Golden Gate Bridge: San Francisco icon celebrates 75 years

Source: Daily Mail - UK

It was built as the country was emerging from the Great Depression, and grew into an icon of America. It was also heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world's longest suspension span and had been built across a strai ...
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Predation predicament - Sun, 27 May 2012 PST

Source: The Spokesman

A deer, left, and a coyote freeze and stare at each other on the edge of a fairway during a golf tournament at Bend, Ore. (Full-size photo)(All photos) Environmentalists and wildlife groups are calling f ...
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Hot Button: The Norris-Todd Act

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal

The Commercial Appeal's May 20 Viewpoint section reported on a Columbia Law Review article by a University of California Berkeley law school professor that criticized the Tennessee legislature's response last year to the dissolu ...
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What Workers Lose by Staying Put

Source: Wall Street Journal

—Dr. Moretti is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. This essay is adapted from his new book, "The New Geography of Jobs," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Americans have historically been an unusually mobile people, ...
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Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

The 30-minute Celebration of Heroes Memorial Day Parade traveled down C Street, passing the Old...- 5:19 pm A Nevada Army National Guard unit took its first step in departing for Afghanistan on Saturday as...- 5:19 pm A Reno Police officer crashed Sat ...
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Source: Maoxian

THE wedding of Mark Zuckerberg to Priscilla Chan last weekend here in the backyard of their $7 million home had all the staging of a carefully orchestrated celebrity event. A publicist for Facebook eagerly offered photos ...
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Employment debate requires closer look

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Scott Walker has it all figured out. Tom Barrett does too. The rest of us can only duck and cover as the gubernatorial candidates lay down a cross-fire of conflicting economic data and carpet bomb the state with political rhetoric. But at ...
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Golden Gate Bridge is prepared for 75th birthday celebration

Source: Los Angeles Times

The Golden Gate Bridge is getting a little sparkle for its 75th birthday. Starting Sunday, remotely operated mirrors on top of the bridge’s iconic towers will flash narrow beams of reflected sunlight all around the San Francisco Bay in an i ...
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Golden Gate Bridge turns 75

Source: FOX Sports

The Golden Gate Bridge is getting a little sparkle for its 75th birthday. Starting Sunday, remotely operated mirrors on top of the bridge’s iconic towers will flash narrow beams of reflected sunlight all around the San Francisco Bay ...
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