Government documents obtained by The Associated Press show extensive efforts since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants from Plum Island. The 840-acre island _ located 100 miles east of Manhattan _ was the site of top-secret Army germ warfare research and decades of studies of dangerous animal diseases.
Some environmentalists remain concerned about the secrecy …
* Clendenin is in his second season as the girls basketball headcoach at Buffalo High School. n A former player at Buffalo, Clendeninserved as a boys assistant coach for several seasons under ChuckElkins * Clendenin has coached the Buffalo girls to a 5-2 record thisseason with their only losses to Wahama and Class AA No. 1 Winfield.The …
A 13-year-old boy out deer hunting with his father had his hat shot off his head but wasn't injured.
Jeffrey Trepanier, 32, called the sheriff's office Monday to report someone shot the hat off his son's head while they hunted on public lands just north of Theresa.
"That was way too close for comfort," said Dodge County Sheriff's Deputy Chief Blaine Lauersdorf. "We searched the area and where unable to determine where the shot came from."
Lauersdorf said the incident only …
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Tobias Rehberger
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SINCE THE BEGINNING of his career, German artist Tobias Rehberger has made the creative input of others integral to his practice. He has constructed living-room-like spaces based on his friends' notes and sketches for a "relaxed and meditative environment" (for the project Fragments of Their Pleasant Spaces [In My Fashionable Version], realized first in 1996 and again in 1999); once he even arranged for craftsmen in Thailand to make full-size, functional versions of high-end cars on the basis only of rough pencil sketches he provided (Nana, 2000). More recently, Rehberger built a thirty-six-foot-long boat based on one constructed in …
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department will speed up warnings about contaminated meat in the future, officials said Thursday, as they sought to quell criticism of an 18-day delay in seeking the recall of millions of pounds of tainted ground beef.
Briefing reporters, department officials acknowledged that they knew as early as Sept. 7 that frozen hamburger patties could be contaminated after preliminary tests indicated the E. coli bacteria strain O157:H7.
They said it was impossible to seek a recall without conducting a more sophisticated test to confirm the original results, but said they would reevaluate what USDA can do better to warn the public sooner.
"Let …
The first visitors allowed into the Statue of Liberty's crown in nearly eight years made the arduous climb Saturday on an Independence Day journey laden with symbolism of freedom, national pride _ and for one couple, romance.
Aaron Weisinger, 26, got down on one knee on the crown's small floor, pulled out a diamond ring and proposed to his girlfriend, Erica Breder. Stunned, she whispered an immediate yes.
"To propose in the crown was perfect," the 25-year-old Breder said later.
Cheering the Walnut Creek, Calif., couple, fellow visitors also felt the gravity of the occasion.
"I feel the Statue of Liberty represents global …
