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The $900 million project to widen 50 miles of the Garden State Parkway may someday be remembered for producing "ribbons of asphalt" that spurred massive sprawl in the Pinelands, one of New Jersey's most ecologically fragile regions.
Radio is losing ad dollars, while listening dips slightly
Elroy Smith has been in radio since 1981, and it's not what it used to be.
"Jocks are working double shifts," says Smith, Philadelphia operations manager for urban-oriented Radio One. "I'm doing three stations here, and one in Charlotte."
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This one's going to blow baby boomers' minds. It concerns a little-known law dating to Elizabethan England suddenly being enforced with gusto in Pennsylvania. The law can force adult children to pay their parents' health-care costs.
- Old bat resurfaces at Academy of Natural Sciences.The furry, winged creature was shot down in the South Pacific and brought by ship to Philadelphia, where it was skinned and stored in a jar of alcohol alongside other curios of the Victorian era.
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Surrounded by rare antique racing cars, Daniel Sanchez, 18, of Spain, let a 16-pound bowling ball slide out of his hands and roll down an aluminum ramp.
- Wealthy nations extend a hand. "Too many people are still struggling," Obama said.L'AQUILA, Italy - Leaders of the world's major economies yesterday pledged $20 billion for food and agricultural aid to the world's most impoverished countries, and President Obama ended the G-8 summit by saying that despite steps forward on economic, environmental, and security issues, much work remained to be done.
- Despite Obama's optimism at the G-8 summit, the recession and old hitches prevent firm commitments.L'AQUILA, Italy - Addressing leaders of the world's most important economies yesterday, President Obama wasted no time in proclaiming a new day for U.S. policy on climate change.
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One hazy afternoon, a green pickup truck pulls in front of Elizabeth Peoples' home in West Oak Lane, and out jumps supervisor Jeff Daniels and two teen workers, all in matching T-shirts. They unload lawn mowers and hedge clippers and begin to maintain the beauty they had created a few weeks earlier.
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Power outages are rites of spring around here, but this time, even Peco was in the dark. There was no thunder, no high winds, no lightning, no car smashing into a utility pole. Yet somehow, six Delaware County homes had lost power.
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For too long, says Philip Zimbardo, psychologists - including himself - have spent most of their time trying to understand how and why things go wrong. This work has produced, among other benefits, effective therapies for mental illnesses. But mental health, like physical health, means more than just eliminating sickness. It means actively thriving.
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My patient was yelling at me. She had spent the better part of a morning waiting, and now she was letting me have it.
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Ichthyologist John Lundberg has been nipped by his share of piranhas. It's an occupational hazard of doing field work in South American rivers. Luckily for him, the sharp- toothed predators no longer grow to three feet long, as they apparently did nine million years ago.
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Dear Dan, My daughter died three years ago of the lung disease mesothelioma at age 38. She had suffered from depression, panic, and anxiety from a very young age.
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CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast, and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator.
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Inquirer environmental reporter Sandy Bauers writes on how to live a more ecologically sensitive life.
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My patient was yelling at me. She had spent the better part of a morning waiting, and now she was letting me have it.
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WASHINGTON - On Dec. 5, 2007, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson prepared to send the White House an extraordinary document. It declared that climate change imperiled the public welfare - a decision that would trigger the nation's first mandatory global-warming regulations.
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In a dozen cases since 2001, federal judges in Washington have used increasingly caustic language to throw out EPA regulations, chastising the Bush administration for illegally changing U.S. environmental rules.
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CHARLESTON, Tenn. - In January 2005, residents near the chlorine plant here discovered that it was the biggest mercury emitter in the state. Environmentalists warned them against eating fish from their beloved Hiwassee River.
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Leading environmental scientists have denounced EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson for substituting politics for science on key pollution issues - from not regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming to delaying the assessment of toxic chemicals. But it was in a succession of decisions on air quality that Johnson's uneven application of science had perhaps the most severe impacts on human health.
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Smoke and Mirrors. The Subversion of the EPA - See videos including an exclusive interview with EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, interactive graphics, photos, and more.
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