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Focus on Poverty: An aid solution for slum dwellers
2013-09-20 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: I remember a dry comment nearly 40 years ago by a young woman on hearing that storms on the east coast of the United States had resulted in hugely costly damage: "Yeah, well, that'll be about four houses then". It came to mind when I read a SciDev.Net story on a study that said flood damage to coastal cities around the world could run to US$1 trillion a year. The numbers in the report are massive, but, for me, the report's most telling phrase was: "However, the paper does not assess the potential...
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U.S. Revives Aid Program for Clean Energy
2013-09-20 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration has decided to revive a controversial loan guarantee program at the Energy Department, administration officials said on Thursday, even as the program remains under Congressional scrutiny after losing hundreds of millions in taxpayer money on investments in failed green energy start-ups like the solar module maker Solyndra. This time, though, the program would devote as much as $8 billion to helping industries like coal and oil make cleaner energy. Although the program, which...
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Anheuser-Busch Delivers More Than 51,000 Cans Of Water To Aid Flood Relief Efforts In Colorado
2013-09-20 02:43:25| Beverages - Topix.net
Anheuser-Busch is providing 2,156 cases of emergency drinking water-or 51,744 cans-to the American Red Cross for their use in flood relief efforts in Colorado.
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Rite Aid Corp. Target of Unusually High Options Trading
2013-09-20 00:59:34| Apparel - Topix.net
Rite Aid Corp. saw some unusual options trading activity on Thursday. Stock investors acquired 34,362 call options on the stock, ARN reports.
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Multiple Entry Job Aid
2013-09-17 20:49:16| PortlandOnline
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