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Tar Sands Oil Fight Moves to Maine Towns
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Portland Press Herald: Code Enforcement Officer Chris Hanson eyed the door of the selectmen's chambers every time it opened, counting each person who came into the room -- something he doesn't often have to do. The room was nine people short of capacity just before the start of the meeting Tuesday evening, when it would become the latest battleground for the Portland Pipe Line Corp. and environmentalists trying to prevent the company from carrying so-called tar sands oil through the Sebago Lake watershed. The owner...
AUDIO: Pedestrianisation 'damaging towns'
2013-02-12 08:36:47| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Local councils are being urged to consider re-opening pedestrian zones to traffic amid claims they are damaging town centres.
Walls and winter rains afflict Palestinian towns
2013-01-09 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy winter downpours have turned some Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank into a morass of filth and flooding as an Israeli barrier blocks the waters from draining away. In Qalqilya, a town of 42,000 in the northern West Bank almost completely surrounded by the concrete wall, Khaled Kandeel and his family huddled by an open fire in a shed as trash-laden water swelled through his pear orchard. "Before the wall, the water used to drain fine, and flowed down to the sea easily. They could...
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Kobe Bryant Joins Twitter, Earns Small Town's Worth of Followers
2013-01-05 02:35:49| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Basketball wunderkind Kobe Bryant today joined the micro-blogging site, garnering almost more than 230,000 followers within hours.
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