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Bitcoin concept is gaining currency
Not that long ago, the virtual currency Bitcoin was one of the Internet's great rebel causes, a digital form of money embraced by libertarians and anti-establishment types who saw it as a way to diminish the power of big governments and big corporations....
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Computer Networking and Internet, Bitcoin
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Cannes 2013: 'Touch of Sin' a corrosive depiction of Chinese society
CANNES, France -- Films dealing with societal corruption may be nothing new for Western audiences. But in China, where the government keeps a tight grip on what appears on movie screens, that is hardly the case. Which is why “A Touch of Sin,&...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Metal and Mineral, Career and Workplace, Film Festivals, China
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a century. Burning mostly coal and some natural...
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Global Warming, White House, Metal and Mineral, Environmental Pollution
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Bolivia: Surreal beauty in the high desert of the Andean plateau
POTOSÍ, Bolivia — A gentle breeze swept across Laguna Colorada, momentarily turning the magenta mineral lake water neon-orange as it rippled around the knobby knees of several dozen flamingos. Suddenly, a pair of frisky vicuñas trotted...
Tags: Mountains, Landforms, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Metal and Mineral, Bolivia
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Plans shelved for coal export terminal in Oregon
SEATTLE — The battle over plans for a series of massive coal export terminals across the Pacific Northwest took a new turn Wednesday when the energy company Kinder Morgan announced it was dropping its plan to build a $200-million facility on the...
Tags: Kinder Morgan Incorporated, Asthma, Metal and Mineral, Environmental Pollution, Coal
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Crews search for three hikers missing in Big Bear area
About 40 San Bernardino County search and rescue personnel searched Tuesday for three hikers who went missing in the Big Bear area. Ryan Shankles and Miguel De La Torre from Oceanside and David Yoder from Carlsbad set out on a hike Saturday morning on...
Tags: Metal and Mineral
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Three missing hikers found in Big Bear area
Three hikers missing in the Big Bear area for more than three days were found Tuesday by a San Bernardino County sheriff's helicopter, officials said. Ryan Shankles and Miguel De La Torre of Oceanside and David Yoder of Carlsbad were found at 10:15 a.m....
Tags: Hypothermia, North Fork, Metal and Mineral, Auction Service
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Study: Gulf oil spill is sickening fish vital to seafood industry
The seafood is safe to eat and the Gulf of Mexico tourism industry is recovering three years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the waters off Louisiana. But despite that BP-sponsored...
Tags: Seafood, Metal and Mineral, Gulf of Mexico, Environmental Pollution, Conservation
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Stanley A. Dashew dies at 96; helped revolutionize credit card industry
Stanley A. Dashew, an inventor and entrepreneur who helped revolutionize the credit card industry, died of natural causes Thursday in Los Angeles, according to a family spokesman. He was 96. Dashew held 40 patents in fields as diverse as credit card...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Banking, Bank of America Corp., Parkinson's Disease, American Express Company
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In the eastern Sierra, cinema buffs look for frames of reference
LONE PINE, Calif. — As howling winds tore through the eastern Sierra, Dan Gillespie and his wife Carol trudged along a narrow gravel path, their eyes alternating between photos they carried and the contours of a cove guarded by granite walls. At...
Tags: Land Resources, Action (Movie Genre), Metal and Mineral, Celebrities, Museums
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In Montana, ranchers line up against coal
COLSTRIP, Mont. — Out in these windy stretches of cottonwood and prairie grass, not far from where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer ran into problems at Little Bighorn, a new battle is unfolding over what future energy development in the West will...
Tags: Transportation, Railway Transportation, Asthma, Metal and Mineral, Environmental Pollution
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Federal court backs EPA regulation of mountaintop removal
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court unanimously backed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate a controversial form of coal mining called mountaintop removal, overturning a lower court decision that barred the agency from...
Tags: Metal and Mineral, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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