto.com/Sherwin McGehee) By Chuck McCutheon As a young engineer in the mid-1970s, Eugene Grecheck worked on plans to construct four reactors at a new nuclear power plant in central Virginia's rolling countryside – only to see two of them... |
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FDI in retail to help unorganised sector, create jobs: Sharma
03/09/2010 06:23 (Scottrade)
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| Nishikant Dwivedi Johannesburg, September 02, 2010 (PTI) - Making a strong case for FDI in India's multi-brand retail, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said that entry of global retail giants would help create millions of jobs and not weaken the unorganised sector as feared. |
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Scientific Discoveries & Breakthroughs
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Mystery Of Star's Cloud Of Water Solved
03/09/2010 08:40 (The Post Chronicle)
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| A distant dying star surrounded by water is using an unexpected ingredient -- ultraviolet starlight -- to create it, European scientists say. The European Space Agency's Herschel infrared space observatory discovered an unexpected cloud of water vapor around the ancient star IRC+10216, and researchers... |
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"Plugged In" is a daily international news brief compiled from a diversity of sources for the students, faculty, staff, and friends of the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering. The Lyle School does not necessarily endorse the views contained in these articles.
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