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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook - Aug 16, 2008
The Mall, home to America's most revered monuments and memorials, needs some serious sprucing up, as The Post has reported ["America's Unkempt Front Yard," front page, June 18]. But we shouldn't forget another national …
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Cleaning Up a National Treasureireport.com » Latest iReports - Aug 15, 2008 Chesapeake Bay Initiative Launched The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest watershed. At seven thousand square miles it supports more than 36 hundred species of plants, fish and animals, with 15 million people … Also tagged: bay, bacteria, oxygen, foundation, siemens, nitrogen, watershed, basin, polluted, phospherous |
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - National News and Headlines - Aug 15, 2008
In the latest sign of trouble in the planet's chemistry, the number of oxygen-starved "dead zones" in coastal waters around the world has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960s, killing fish, crabs and massive …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Maryland - Jul 31, 2008
Charles Deakyne inserted the key into his 37-foot Alberg sailboat's ignition and crossed his fingers. As the key turned, the biggest fear of his shakedown cruise in preparation for the 35th annual Governor's Cup …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jul 28, 2008
ST. MICHAELS, Md. -- Nearly 10 million young oysters have been planted in a protected site in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sports - Jul 27, 2008
When last visited, the U.S. Naval Academy's varsity offshore sailing program was in limbo, having been raised to prominence by one academy superintendent, then nearly struck down by his successor.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Jul 26, 2008
It was not really complicated. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, stood up last Sept. 18 and gave a talk to about 400 students, faculty and friends about some life …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Metro - Jul 24, 2008
A D.C. elementary school will replace asphalt with grass, trees, plants and a fish pond as part of a project to reduce pollution caused by water runoff.
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sports - Jul 20, 2008
Marylanders here on the flat side of the state have an expression for the best of anything. They call it the finest kind, pronounced, "foinest koind."
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csmonitor.com » Innovation - Jul 8, 2008
Move over Rhode Island reds; here come Rhode Island blue crabs. The ocean state’s Narragansett Bay appears to be well on its way to becoming a second Chesapeake Bay biologically. And scientists point the blame at …
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