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Statue of Liberty’s renovated crown to reopen this weekend By Jonathan Allen | Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – The crown of the Statue of Liberty will reopen to the public on Sunday – the 126th anniversary of its dedication – after a year-long renovation to make the New York landmark safer and more accessible to […]

New section of Texas 130 tollway — free until November 11 — opens to public By Ben Wear American-Statesman Staff LOCKHART — The new section of Texas 130 southeast of Austin, already famous because of its highest-in-the-nation 85 mph speed limit, opened Wednesday after a round of speeches from Gov. Rick Perry and other officials […]

Changing Skyline: Brooklyn’s Barclays Center a glam, gritty architectural success   By Inga Saffron Philadelphia Inquirer Architecture Critic NEW YORK – Brooklyn used to be just a place, one of New York’s five boroughs. But in the last few years it has also become a meme, shorthand for conveying all that it means to be […]

The U.S. Army’s secret Cold War experiments on the city of St. Louis By Leisa Zigman I-Team Reporter KSDK 5 NBC  Saint Louis ST. LOUIS – Lisa Martino-Taylor is a sociologist whose life’s work has been to uncover details of the Army’s ultra-secret military experiments carried out in St. Louis and other cities during the 1950s and 60s. She […]

Forbes: What does $126 billion look like? The wealthiest portrait ever taken Randall Lane Forbes What does $126 billion look like? With the picture above, probably the wealthiest portrait ever taken, you now know. This photograph, which graces the cover of the 30th anniversary issue of the Forbes 400,  crowned an incredible event. On June […]

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory- Mars Curiosity will host a media teleconference Wednesday, September 19, 2012 NASA On Sol 42 (Sept. 17, 2012), Curiosity drove about 105 feet (32 meters), toward the east-southeast, bringing the mission’s total driving distance to about 850 feet (259 meters). The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument was used at two […]

Africa’s first smartphone unveiled in Republic of Congo Xinhua BRAZZAVILLE– Verone Mankou, 25, the designer of the first African touch screen, on Thursday unveiled his latest product, a smartphone which is the very first of its kind to be designed in Africa. The smartphone which was christened “elikia”, meaning “hope” in the local Lingala language, […]

FDA approves 4-in-1 HIV combination pill The Associated Press   WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a new anti-HIV pill that combines four medicines to combat the virus that causes AIDS. The agency approved Gilead Sciences’ Stribild as a once-a-day treatment to control HIV in adults who have not previously been […]

NASA: Curiosity rover touches down on Mars on Monday, August 6   NASA With less than three days to go before touchdown on the Red Planet, Curiosity remains in good health, with all systems operating as expected. Given the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft’s consistent and stable course, today the project decided that the planned Trajectory […]

How important was “The Star-Spangled Banner” when it became the National Anthem in 1931 Dilemma X Today, it might seem shocking what was not the major news story on March 4, 1931 or on March 5, 1931 and that was “The Star Spangled Banner”. Many American newspapers published articles announcing that the country now had an official National Anthem. But, these articles […]