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US town ponders China taking home the bacon
2013-06-03 04:08:15| Food - Topix.net
A herd of life-size swine statues lines its downtown, an ornament of a piglet wearing a bandanna adorns a front lawn, hams hang in storefronts and a pickup truck flaunts the licence plate "PIG TIME". The home of the world's largest pork producer and maker of famous Smithfield hams is divided in its reaction to news that the company has agreed to be ... (more)
Home of famous Va. hams ponders foreign buyout
2013-06-01 18:46:30| Food - Topix.net
Among the four firefighters killed while battling a Houston motel and restaurant fire were veterans of the department and a newcomer just a month out of the academy.
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Keeling's son ponders a sobering milestone
2013-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: When the history of humanitys struggle to combat climate change is written, few characters will play as prominent a role as Charles David Keeling. A geochemist, Keeling developed an accurate method of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, and in 1958 began recording background levels of the gas at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. That was the start of the famous Keeling Curve, which has tracked the steady rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Those levels have soared from 315 parts per million when...
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Ryanair ponders Slovak hub
2013-04-15 12:58:41| Airlines - Topix.net
SOME of the more than 170 planes the low-cost airline Ryanair will acquire through a landmark multi-billion-dollar deal with US aircraft manufacturer Boeing might be based in Slovakia if the Irish carrier's plan to open a hub in Bratislava works out.
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MIT panel ponders whether future networks can keep up
2013-03-02 21:20:22| Wireless - Topix.net
A panel discussion at MIT this week hailed major advances in networking technology, but warned that the challenges facing the world's information infrastructure are severe.