Positive news from Virginia
Clever canine ducks death rowKansas City, MO - Let's have a pop quiz... If you were a dog about to be euthanized, what would you do? |
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AEP seeks proposals for 1,000 MW of wind power in eastern statesColumbus, Ohio, USA - American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) has issued two requests for proposals (RFPs) seeking long-term wind energy purchase agreements, the first steps toward a goal of adding 1,000 megawatts of new wind energy by 2011. |
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Professor Wins $1 Million for Arsenic FilterFairfax, Virgina, USA - A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize - and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world. |
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NASA to Launch Jamestown Artifact, Coins Aboard ShuttleLangley, Virginia, USA - The 17th-century metal worker who prepared a tag to mark cargo heading for the New World could have never imagined that his craftsmanship would eventually be leaving the planet. |
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Worldwide Youth Network Raises $40,000 to Help Orphan Chimpanzees in AfricaArlington, Virginia, USA - Orphan chimpanzees in Africa will get a new place to rest their heads thanks to the remarkable efforts of hundreds of young people, all members of the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots & Shoots program, who raised $40,000 in 2006 for a new care facility at the Institute's Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo. |
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Man saves child falling from windowArlington, Virginia, USA - It took a second or two for Jaimen Ortiz to fully comprehend what he was seeing: two toddlers playing in an open second-floor window, and one of them hanging from the window sill. |
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Obscure Robert Frost poem discoveredNew York City, New York, USA - An unpublished Robert Frost poem, a tribute to a friend killed during World War I, has been rediscovered and will appear next week in the fall issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, the University of Virginia announced Wednesday. |
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Cosby Calls on all AmericansRichmond, Virginia, USA - Bill Cosby called on each American to contribute $8 to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War. |
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University of Virginia student graduates in one yearCharlottesville, VA - And you thought your kid was smart. David Banh, an 18-year-old from Annandale, just graduated from the University of Virginia in one year. With a double major [mathmatics and physics]. |
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Jamestown Colony Well Yields Clues to Chesapeake’s HealthJamestown, Virginia, USA - A 17th-century well discovered last year in Jamestown, Virginia, could reveal rich details about the environmental health of the Chesapeake Bay 400 years ago, say archaeologists who are excavating the site. |
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Good news in America
- Obama triples area of protected California coastline
- Obama ‘backs assault weapons ban’
- Victories for Marriage Equality and First Openly Gay U.S. Senator
- Lucas Giving Disney’s Billions To Fund Education
- New Water Treatment Process Could Help Bring Dead Zones Back to Life
- SpaceX launches station cargo
- Tesla Unveils Solar Powered Charging Stations
- Obama Hikes Fuel Efficiency to 54.5 MPG by 2025
- Bill Nye the Science Guy asks parents not to raise creationist kids
- Community-Owned Solar Power on the Rise in the U.S.
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