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Park raving mad: The junk science behind off-street parking quotas
Off-street parking quotas are on the books just about everywhere. But the specific numbers are based on little or nothing.
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Fracking boom could lead to housing bust
While the media and enviros have focused on shale drilling’s potential to poison the water and air, they've overlooked its potential to poison the real estate market.
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Meet the singing, anti-fracking nuns
In the rolling green hills of Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto are leading a grassroots movement against the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline.
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The people are hungry: The link between food and revolution
Rising food prices are one of the hidden causes of Egypt's conflict. And they'll keep fueling discontent until we come up with a better system.
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This is what a 37-year-old Twinkie looks like
Science teacher Robert Bennatti put this Twinkie on top of the intercom box in his classroom back in 1976. Today, it's still going strong.
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The White House goes solar — again
The move comes three decades after Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House roof, and three years after the Obama administration promised to do the same.
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Your favorite local beer might not be local at all
That Hawaiian beer that brings you a taste of the islands and scent of plumeria on the breeze? Um ... it might be made in Oregon.
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Australian floods lowered worldwide sea levels
Scientists have been puzzled by a drop in worldwide sea levels in 2011. New research suggests that deluges in Australia were largely responsible.
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Swedish pig has one month to get a girlfriend
This pig will be confiscated if he doesn't find a mate. Can some kindly spider please spin him an OKCupid profile?
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Why this year’s Gulf dead zone is twice as big as last year’s
It's the fertilizer, stupid -- and runoff from factory animal farms. But it doesn't have to be that way.
