Rolling Stone Knows the Profit-Planet ProblemRolling Stone is getting on the "Sustainability Staircase"Here's the "Planet-Profit" Problem: Rolling Stone is a magazine made of paper and paper production releases greenhouse gases, contributes to deforestation, uses more water to produce one ton of product than any other industry, and the list goes...
Crowds of people -- the next renewable source of energy? OK, it's not likely to happen in the immediate future, but it's a feasible prospect, say two architecture students who have a prize-winning plan to turn human power into electricity. "Almost everyone has felt a concrete...
The Radius toothbrush factory in Kutztown, Pa., was hit by a 100-mph microburst July 16, which caused extensive damage to the building and machinery. A microburst is a high-force, straight-line wind that causes destruction similar to that of a tornado. The 20-minute storm ripped trees from the ground and tore...
Norman Rijo, president, announced that NCI Construction, Inc. has completed a substantial renovation of the Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC headquarters at 40 West 20th Street in Manhattan. The project included construction of new offices for executive and administrative staff as well as conference room space. ...
As usual, Island jury awards set no records in 2006 It's not much, by the eye-popping standards of juries in other parts of the country that routinely pass out multimillion-dollar awards, but the $1.5 million awarded to an air-traffic controller who fell at LaGuardia Airport was the...
A half-century ago, James Watson and Francis Crick aided by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins discovered the double-helical structure of deoxyribonucleic acid DNA. Other scientists soon showed how DNA--through a triplet code of nucleotide bases on the DNA "spiral staircase" and through ribonucleic acid RNA ...
Stamford Superior Court Connecticut Building and Remodeling L.L.C., Bridgeport. Filed by Fernando DaSilva, Norwood, Mass. Plaintiff's attorney: Ventura, Ribeiro and Smith, Danbury. Action: plaintiff claims that the defendant was renovating a property and had covered an uninstalled staircase with building construction paper; plaintiff...
TOKYO, June 23 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING INFO) Police have launched an investigation into a suspected attempted murder after a 5-year-old boy who apparently fell from a pubic condominium in Tokyo on Tuesday afternoon said he had been pushed by a girl....
Jubran v. Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc., U.S. Dist. Ct., N.D. Tex., No. 3-02-CV-1923-R, Sept. 16, 2003. Jubran, 74, was descending access stairs in an airport to board a flight. Jubran's daughter was assisting her, but airline personnel stopped her because she was not a passenger on the flight. The airline...
Johnson v. Witteles, Cal., Los Angeles County Super. Ct., No. YC 043572, Apr. 17, 2003. Johnson, 51, was walking from her apartment to her car when she slipped on the glazed ceramic tile surface of the apartment building's exterior staircase and fell. She landed awkwardly on her left foot, sustaining...
By Steve Swartz The Capital-Journal LAWRENCE --- A tornado that heavily damaged 40 homes and apartment buildings in southwest Lawrence on Thursday night resulted in one minor injury. A Lawrence police spokesman said the twister possibly was the weakened tail end...
Seated on a staircase, legs akimbo, Sam Taylor-Wood occupies the frame of her own large-scale projection, the 35mm film-to-DVD Pieta (2001)--titled after the Michelangelo sculpture that is her inspiration--with the actor Robert Downey Jr. sprawled across her lap. For less than two looped and silent minutes, she cradles the buff...
Balls v. Hudson Valley Embroidery, Inc., N.Y., Rockland County Sup. Ct., No. 3629/98, Jan. 18, 2002. Balla, 20, fell while descending a staircase. He sustained a ligament injury to his left knee, requiring several surgeries, and an aggravation of a preexisting condition in his right knee. A student, his...
Byline: Stacy St. Clair Daily Herald Staff Writer A Winfield establishment will be shuttered temporarily following an early morning fire Saturday. Poco Loco, 28W520 Highlake Road, sustained extensive smoke and water damage in the blaze. The restaurant, formerly Highlake Tavern, will...
Tennis Andre Agassi's defence of his Australian Open crown nearly came to grief in the first round at Flinders Park in Melbourne yesterday when he stumbled against a combination of a spiral staircase and an unknown qualifier, Gaston Etlis of Argentina Agassi, the world...
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