Transportation
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New York City floods as Sandy slams into eastern U.S. | Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman
The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it ...
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Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan
Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it ...
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It Sucks to be You! | David Glenn Cox
SS William G. Mather David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 17, 2012 It has been a strange weekend; fabulous, interesting, maudlin, magnificent and informative. Sometimes, even though you already ...
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The Eye of Sauron: Something New Under the Sun | Fred Reed
Aug. 8, 2012 (Fred On Everything) -- The pieces come together. Within the last week I have read: 1) New software, associated with Google, will recognize customers in stores so as to offer them ...
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On the Far Side of Denial | John Michael Greer
July 18, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Any readers of The Archdruid Report who grew up, as I did, watching old black and white science fiction serials repackaged for the afternoon TV market may be ...
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Russian Roulette: A Story of MTA Subway Systems and Inconsistent Wheelchair Accessibility | Michele Kaplan
Michele Kaplan July 14, 2012 -- NEW YORK -- It all began when I got word that the MTA was making the Kings Highway subway stop on the Q & B line, wheelchair accessible. I was thrilled! Finally, I ...
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The Cussedness of Whole Systems | John Michael Greer
June 27, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- There’s an interesting divergence between the extreme complexity of the predicament that besets contemporary industrial civilization, on the one hand, and the ...
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PILLOW TALK: Drivers Wanted | Deborah Goodwin
June 7, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- If you could indulge in just one rich-people's perk, a luxury without cost or bad karma, what would it be? For me, it would be a car and driver, hands down. A daily ...
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Truckers as Leading Indicator Show Stable U.S. Economic Growth | Anna-Louise Jackson and Anthony Feld
A driver walks past parked trucks. Photographer: Alan Petersime/Bloomberg June 14, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Rising truck shipments show the U.S. economic expansion is intact, even amid concerns that a ...
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Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP
The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of ...
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Cold War in Warm Waters: US-China's Dangerous Contest for Asia-Pacific | Ramzy Baroud
South China Sea. Source: Demis Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 22, 2012 -- On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s ...
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