India is planning on investing around $3 billion in cleaning the river Ganges, which flows through northern India and Bangladesh. Currently, around 50 percent of Delhi's raw sewage flows straigt into the Ganges. ...
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Costa Rican Ex-president Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1990-1994), was found guilty of peculation in what was known as the Caja-Fischel case, which culminated in the largest corruption scandal and the first...
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" Representative Joe Wilson got it wrong, or did he? Just when I thought there would be little to write about this long after I attended the 912 Washington DC TEA Party event, fate has crashed open an avenue of...
Patrick Shearn and Cynthia Washburn, a couple of Los Angeles artists have teamed up and are a part of a campaign for Toyota's newest generation Prius. The project is called Prius Solar Flower Lounge and managed by...
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Walmart came up with a new stradegy to bankrupt competition by being the world's largest retailer and their stradegy is called Project Impact. One of the goals are to have the stores less cluttery and more clean...
The premier of the sixth season of Project Runway, hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum,airs on August 20 at 8/7c. The season premier of Project Runway will be preceded by a two-hour special episode where all-star designers from previous seasons battle it out for a chance to win a...
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" U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell participated in the announcement, praising the plans. She pointed out the value of federal tax credits for solar projects, which she helped to extend. "This project will move Washington...
"The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E....
" MANILA -- The P11.3-billion project to automate next year’s elections is back on track, just days after the winning bidders threatened to walk out on the deal. “We were able to thresh out everything,”...
" Google () promised to deliver something spectacular on the second day of the Google I/O conference, and they did not disappoint. Google has just announced Google Wave, a new in-browser communication and...
'Playing For Change' is a multimedia movement created to inspire world peace, and it's been a popular hit on YouTube this year. It started off a decade ago, by Grammy winning producer/engineer Mark Johnson,...
The iconic Empire State Building in New York is set to get a $20 million green makeover, to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions the building puts out by 105,000 metric tons over the next 15 years. This is...
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" Merging Art & Commerce: The Developer’s Role in Retail Design ( Public ) Written by Mark Bethel Mar 04, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Art vs. commerce is an age-old battle that developers and...
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There's a lot of questions being raised about the future of using so-called public-private partnerships to provide major infrastructure projects like the Port Mann Bridge and Highway 1 expansion. Just yesterday,...
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Banteay Srey is a magnificent jewel of a temple. Finely sculpted, with an incredible richness of details, the pink shades of the sandstone come alive in the early morning and at the end of the day. ...
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