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Letters July 15: Roundabouts; federal deficit
Re: “Cadboro Bay gets mini-roundabout with feature for big vehicles,” July 13. The quote in the story, that “drivers don’t ...
Social Security paid $80,000 for her care. Yet this disabled Milwaukee woman slept on the street.
Representative payees collect Social Security for disabled people and use it to help them secure housing. The arrangement is ...
National Catholic Reporter6d
Maryland parishioners bring letters to Congress advocating for immigrants
A group from St. Camillus in Silver Spring delivered letters calling on legislators to reject "harmful policies" that ...
Examining mushrooms under microscopes can help engineers design stronger materials
To separate geometry from chemistry, we converted snapshots from the microscope into a computer model using a 3D Voronoi network – a pattern that mimics the walls between bubbles in a foam. Think of ...
Nextdoor social site, looking for a revival, pins hopes on partnership with local news providers
“It’s like what is old is new again,” said Sam Cholke, manager of distribution and audience growth for the Institute for ...
Most teens — and girls especially — see college as key to jobs and life skills, AP-NORC poll says
A recent AP-NORC Teen Poll poll shows most U.S. teenagers prioritize graduating from college, with 70% of girls and 54% of ...
Most teens — and girls especially — see college as key to jobs and life skills, poll says
About 7 in 10 teenagers said completing college is “extremely” or “very” important for getting good jobs, and about 6 in 10 ...
Compound Semiconductor6d
Understanding defects and subgap formation in single-crystal IGZO
Until recently, most studies on subgap states focused on amorphous IGZO, as sufficiently large single-crystal IGZO (sc-IGZO) ...
Thoroughbred Daily News1d
Arbitrator Suspends Serpe Two Years, but Unlike Other Clenbuterol Cases, HIWU Does Not Pursue Any Fine
The arbitrator in charge of trainer Phil Serpe's contested clenbuterol positive detected in a filly who won last summer at Saratoga Race Course has issued a final decision that metes out the exact ...
Jambands.com5d
Phish Bring Bust-Outs and Eclectic Setlist to 25-Year Columbus Return
Phish, photo by Dave Vann Last night, July 9, Phish touched down in Columbus, Ohio for the first time since July 2000. Since ...
North Carolina Health News3d
N.C. has allowed a likely carcinogen into three rivers serving 900,000 people
Environmentalists are suing to stop the flow of 1,4-dioxane from a nearby factory into Asheboro's drinking water supply.
‘Carrying the torch': WWII soldier who died in prison camp in Philippines identified, buried in S.F.
"To have him return back to San Francisco to be buried at the Presidio in the last place he saw before he left America (is) amazing," said Eric Ulich of his great uncle, Cpl. Ernest Ulrich.