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Japan Quake Disruptions Continue
KickingTiresAutomakers on both sides of the Pacific Ocean are still feeling the impact of the Japanese earthquake from earlier this month. Japanese companies like Toyota and Honda that previously had stated their North American operations wouldn???t be impacted are...Tags: USA Today, Japan, Bodies of Water, Ohio, Automotive Equipment
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Driving in Mexico an Unconventional Hazard
MotherproofOur family recently spent a splendid week in Los Cabos, Mexico. In addition to all the pleasures, we also noticed some hazards in Mexico. Not the drinking water or the intersection of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez, but hazard lights....Tags: Coral Reefs, Bodies of Water
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Gore: Obama stimulus good for climate
The Swampby Frank James Former Vice President Al Gore was on Capitol Hill today delivering more of his inconvenient truths. He did an updated version of his documentary for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. That meant the last two unsuccessful......Tags: Bodies of Water, Government, United States, Florida, Education
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How to boil water
Dining@LargeOwl Meat makes his triumphant return to the Dining@Large pantheon of guest posters with this Funtastic Thursday. However, I have to say that I always thought you put salt in the water you're about to boil pasta in for the......Tags: Salt, Getty Images Inc., Bodies of Water, Pasta, Colorado
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Piracy, patience, precision and steel
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated with a transcript of interview The Navy SEAL snipers aboard the USS Bainbridge, hooking and towing the lifeboat in which four pirates held the captain of the pirate-attacked Maersk Alabama, waited, picking the moment to......Tags: Bodies of Water, Richard Phillips, Easter, White House, Crimes
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Titanic's last survivor: Milvina Dean, 97
The Swampby Mary Rourke Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic, the ocean-liner that sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean, died today. She was 97. She died at......Tags: Bodies of Water, Movies, Trips and Vacations, Imperial and Royal Matters, Dining and Drinking
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At last: An explanation for high June/July tides
Maryland WeatherLots of Marylanders noticed it. A few sent me emails asking why the tides in Maryland during June and early July seemed so persistently high - from a few inches to a few feet at times, with some minor coastal......Tags: Weather Reports, Bodies of Water, Maine, Ocean Tides, New Jersey
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Pirate warning: 'Increase' expected
The Swampby Mark Silva As if hurricane and monsoon season weren't enough to worry about on the high seas, high pirate season may be on its way. The Maritime Administration today issued an advisory to mariners that piracy is likely to......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Bodies of Water, Crimes, Piracy, Weather
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Gloucester Planning Commission talks sea level rise tonight
Who's on Team Gloucester?The topic of sea level rise and how it affects long-range planning and development will be a key topic of tonight's Gloucester Planning Commission meeting. Skip Stiles, executive director of the Norfolk-based non-profit environmental group Wetlands Watch,...Tags: Weather Reports, Bodies of Water, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Weather, Mathews (Mathews, Virginia)
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NOAA still expects "very active" hurricane season
Maryland WeatherWith only three named storms on the books so far as we move into the traditional August-to-October peak of hurricane activity in the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center has trimmed the top end of its predictions for hurricane activity during the 2010....Tags: Bodies of Water, Tropical Storms, Florida, Mexico, Weather
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CO2 Milestone Tips Us Into 'Meltdown' Realm
The Hartford CourantLast week, the world got a case of sticker shock. For the first time in recorded history, the price of our energy-rich lifestyle hit the magic number of 400 parts-per-million carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. There's no politics involved in this number....Tags: Bodies of Water, University of Connecticut, Glaciers, Landforms
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The surprise oyster
New Orleans swings below sea level, a fact we are unable to grasp. Near sea level: nice. At sea level: charming. Below sea level: huh? Those easy afternoons ambling the cobblestone, scalding chicory-au-lait in hand, should, logically, have required...
Tags: Salt, Bodies of Water, Oysters, Garlic, Environmental Issues
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