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- What Went Right — and Wrong — in Three Real Cases of Uncertainty
- Organizations deal with uncertainty all too often these days. You can learn a lot from examining what these companies have done and why, even if it didn't pay off. ...
- Articles 2009-05-04
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- NASA: Future missions to study clouds, aerosols, volcanic plumes.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 December 1998-NASA: Future missions to study clouds, aerosols, volcanic plumes C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:221298 NASA has chosen for development three small spacecraft missions designed to explore the Earth's dynamic systems early in the new millennium under the Office...
- Research articles 1998-12-28
- EPA Cracks Down on Diesel-Powered Engines, Refineries.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Dec. 22--WASHINGTON-- Targeting the thick plumes of smoke spewing from diesel-powered trucks and buses, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued its final rule to force refiners to remove virtually all of the sulfur from diesel fue Dec. 22--WASHINGTON-- Targeting the thick plumes of smoke...
- Research articles 2000-12-21
- Plume will be pumped
- The board for the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District came to a historic decision Thursday on how to best clean up two contaminated groundwater plumes caused by Kennecott Copper's mining operations. After years of study, debate and discussion -- and calling it "the best we can do" --...
- Research articles 2004-04-29
- Ohio Group Sues AEP to Stop Acid Emissions from Cheshire Power Plant.
- By Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 13--A group of Ohio residents has sued American Electric Power to try to stop sulfuric acid plumes still being released from the company's James M. Gavin Power Plant. ...
- Research articles 2004-05-13
- Saturn moon shows potential for water and life: NASA
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Cassini spacecraft detected temperatures and organic materials indicating possible conditions for life on Saturn's moon Enceladus as it flew through giant plumes at the moon's south pole, NASA officials said Wednesday. The spacecraft found a high density of water vapor and both simple and complex...
- Research articles 2008-03-26
- NASA set to dive bomb the moon
- A NASA spacecraft and its trusty rocket stage are drawing ever closer to the moon to intentionally crash to their doom Friday, all in the name of science. The cosmic collisions are expected to kick up tons of moon dirt in giant debris plumes that will then be scanned for...
- News items 2009-10-08
- USDA Forest Service Selects Cray XD1 Supercomputer to Improve Wildfire Smoke Plume Path Prediction and Tracking
- SEATTLE -- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service has selected the new Cray XD1TM supercomputer to help improve the Forest Service's ability to predict and track the paths of smoke plumes from wildfires. Financial details were not disclosed.
- Research articles 2004-10-04
- New fighting erupts in flashpoint Iraqi Sunni stronghold
- FALLUJAH, Iraq AFP ? US aircraft pounded suspected insurgent positions in the Sunni Muslim bastion of Fallujah for a second day, but US commanders said they were still committed to ongoing peace talks. US helicopters and planes rained missile and machine-gun fire onto several buildings after heavy battles broke...
- Research articles 2004-04-28
- Springfield firm's plumes draw fines
- Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Particleboard maker SierraPine Ltd.'s factory in east Springfield is paying fines of up to $1,000 a month while the company tries to figure out how to cut the plant's visible emissions to comply with an air quality rule. ...
- Research articles 2002-09-12
- WTC SYNDROME.(respiratory illness common in rescuers, survivors of World Trade Center collapse)(Brief Article)
- New York-area physicians have begun seeing a series of illnesses among emergency workers and others who were trapped in the dense plumes of dust and debris on Sept. 11. Dubbed World Trade Center Syndrome, the ailments range from unrelenting coughs and sinus infections to posttraumatic stress...
- Research articles 2001-11-05
- Seven dead in blast outside Al-Arabiya Baghdad office: TV
- BAGHDAD AFP — Seven people were killed and several wounded when a car bomb ripped through the streets outside Al-Arabiya television's offices in Baghdad, the network said. The US military earlier said that five people had been killed and 19 wounded when the car bomb exploded outside an Arabic...
- Research articles 2004-10-30
- Massive locust swarm threatens crops in northern Egypt
- ALEXANDRIA, Egypt AFP — A massive locust swarm made landfall west of Egypt's second city of Alexandria, threatening crops in one of the country's most fertile agricultural regions. An AFP correspondent on the scene said Monday that the the swarm extended for as much as 60 kilometres (40 miles)...
- Research articles 2004-11-15
- Gulf War Illnesses: Preliminary Assessment of DOD Plume Modeling for U.S. Troops' Exposure to Chemical Agents.
- GAO-03-833T June 2, 2003 Of the approximately 700,000 veterans of the Persian Gulf War, many have undiagnosed illnesses. The Department of Defense DOD and the Central Intelligence Agency CIA have concluded, using computer plume modeling, that no U.S. troops were exposed to hazardous substances because plumes--clouds of chemical...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- Airborne IR Sensing Technology.
- Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and emergency first- responders from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have developed airborne infrared sensor technology that can aid emergency crews by detecting and mapping hazardous and toxic chemical plumes unleashed by disaster or terrorist acts. The Airborne Spectral Photometric Collection Technology,...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- There's no healing to be found on the playing field
- The fires still smoldered Wednesday. The hope for survivors dimmed, and the death count could barely begin. The aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attack in New York and Washington D.C. had only begun to penetrate the shock. Shea Stadium's parking lot served as a staging area for...
- Research articles 2001-09-13
- Rare earths: oil's signature in the air - rare earth oxides used to identify source of air pollution
- Tracing pollutants back to the oil refineries and oil-fired power plants from which they spewed should become less of a forensic puzzle now that trackers know what to look for. Chemists at the University of Maryland in College Park have identified a distinctive metallic signature for these emissions in...
- Research articles 1985-09-07
- Cloud conundrums; satellites have spied strange plumes coming from the Soviet Arctic regions, including some rising from an island that served as a nuclear testing ground
- Cloud Conundrums In 1810, a Russian industrialist namedJacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands in the East Siberian Sea, looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new continent. Sannikov's sighting and similar reportsfrom 19th-century Arctic explorers fueled the belief of many geographers at the...
- Research articles 1987-03-28
- VIRGIN'S pounds 2,100 A TRIP BEDS GO UP IN SMOKE; Luxury flights
- VIRGIN Atlantic may have to scrap its famous seat-beds...after some started spilling out smoke and flames. The first commercial airline seats which turn into beds have been plagued with problems since they were introduced last year as the ultimate in-flight luxury. The Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed...
- Research articles 2001-05-13
- U.S. Army captures key bridge
- WITH THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION, in central Iraq -- "Six lanes to Baghdad," Lt. Col. Thomas P. Smith shouted Wednesday as a column of American tanks and armored vehicles lurched slowly toward the bridge over a sharp bend in the Euphrates River. "We'll be home soon." His...
- Research articles 2003-04-03
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