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October 14, 2008 Tuesday
Mysterious fire engulfs kishtwar village
News Agency of Kashmir - Jammu Tawi,Jammu and Kashmir,India
Kishtwar, Oct 12 (NAK): Seventy nine residential houses, fifty eight cowsheds, eight shops and a local Masjid was reduced to ashes in mysterious fire,
Zimbabwe: Let's Consider Low-Cost Housing
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Adobe - which is made of extra-large bricks moulded from a clay, sand and organic fibre mix -- and rammed earth properly stabilised with a modest admixture ...
Environmentally-Friendly Earth Homes
By admin
Rammed earth homes may have over 18-inch, thick walls that are made from a comcination of dirt, sand, cement and water. Energy conservative, rammed earth homes have the appearance of bungalow-style charm and help keep the house warm in
Plans for major overhaul of Whittier Narrows nature preserve stir ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Supporters say as many as 24000 students a year could be bused to the center -- a "discovery center" designed to showcase green technology -- to view ...
University course signals rehabilitation of China's fengshui
Xinhua - China
"Fengshui contains too many mysterious elements which separate it from science." Ma Wei said fengshui was not superstition. .
Jerry Ray Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for Tennessee
Southeast Farm Press - USA
He has also invested in a hay bale accumulator that allows him to collect and stack the hay and straw bales without physically touching them. .
The reckoning: How the global meltdown will affect Scotland
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The housing market is already deep in the doldrums with 20% discounts commonplace and three-quarters of homes for sale in the south-east of Scotland failing
Bargain shopper Buffett fills his basket with vintage deals
guardian.co.uk - UK
... of the assets put up for sale by insurance giant AIG, which is having to break itself up to repay the government following its $85bn bail-out - indeed, ...
Diefenbunker debunked
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
A half-hour drive west of downtown Ottawa, this underground lair was the ultimate in nuclear survival. Once the most secret facility in the country,
Mysterious Cave Houses World's Largest Crystals
ABC News - USA
An elite team of scientists journeyed 1000 feet underground to reveal the world's latest natural wonder and unlock the mystery of how these megalith marvels ...
A guided tour of the Rizupes sand
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
However, the cave floor consists of a fine, soft sand, imprinted with human footprints. The Rizupes sand caves are the longest underground cave system in ...
Exploring new depths in the Yucatan
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
... like icicles hanging down from the cave top or pushing up from the floor - in the dry parts of the cavern systems. Openings into the underground rivers ...
Homeowners turning to turbines for power
KING5.com - Seattle,WA,USA
A roof-mounted wind turbine she recently installed on top of her house to help produce energy. "I'm going to save some money of off our electric bill," she
October 7, 2008 Tuesday
Main Street residents clutch vanishing American dream
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
We who hail from the clichd Main Street in America vacillate between being worried sick, and angry as hell. Lately, our abiding apprehension comes from ...
Convenience stores vanishing in puff of smoke
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada
By TED WOLOSHYN There was a time, a long period of time, when the corner store was a financial safe haven for those wishing to start anew in this free
Hotels and offices to install IAP monitoring systems
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
He said that one of the major indoor air pollutants was carbon monoxide (CO), one of the most acutely toxic indoor air contaminants, which was a colourless, ...
Mystery explosions in Dillsburg area were quake tremors - The York ...
Oct 6, 2008 ... Mystery explosions in Dillsburg area were quake tremors. ... The mystery of a series of what residents believed were explosions in Carroll ...
The political impact of California's housing meltdown
guardian.co.uk - UK
But nothing I had seen or read prepared me for six houses for sale in a .4 mile stretch of a street, two of them now owned by banks.
Woods Hole geodesic dome to be restored
Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA
By Joe Burns The Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome in Woods Hole will be restored to its former glory as part of the proposed Wise Living at Woods Hole ...
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