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For Naval Academy plebes, a grueling end to the year
The wake-up call came at 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, but Midshipman Alberto Salabarria was ready well before then. Anticipating a grueling, thrilling, muddy day of Sea Trials at the Naval Academy, Salabarria and some of his classmates couldn't wait....
Tags: United States Naval Academy, Science and Technology, Trials, Engineering, Water Supply
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Retired astronaut encourages Western Heights students to follow dreams
julieg@herald-mail.comRetired NASA astronaut Don Thomas encouraged Western Heights Middle School eighth-graders to follow their dreams and to persevere, as he did. “If you forget everything else I told you here today, the one thing I want you to remember is to never...Tags: Willard Hackerman, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Education, Rocketry, Teaching and Learning
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A conversation with Ted Klaus, chief engineer of the new Acura NSX
Autoblog.comFiled under: Coupe, Hybrid, Performance, Acura, Luxury Last week, Autoblog sat down with Ted Klaus, chief engineer of the upcoming Acura NSX flagship, at the corporate headquarters of American Honda in Southern California. The roundtable discussion with a... -
UConn Transformation Leaves Some Faculty Out
The Hartford CourantIn the race to make the University of Connecticut more prominent and transform it into an economic engine for the state, some faculty members say their views are getting lost in the shuffle. Since the 1960s, "shared governance" has been a formal...Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , University of Connecticut, Education, Teaching and Learning, Students
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FEATURE-Tired of economic crisis, Sudanese pack up to try their luck abroad
ReutersBy Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM, May 15 (Reuters) - In a cramped government office in Khartoum, engineer Ahmed Taha and dozens of other Sudanese, lured by local newspaper adverts for jobs in the Gulf, sit waiting to get a permit to leave the country and work...Tags: Unemployment, Healthcare Contract Issues, Medical Research, Science and Technology, Migration
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Washington Co. divides duties of vacant public works chief position
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comWashington County has been without a Division of Public Works director since the retirement and departure of the former department head Joe Kroboth III. On Tuesday night, County Administrator Gregory B. Murray requested that the director position be...Tags: Science and Technology
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'Sam Ekwurtzel: On the Beach' At Real Art Ways
The Hartford CourantIn Japan, huge concrete structures called tetrapods sit on the beach, designed to fortify coastal areas by dissipating the waves, which can become unruly. "They are thrown onto the beach like jacks," Sam Ekwurtzel says. "There are thousands of them, a...Tags: Philosophy, Science and Technology, Real Art Ways, Columbia University, Religion and Belief
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Arlington Heights board considers flood study
Arlington Heights is moving forward on another study for a long-term flooding fix, but officials said the short-term answer is overhead sewers. At a meeting Monday night, the village board gave the preliminary green light to the commissioning of a $285,...Tags: Science and Technology, Local Government, Elections, Politics
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World science map grim for Latin America
The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities, and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's northern hemisphere full of lights, and the south almost solidly...Tags: Brazil, Education, Science, Mexico, Northeastern University
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Obamacare's tax on innovation
Government leaders are asking us to out-innovate, out-export and out-work our competitors in order for the United States to turn this economy around. But what if our own government was instituting policies that proved to be some of the biggest obstacles...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Agricultural Research and Technology, Agriculture, University of Maryland, College Park, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Virginia Tech president Steger stepping down
Virginia Tech president Charles Steger announced Tuesday that he is stepping down. Steger is scheduled to give the commencement speech at Virginia Tech’s graduation Friday. Steger has been the school’s president since 2000. “When...
Tags: Financial Aid, Life Sciences Institute Incorporated, Architecture, Atlantic Coast Conference, Teaching and Learning
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William J. Turcovski, engineer
William J. "Bill" Turcovski, a Northrop Grumman electrical engineer who enjoyed antiquing, died May 7 from pneumonia at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. He was 52. The son of a supervisor and a homemaker, William John Turcovski was born and...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Pneumonia, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief, Annapolis
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