Transportation
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Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson
A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ...
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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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