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John D. Silva dies at 92; introduced news helicopter
John D. Silva was the chief engineer for KTLA-TV in 1958 when he outfitted a helicopter with a TV camera and changed television news coverage forever. He turned a rented Bell helicopter into the Telecopter, essentially a flying TV studio. The first of...
Tags: Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering, Lawrence Welk, Electrical Appliance, Science and Technology
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Republicans' infrastructure hypocrisy
If you want to see where rank hypocrisy sits in full flower, you have only to observe Republicans at their desks in the House and Senate. There, they have been openly ridiculing President Barack Obama's proposed $50 billion stimulus bill for desperately...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Afghanistan, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Chan Lowe: The iPad phenomenon
There is a whole field of study focused upon the relationship between people and the products they own. I took a course in it at Stanford University, which was offered—of all places—by the engineering department. Stanford was one of...
Tags: Engineering, Apple iPad, Science and Technology, Technology
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Today the nation honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work are the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Langston Hughes, Human Interest, Justice and Rights, Martin Luther King Jr.
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A simpler, fairer way to fund California's schools
Driving along Pacific Coast Highway, you can see the successive layers of earth and rock that have piled up over millions of years to create California's coastal landscape. You can see a similar but less attractive phenomenon if you look at the way...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Dental Health, Politics, Jerry Brown, University of California, Berkeley
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Lipinski mentioned as next Vatican envoy
As President Barack Obama tries to avoid fallout from his Cabinet and national security nominations, one potentially controversial post remains vacant. Amid tension with America's Roman Catholic leaders about a health care mandate that requires religious...
Tags: Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health and Safety at Work, Mitt Romney
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W.Va. briefs
Free mulch offered to residents of Berkeley Co. MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The Berkeley County Solid Waste Authority is offering free mulch to Berkeley County residents during the holiday season. Clint Hogbin, an official with the Berkeley County...Tags: Education, University of Texas at Austin, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Schools, Colleges and Universities
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Central Florida Political Pulse biographies
David Damron writes: "Born and raised in the northeast, I moved south to finish college and graduated from the University of Florida in 1995. After covering schools, social services and governemnt in Lake County, I headed to Orlando to cover the Florida...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Orlando, Columbia University, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Florida Legislature
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Human -- for better or worse
Are people, by nature, kind or rotten? This question has kept philosophers, theologians, social scientists and writers busy for millenniums. A vote for our basic rottenness comes from scholars such as Steven Pinker of Harvard, who has documented how...
Tags: Philosophy, Education, Culture, Science, New York University
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Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon heading to Harvard
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon will head to Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., after his six-year term ends Saturday. He will be a teaching and research fellow in 2013, the university and the president's office said in statements Wednesday....
Tags: Education, Felipe Calderon, University of Texas at Austin, Mexico, Colleges and Universities
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Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids: report
Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities since Congress passed landmark legislation on their behalf in 1990. And yet advocates say barriers and bias still abound when it comes to one basic human right: To be...
Tags: Interior Policy, Physical Disabilities, Discrimination, Civil Laws, Justice and Rights
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Audi takes on Google with permit to test self-driving car in Nevada
Although Google has a leg up on automakers in the development of self-driving cars, it is becoming clear that the car companies don’t plan to cede this technology to the tech giant. Audi said Monday that Nevada granted the German car brand a...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Disasters and Accidents, Continental Corporation, Media Industry, Science and Technology
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