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• Teens inventing the future.(CTE News)(Brief article)

  - 2007-10-01

  Boston Globe, August 2, 2007 Imagine developing a flashlight that attaches to a backpack, or something else useful that no one else has invented. Rachel Wilk, a 15-year-old, recently created a prototype for this invention at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell's DesignCamp. Wilk believes this type of...

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• Sales, employment climb at aerospace firms.

  - 2004-12-09

  By Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 9--WASHINGTON -- The aerospace industry bounced back this year with record sales and the first upswing in employment in five years as a result of "robust" defense spending, according to an...

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• Massachusetts researcher sees area promise for hardy crops of cabbage family.

  - 2004-11-29

  By Kathleen Burge, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--Andrew Cavanagh has glimpsed the future, and it is Brussels sprouts. In rows of broccoli lined up like cadets, in clusters of cauliflower hiding their snowy heads within...

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• Dedham, Mass., law firm at center of uproar over terror suspect transfers.

  - 2004-11-29

  By Farah Stockman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--DEDHAM, Mass. -- Most here know Hill & Plakias as a family law firm that handles real estate and civil squabbles for the residents of this Boston suburb. ...

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• In Fallujah, United States battles clock in rebuilding effort.

  - 2004-11-21

  By Anne Barnard, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 21--FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US military officers contending with scattered gun battles across this smoldering city predict it will be weeks -- and longer in some neighborhoods -- before residents can ...

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• Insurgent fighters in Fallujah, Iraq, use deadly arms, simple tactics.

  - 2004-11-16

  By Anne Barnard, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 16--FALLUJAH, Iraq -- They carried surface-to-air missiles and armor-piercing bullets, but they wore plastic thong sandals and often died barefoot. They were able to briefly rattle US troops...

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• Christian lobbying finds success as evangelicals help to steer Bush efforts.

  - 2004-10-14

  By Farah Stockman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 14--WASHINGTON -- Days before George W. Bush was elected president, he took a break from his harried campaigning in Florida to have breakfast with evangelist Franklin Graham, whose father, Billy, ...

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• West Bridgewater, Mass.-based grocery chain plans to leap online.

  - 2004-10-13

  By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--Shaw's Supermarkets said it plans to jump into the online grocery market and compete head to head against Peapod and Stop & Shop, taking a chance on a business where failure has...

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• Ocean Spray cranberry cooperative pushes plan of attack to survive.

  - 2004-09-26

  By Naomi Aoki, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 26--LAKEVILLE, Mass. -- To listen to those outside the company, Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. chief executive Randy Papadellis is trying to do the impossible. Papadellis' mandate -- set this...

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• Florida residents hold torch for Sunshine State despite devastating storms.

  - 2004-09-10

  By Yvonne Abraham, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 10--YEEHAW JUNCTION, Fla. -- Desert Inn bar and motel manager Karen Hicks is good and done with hurricanes. First, Charley pounded up from the southwest part of the state. ...

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