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Controlling coal ash
New regulations covering the disposal of coal ash and related byproducts of coal combustion that went into effect this week in Maryland are a helpful start but only part of a solution to a serious waste disposal problem. Much more needs to be done on both...Tags: Coal, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Environmental Politics, Constellation Energy Group, Mining
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Hoffman Estates High School evacuated after chemical reaction
Hoffman Estates High School was evacuated briefly Thursday after a chemical reaction in a science department room caused a vapor cloud, officials said. "It was a sodium metal that was rinsed out. When mixed with water, it caused a little vapor cloud,"...Tags: Hoffman Estates
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Indian airports go on high alert after new attack warnings
The Associated PressAirports in India went on high alert Thursday after fresh attack warnings as officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated the deadly Mumbai attacks. The new alert that warned of possible airborne...Tags: Murder, Mumbai Terror Attacks
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Local artists need a financial bailout, too
Special to the SentinelThis is the first weekend in December, the holiday month, and there are a slew of annual holiday shows and sales. You could easily do all of your holiday shopping this weekend and also make a contribution to our cultural milieu by supporting our...Tags: Mount Dora, Winter Park, New Smyrna Beach, Building Material, Holidays
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Zoning dispute may go to court
Special to The Morning CallA Williams Township zoning dispute is likely headed to Northampton County Court after the township's Zoning Hearing Board declined to overturn a cease and desist order issued to a local contractor over the storage of concrete piles within a flood plain....Tags: Society, Building Material, Court Administration
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Judge rules for Atiyeh on former Eastern Industries site
Of The Morning CallA Lehigh County judge has ruled that Allentown's Zoning Hearing Board erred when it rejected several plans proposed by a local developer on a former industrial property that the city wants to see become a park. Judge Carol K. McGinley says Abraham Atiyeh...Tags: Lehigh County, Judges, Building Material, Allentown
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Hanukkah candles
The Associated PressHanukkah candles don't have to be ordinary. These days, you have about as many choices of colors and patterns as you do when selecting a menorah. "You could almost accessorize your candles with your menorah," says Stacey Zaleski, director of...Tags: Multi-Color Corporation, Religious Festivals, Hanukkah
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Christmas gifts for gardeners
The growing season has come to an end, but to gardeners that means only one thing: Another spring is on the way. Give the gardeners in your life a head start this holiday season with a gift that will remind them of blooms to come. Here are five of my...Tags: NASA
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Owner of Delray Beach treehouse admits he got 'carried away'
South Florida Sun-SentinelFrank McKinney's treehouse is the stuff of childhood fantasies. Think Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, from the classic Disney film: a suspension bridge, a wooden house perched atop a strangler fig, a ladder that leads 23 feet up in the air. "The little...Tags: Manalapan, Delray Beach, Cartoons, Building Material
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The week in live music
Special to the TribuneFriday: The connection between dungeons-and-dragons fantasy and heavy metal is old hat. No genre has more thoroughly embraced—or embodied—the imaginative scope associated with mythical warriors, beasts and kingdoms. Gates of Slumber pursues...Tags: Folk Music, Assault, Bob Dylan, Kristin Hersh
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Connick Jr. comin' to town
It was 1988, and this dude did this album called "20." On it was a cover of the "brain" song from "Wizard of Oz." But rather than the jaunty, happy ditty belted out by the scarecrow, this young'un, Harry Connick Jr., did a mournful version. The scarecrow,...Tags: Harry Connick Jr., Christmas, Religious Festivals
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Saving a few cents: Mexico proposes making coins smaller to keep costs down amid crisis
Associated Press WriterMEXICO CITY (AP) — Does it feel like your money is shrinking nowadays? In some countries around the world, it really is getting smaller. Mexico, following the lead of several countries around the world, has proposed making coins smaller and using...Tags: Felipe Calderon, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Metal, Central Bank, Government
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