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    Jul 4, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Along with beauty, fireworks create a beastly mix of pollutants

    When the rockets and the bombs burst in the air tonight, spectators will experience more than a spectacular show celebrating America's birthday.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    When the rockets and the bombs burst in the air tonight, spectators will experience more than a spectacular show celebrating America's birthday. When their blends of black powder, metals, oxidizers, fuels and other toxic ingredients are ignited, traces...

    Tags: Heart Attack, Amusement and Theme Parks, Respiratory Disease, Music, Environmental Issues

    2. May 13, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  2. Curious about Curiosity? Get scoop on rover at lecture

    The Santa Fe New Mexican
    The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is a nuclear-powered workhorse about the size of a small Jeep. Since it landed Aug. 6, 2012, to great public fanfare back on Earth, the six-wheeled Curiosity has been busily photographing and sampling the planet and...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Satellite Technology, NASA, Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    3. May 9, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  3. DOE pushes to prevent vit plant furloughs

    Tri-City Herald
    Congressional committees have begun considering a Department of Energy request that could prevent furloughs at the Hanford vitrification plant and help meet a key legal deadline for emptying underground waste tanks. DOE's reprogramming request would...

    Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Environmental Issues, Caucasus, Employees

    4. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  4. Udall pushes for LANL assurance

    Albuquerque Journal
    Sen. Tom Udall sought but did not receive assurances about the future of plutonium work at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Wednesday while a Senate appropriations leader assailed the W hite House budget for nuclear weapons. The develop m e nt s came...

    Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Newspaper and Magazine, Nuclear Policy, Defense Equipment

    5. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  5. LANL scholarship fund to benefit 73 students from Northern New Mexico

    The Santa Fe New Mexican
    Seventy-three students from Northern New Mexico are recipients of scholarships through the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund. Funding for the scholarships comes from $411,500 in donations from Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and Los Alamos...

    Tags: Career and Workplace, Awards and Prizes, Pete Domenici, Students, Education

    6. Nov 20, 2012 |Story| Daily American

  6. LTC (Ret.) Douglas Coleman Kline, Middletown, Va.

    LTC (Ret.) Douglas Coleman Kline passed away unexpectedly at his home in Middletown, Va., on Nov.  20, 2012. Born March 1, 1943, in Somerset, he was preceded in death by father George E. Kline and mother Isabel (Coleman) Kline Mumbray. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Diane Speicher Kline. Also survived by sister, Alicia Kline Wetmiller and husband, George, of State College and sister-in-law Nancy Mencke and her husband, Edward, of Kirkland, Wash. He will be greatly missed by his extended family of numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. He was a 1961 graduate of Somerset High School and a 1965 graduate of West Point Military Academy. He earned a master’s degree in physics from the University of Alabama. He served his country in Germany, Vietnam and stateside posts including the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His career in R&D took him to Washington, D.C., where he served in the Army High Energy Laser Systems Project Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO). He retired from the military in 1986. He was called back to serve his country in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he served as the Architecture Integrator for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). Later, he co-founded and was Chief Operating Officer of Systems, Technology, and Science (STSLLC) consulting on national missile defense. Friends received 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Hauger-Zeigler Funeral Home Somerset, where services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday with Rev. J. Matthew Deal officiating.  Memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul’s UCC 202 West Union St. Somerset, PA 15501 or the charity of your choice. www.haugerzeigler.com.
    LTC (Ret.) Douglas Coleman Kline passed away unexpectedly at his home in Middletown, Va., on Nov.  20, 2012. Born March 1, 1943, in Somerset, he was preceded in death by father George E. Kline and mother Isabel (Coleman) Kline Mumbray. He is survived by...

    Tags: Middletown, DARPA, Defense, Missile Systems, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    7. Aug 18, 2012 |Story| CNN

  7. Mars rover set to zap rock with laser, analyze chemicals

    Martian rock #N165, it's your time to shine, or glow, or whatever occurs when a hard substance gets zapped by a laser beam.
    Martian rock #N165, it's your time to shine, or glow, or whatever occurs when a hard substance gets zapped by a laser beam. From about 10 feet away, the Mars rover Curiosity's ChemCam will take aim Saturday night at the hapless three-inch rock. "We...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    8. Aug 5, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic, Hopkins physics professor

    Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic, a Johns Hopkins University physics professor who advised his visiting academic colleagues where they should eat in Baltimore, died of an apparent heart attack July 26 at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., after collapsing at Reagan National Airport. The Canton resident was 55.
    Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic, a Johns Hopkins University physics professor who advised his visiting academic colleagues where they should eat in Baltimore, died of an apparent heart attack July 26 at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.,...

    Tags: Science, Heart Attack, Johns Hopkins University, Recipes, Human Interest

    9. Aug 9, 2012 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  9. Nuclear righteousness

    Robert Koehler
    This is American exceptionalism: "Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." But you have to say it without the doubt, the regret -- the horror -- of Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist extraordinaire and director of the Manhattan Project,...

    Tags: Military Equipment, Studs Terkel, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Explosions, Smithsonian Institution

    10. Jun 1, 2012 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  10. Cannibal Killer: Student Ate Roommate's Brain And Heart, Cops Say

    A Maryland college student who police say admitted killing and then eating parts of his housemate was charged five days before that crime in a separate assault case, court records show.
    KTLA News
    A Maryland college student who police say admitted killing and then eating parts of his housemate was charged five days before that crime in a separate assault case, court records show. Alexander Kinyua, 21, was being held without bail Friday at the...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Bath Salt Drugs, Electronics, Music, FBI

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