At Mining Championship, Winning Might Mean a Job
By JESSE McKINLEY
The International Intercollegiate Mining Competition drew competitors from near and far.
Ursinus College, where Salinger spent a semester in 1938, has long sought a way to trade on this literary association, with mixed success.
The International Intercollegiate Mining Competition drew competitors from near and far.
Twelve years after M.I.T. sought to end discrimination against female faculty members, a study shows progress has come with a new perception — a belief that women are given an unfair advantage.
Gregory Jaczko, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, said American nuclear plants were less vulnerable than those in Japan because of steps ordered after Sept. 11, 2001.
The suit, brought on behalf of people who were at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, will weigh whether the hospital’s owner should be held accountable for deaths related to the disaster.
While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows that a far greater threat may be posed by a more familiar antagonist: the house cat.
Morton Sobell, who was convicted with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951, now says he helped copy hundreds of pages of secret Air Force documents in 1948.
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Video and diagram showing the final moments of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.
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For all the talk about the fighting in Congress over the federal budget, it may be nothing compared with what is coming next.
Competition at the 33rd International Intercollegiate Mining Competition is not as easy as it looks.
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