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Ag geophysical mapping focuses on top six feet of soil INTERNET
Often, growers know why part of their crop field doesn't grow as well as another area. It may be because of poor drainage or a sandy soil type or a chronic nutrient deficiency or even a recurring disease or pest problem. But, sometimes, the cause...Tags: Agriculture, Agricultural Research and Technology, Environmental Issues, Natural Resources, The Ohio State University
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Hall of Famer fined for alleged insider trading
An alleged stock tip has gone from a home run to a strikeout for Hall of Fame baseball player Eddie Murray. The onetime Dodgers first baseman agreed Friday to pay $358,151 to settle an investigation into whether he broke insider-trading laws when he...Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Insider Trading, St. Louis Cardinals, College Sports, Baltimore Orioles
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Consumer protection inspections could be reduced
The state may overhaul the system that protects us from getting ripped off at the gas station, grocery store and even the parking meter. Some lawmakers want to do less-frequent inspections to make sure fuel pumps, home heating oil trucks and parking...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Services and Shopping, Kerosene, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Bucks County
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Sally Ride dies at 61; first American woman in space
In the early days of the space program, astronauts were ex-Marines, Air Force officers and hot-shot pilots. Sally Ride got there a little differently: She answered a want ad. In the late 1970s, NASA decided that, in addition to pilots, it needed some...
Tags: Sally Ride, Space Programs, Stanford University, Awards and Prizes, Pancreatic Cancer
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Eddie Murray settles charges in insider trading probe
The Baltimore SunOrioles Hall-of-Famer Eddie Murray has agreed to pay $358,151 to settle charges that he illegally profited from an insider trading scheme involving former teammate Doug DeCinces, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday. Murray, who...Tags: Trials, Brooks Robinson, Los Angeles Dodgers, Insider Trading, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Review: Jim Holt's compelling 'Why Does the World Exist?'
-------------------- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 -------------------- "How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second...
Tags: Human Interest, John Updike, Arts and Culture, Higgs Boson Search, Cosmology
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Joseph B. Platt dies at 96; founding president of Harvey Mudd College
![Launching a new college would "clearly be a great adventure but so is jumping off a bridge," physicist Joseph B. Platt wrote decades after accepting the challenge in 1956 to become the founding president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-07/71040093-12192439-187105.jpg "Launching a new college would "clearly be a great adventure but so is jumping off a bridge,\" physicist Joseph B. Platt wrote decades after accepting the challenge in 1956 to become the founding president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont.")
Launching a new college would "clearly be a great adventure but so is jumping off a bridge," physicist Joseph B. Platt wrote decades after accepting the challenge in 1956 to become the founding president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont.
Humor was a...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Harvey, Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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UMBC fellow makes breakthrough in 'ghost imaging'
Visit the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on any cloudless afternoon, and you're likely to happen on an intriguing sight: a slender fellow bent over a contraption that looks like a cross between an 1890s camera and a bulky steamer...Tags: U.S. Army, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Science, Blindness, Baltimore Convention Center
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Officials looking to change octane policy in state; public hearing Friday
Eighty-five octane gasoline has long been sold in western South Dakota, but state officials are now considering policy changes that would make the practice legal. Jenna Howell, staff attorney for the state Department of Public Safety, said when the sale...Tags: Government, Car Engine Repair, Marketing, Politics, Energy Resources
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Rice professor dies mountain climbing in Kyrgyzstan
KIAHThe sudden and unexplained death of a physics professor has stunned Rice University and the field of physics. Adilet Imambekov was a 30-year-old physics professor and researcher at Rice. He died this week while mountain climbing. He apparently died in...Tags: Science, Mountaineering, Science and Technology, Climbing
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Space pioneer Sally Ride dies
SAN DIEGO -- Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday at 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to the Sally Ride Science website. NASA selected Ride to join the astronaut program in 1978. She was selected...
Tags: NASA, Pancreatic Cancer, University of California, San Diego, Science and Technology
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Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space used to be a man's world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail into orbit for U.S. women. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by...
Tags: Barack Obama, Space Programs, Stanford University, Kennedy Space Center, Air Transportation Delays
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