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Building-integrated wind turbine is the most “in thing” in the field of wind power these days. Electricity is being produced right where it is needed, eliminating the transmission problem. Putting wind turbines on top of buildings — especially..
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A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding _ after police say he was...
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The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
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AP, New York
Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.
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AP, Washington
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will provide Congress with a fresh assessment of the country’s fragile economic health that probably will note some recent...
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Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or...
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One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry...
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AP, Revere
City councilors just outside Boston say police should be better prepared for large crowds descending on a local beach after thousands of students skipped school and...
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AP, San Diego
A deputy assistant secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton has been sentenced in San Diego to more than three years in federal prison for possessing child...
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The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort’s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the...
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Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.
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AP, Los Angeles
A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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AP, Pittsburgh
The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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AP, Washington
Israel’s prime minister on Monday outlined a “triple track” approach to peace with the Palestinians, a strategy that emphasizes political, economic...
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AP, Chicago
In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their...
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AP, Pomona
Two teenagers have denied in court they planned to bring guns to their California high school and randomly shoot fellow students.
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AP, Chicago
Federal officials say a civilian project engineer has been charged with squeezing an Army Corps of Engineers contractor for a bribe in connection with a $2.5 million...
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Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal...
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The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
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Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.
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A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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A new paper recycling and conservation paper law has been adopted by the state of Washington. On 6th May, 2009, Washington state Governor Chris...
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Part of a vacant five-story building that had recently been cited for loose bricks and cracks collapsed in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, leaving mounds of rubble...
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A five-story building collapsed at a lower Manhattan construction site on Thursday, but fire officials said it appeared no one was inside.
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AP, New York
A 5-story building has collapsed at a lower Manhattan construction site, but New York City fire officials say it appears no one was inside.
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AP, New York
The New York City Fire Department says a building in lower Manhattan has collapsed.
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AP, Kampala
Police say a building has collapsed in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, killing at least five people. Dozens are trapped under the rubble.
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The New York Times Co. has sold most of its home office for $225 million, padding the newspaper publisher’s financial cushion amid a sharp drop in revenue that...
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The New York Times Co. has sold 21 floors of its headquarters building near New York’s Times Square.
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AP, Cologne
Cologne’s six-story city archive building rumbled and then collapsed into a pile of rubble Tuesday. Many people inside were able to flee to safety, but rescue...
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AP, Cologne
The building that houses the Cologne city archives collapsed on Tuesday and officials said they feared that people could be trapped inside.
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AP, Boston
The economic crisis has forced Harvard University to consider pausing a planned expansion in Boston.
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AP, Indianapolis
It’s 7 a.m. in Indianapolis and the city’s residents are clearing their bleary eyes and snow-covered driveways.
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AP, New York
An Italian real estate investor has bought a majority stake in the triangular landmark Flatiron Building and plans to turn it into a luxury hotel.
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AP, Washington
Washington fire officials say the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House was evacuated briefly after smoke from a fireplace clouded one of the...
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AP, Barcelona
Part of a sports center collapsed in high winds Saturday in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, killing four children and injuring 16 other people, officials and...
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Part of a sports center collapsed in high winds Saturday in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, killing three children and injuring 16 others, witnesses said.
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AP, Madrid
Spanish officials say part of a sports center collapsed in high winds, killing at least three children and trapping and injuring others in the northern city of...
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A chance discovery of a medieval clay oven has revealed that Moorish architects used powdered animal bones to protect the walls of fortresses close to the Alhambra...
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AP, Boston
A Boston Fire Department ladder truck coming down a hill plowed through an intersection Friday and crashed into a high-rise apartment building, killing one firefighter...
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New government building of Republic of Srpska in Banja Luka, 100 kms northwest of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Sunday, April 28, 2009. Most Bosnian Serb people are known to barely make enough money to make ends meet, but their new government complex...
