Resident protests highway committee's ve [ Morris Daily Herald ] Jul 13, 2008  Benton Street resident Tadd Nelson claims the county made a discriminatory decision on his request for a double culvert system on his two-acre lot. Read More ...

Recent Original Stories [ New Mobile Computing ] Jul 13, 2008  A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS . It was pointed out that the file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being reverse engineered. Read More ...

Thai PM vows to amend charter, more prot [ Reuters via Yahoo! News ] Jul 13, 2008  Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who lost two ministers after tough court rulings, said on Sunday he would rewrite the army-designed constitution, a move likely to intensify street protests to oust him. Read More ...

Genetically engineered crops continue to [ Grand Island Independent ] Jul 10, 2008  While genetically engineered crops remain a source of controversy worldwide, Nebraska and U.S. farmers have aggressively adapted to these new crop varieties since 1996, according to a recent report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Read More ...

Visiting airport possibilities [ Saint George Spectrum ] Jul 13, 2008  ST. GEORGE - In three days, they took nine flights and traveled about 5,000 miles to reach a few specific destinations. As St. George City Councilman Jon Pike put it, they set out to learn 'what works and what doesn't work.' Read More ...

Right as rain [ Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ] Jul 13, 2008  From Denise Kendrick's front porch, she can see the stone wall that now protects her home from being inundated if the St. Joe River were to overflow its banks as it did in 1913, shortly before the house was built. Read More ...

Bold Mediterranean summit opens diplomat [ International Herald Tribune ] Jul 13, 2008  Leaders of 43 nations with total of nearly 800 million inhabitants inaugurated a new Union of the Mediterranean on Sunday, designed to bring the northern and southern countries that ring the sea closer together. Read More ...

Station site pumps up heat at beach [ Westerly Sun ] Jul 13, 2008  Misquamicut residents Bill Stax, left, and Jeanne Garvey Stax, look at a pump station image including a tree buffer. Sun photo/Susannah H. Snowden MISQUAMICUT -- Residents say relocating the Fisherman's Avenue pump station would be worth the expected wait. Read More ...

Input on drainage solicited - Public mee [  ] Public meeting, 2008  The city of Johnson City tonight will host a well-timed public meeting concerning downtown drainage. Read More ...

Preview Council's plate is full on Tuesd [ San Marcos Daily Record ] Jul 13, 2008  First, the formalities. Then it's down to business for the San Marcos City Council on Tuesday. Read More ...

2nd Tanker arrives for clean up; traffic [ WATE 6 Knoxville ] Jul 13, 2008  A special tanker truck designed specifically for containing hazardous material arrived from New Jersey around 7 A.M. Sunday to help clean up a hazardous mess along I-40 near Rockwood.  Read More ...

Leumi completes environmentally friendly [ Globes Online ] Jul 13, 2008  The Tel Aviv office has been converted to comply with Standard 5281. Read More ...

Album Liam Finn, I'll Be Lightning, Tran [ Independent ] Jul 12, 2008  Considering that he wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, produced, engineered and even self-timed the cover photo, the only surprise here is that Liam Finn has not written his own reviews. Read More ...

Has BMW Lost Its Edge and Become Too Con [ AutoSpies.com ] Jul 11, 2008  Has BMW Lost Its Edge and Become Too Conservative in Their Designs? Read More ...

Germany's Pfleiderer to invest $228 mln [ Russian Information Agency Novosti ] Jul 13, 2008  VELIKY NOVGOROD, July 13 - Pfleiderer AG, a Germany-based producer of engineered wood products, will invest 144 million euros <$227.5 million> in building a new fiberboard plant in northwestern Russia, a company source said Sunday. Read More ...

The wrong tools to tackle rising inflati [ Financial Times ] Jul 13, 2008  I remember a popular sticker in Germany during the 1970s, designed to ridicule the opponents of atomic energy. It read: 'Nuclear power? No thanks! We get electricity from our power sockets.' Read More ...

Menon in Kabul to review security for In [ Hindustan Times ] Jul 13, 2008  Amid threats of fresh attacks on Indian assets in Afghanistan following the deadly suicide bombing at its embassy, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon arrived in Kabul on Sunday to discuss ways to revamp security to thwart designs of the Taliban and its mentor ISI. Read More ...

Agawam OKs drainage fund [ The Republican ] Jul 10, 2008  AGAWAM - The City Council has appropriated $31,250 to upgrade a drainage system at School Street Park where flooding occurred earlier this year. 'It was something that really needed to be addressed, regardless of how the situation came about,' councilor Robert E. Rossi said yesterday. Read More ...