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Sci-Tech: De-icing nanotechnology

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:29:31 -0500

(NECN) - In Sci-Tech Today, the major ice storm that crippled New England last year. The area is used to ice storms, freezing rain coating tree limbs, power lines and roads. But a new anti-icing technology may make ice storms more bearable...

Mosaic News - 10/20/08: World News From The Middle East

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:31:42 -0500

The Peabody Award-winning daily compilation of television news reports from the Middle East, including Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, the Palestinian Authority, Iraq and Iran.TRANSCRIPT:Concrete Barriers Change Iraq’s LandscapeAl Jazeera TV, QatarPresenter, MALE, #1According to Iraqi police, two Iraqis were killed and 7 others were injured in an explosion of a road-side bomb in the Mashtal neighborhood, in Eastern Baghdad. The police added that the explosion targeted a small vehicle transporting employees of the Iraqi Housing Ministry.Presenter, FEMALE, #1We continue with Iraq, whose residents suffer from the spread of cement walls surrounding their neighborhoods and completely isolating them, particularly in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.Presenter, MALE, #1Security authorities plan on erecting more walls, to secure their grip over the security situation, which is described as brittle.Reporter, MALE, #2The Iraqis wish that this cement was erected vertically to build sky scrapers. They hear about billions of dollars allocated to rebuilding campaigns in their country, but they do not see anything tangible. The large cement piles serve another purpose in the security procedures, away from rebuilding. This concrete encloses large areas of Iraqi neighborhoods.Guest, FEMALE, #2The whole area: the concrete barriers block the roads; they put them everywhere, and connect one wall to the next. It isn’t right!Guest, MALE, #3It’s a blockade-not a wall! We’ve been under it for thirteen years before, and now we have another one. We’ve had three rounds of blockades: a wall, the markets, enclosures, benzene, food…Reporter, MALE, #2Wherever they turn, the people of Baghdad are faced with cement barriers separating the neighborhoods and dividing communities. Some people make fun about this saying that a person will soon need a passport to go from one neighborhood to the next.Guest, MALE, #4We need to pressure the Americans and the government to remove the wall and make openings in...

Take 2: Globe review of 'Bad Lieutenant'

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:58:19 -0500

(Boston Globe) Nicolas Cage delivers a stark, stirring performance in this re-imagining of the Abel Ferrara cult classic.

Bomb suspect family pledges cooperation

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:58:21 -0500

Dec. 28: As international investigators searched on Monday for more clues in connection to bomb plot suspect Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, his family in Nigeria pledged full cooperation and called the young man’s behavior "completely out of character and a very recent development." CNBC's Erin Burnett reports.

COBRA plan subsidies expire

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:56:53 -0500

(NECN: Peter Howe, Smithfield, R.I.) - It’s a painful new blow for thousands of jobless New Englanders: A sharp jump in their health insurance costs as a temporary benefit under the federal stimulus bill expired Tuesday. Among those shocke...

Barn Fire in Colonie

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:41:48 -0500

A barn has been completely burned in Colonie.

'Completely Out of Character'

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:26:28 -0500

Father baffled by bizarre disappearance of son

Obama’s War Strategy

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:56:23 -0400

White House officials say esident Obama’s strategy will be to defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan, while downplaying the need to completely eliminate the Taliban in Afghanistan. Chip Reid reports.