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Amid ‘Exploding’ Houses and a Wave of Mud, a Maternal Instinct Flared

by Myrna Posted on April 9, 2014

When a landslide swept down on Oso, Wash., last month, it propelled Amanda Skorjanc and her infant son about 600 feet, with the couch they had been sitting on swept along with them. Original link:  Amid ‘Exploding’ Houses and a Wave of Mud, a Maternal Instinct Flared ; ;Related ArticlesWashington Landslide Deaths Rise to 33How to Think Like the Dutch in a Post-Sandy WorldOp-Ed Contributors: Global Warming Scare Tactics ;

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Even New York Drivers Wowed by a White, Winged Commuter

by Myrna Posted on April 9, 2014

An odd moment in which a white pigeon races commuters on a New York highway seems a little less odd after some Googling. See original article –  Even New York Drivers Wowed by a White, Winged Commuter ; ;Related ArticlesShowtime Series Aims to Engage Sleepy Public on Global Warming With Celebrity GuidesOther Voices: Earth Institute’s Steven Cohen Seeks a Post-Hysterical Approach to Climate ProgressThe Uphill Climate Challenge in ‘Years of Living Dangerously’ ;

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America’s top 10 most endangered rivers in 2014

by Myrna Posted on April 9, 2014

If a country is a body, rivers are its arteries through which vital blood flows. We must revive our waterways before more damage is done. Credit –  America’s top 10 most endangered rivers in 2014 ; ; ;

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Washington Landslide Deaths Rise to 33

by Myrna Posted on April 7, 2014

Ten people are still listed as missing since the March 22 landslide in Oso, Wash., north of Seattle. Original link: Washington Landslide Deaths Rise to 33 ; ;Related ArticlesSteelhead Drive Is Gone After Mudslide, Along With Many Lives Lived on ItDeath Toll Rises to 29 in Washington State LandslideAnadarko Pays Billions in Settling Toxins Case ;

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Cost Among Hurdles Slowing New York City’s Plan to Phase Out Dirty Heating Oil

by Myrna Posted on April 6, 2014

Three years into a four-year plan to end use of No. 6 heating oil, a heavy pollutant, in 10,000 city buildings, barely more than half have switched to cleaner oil. Continue reading here: Cost Among Hurdles Slowing New York City’s Plan to Phase Out Dirty Heating Oil ; ;Related ArticlesAnadarko Pays Billions in Settling Toxins CaseNational Briefing | Washington: E.P.A. Faulted for Failure to Report RisksNational Briefing | South: North Carolina: Judge Denies Shield for Duke Records ;

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National Briefing | South: North Carolina: Judge Denies Shield for Duke Records

by Myrna Posted on April 4, 2014

Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway on Friday denied Duke Energy’s motion seeking to shield records in a civil suit related to groundwater pollution from 33 coal ash dumps in the state during a separate federal criminal investigation. View original article:  National Briefing | South: North Carolina: Judge Denies Shield for Duke Records ; ;Related ArticlesAnadarko Pays Billions in Settling Toxins CaseNational Briefing | Washington: E.P.A. Faulted for Failure to Report RisksSteelhead Drive Is Gone After Mudslide, Along With Many Lives Lived on It ;

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Program Looks to Give Bees a Leg (or Six) Up

by Myrna Posted on April 2, 2014

In California’s Central Valley, researchers are trying to find assortments of bee-friendly plants that local farmers and ranchers can easily grow. View original post here:   Program Looks to Give Bees a Leg (or Six) Up ; ;Related ArticlesProgram Looks to Give Bees a Leg Up (or Six)National Briefing | Washington: E.P.A. Faulted for Failure to Report RisksSteelhead Drive Is Gone After Mudslide, Along With Many Lives Lived on It ;

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I Ate Bugs – And So Should You: 9 Reasons To Be An Entomophagist

by HollyA59bq Posted on March 28, 2014

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I Ate Bugs – And So Should You: 9 Reasons To Be An Entomophagist

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Former Queens Fort Revamped for Work on Ecology

by Myrna Posted on March 27, 2014

Fort Totten Park has a laboratory and sleeping quarters for visiting scientists who are happy to get their fingernails dirty in urban soil. Excerpt from:  Former Queens Fort Revamped for Work on Ecology ; ;Related ArticlesNew Mexico Reaps Pecan Bounty as Other States StruggleMost Chinese Cities Fail Pollution Standard, China SaysDanish Zoo Reviled in the Death of a Giraffe Kills 4 Lions ;

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The Whimsical Fascists of Wes Anderson’s "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

by JCNCharole Posted on March 14, 2014

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Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel is very, very Wes Anderson—which is to say that the colors pop, the quirky humor abounds, and your emotions are sneakily toyed with. Few directors have the kind of total control over the way their actors talk, move, and express quite like Anderson does. Anderson’s singular style and eccentricities make virtually everything in his films (even harrowing elements such as suicide and war) oddly whimsical. And in The Grand Budapest Hotel, a Nazi analog is made into something of a goofy villain.

The comedy is set primarily in the 1930s in Zubrowka, a fictional central-European republic that has endured European totalitarianism and world war (the movie was shot on location in Germany, but the setting, sounds, and visuals were, in Anderson’s words, “a pastiche of the greatest hits of…Eastern Europe”). The core of the narrative (starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Harvey Keitel, and several Anderson regulars) is a murder mystery, but the backdrop routinely advances to the fore as the grip of a fascist party grows more and more clenched. “Part of why I feel the impulse to reimagine World War II rather than just do it is because it’s been done so many times before,” Anderson told NPR.

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