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KBR wins contract despite criminal probe of deaths 

WASHINGTON -- Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under...

KBR nets contract despite electrocutions inquiry 

By Kimberly Hefling

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON

Defense contractor KBR Inc., which is under criminal...

Technically, I Was Dead 

A reporter, wounded in Iraq, fights to keep people from looking away. It’s hard to shake the whole “I almost died” thing. Put...

Bearing Witness 

AFRICA Wearing a fierce gaze and his "HIV POSITIVE" faded red T-shirt, Winstone Zulu came right out and asked Toronto's Globe and Mail Africa...

Sea change for top Scottish chef forced to prepare banquet afloat 

Byline: Fergus Sheppard media correspondent THEY were hardly normal cooking conditions for Scotland's first Michelin-starred chef. But Martin...

100 Years Ago in The American Ornithologists' Union 

The first correspondence in the 1906 volume of The Auk is between Ernst Hartert, the author of a recent book on birds of the Palaearctic region...

100 Years Ago in The American Ornithologists' Union 

The lead article in the 1906 issue (Auk 23: 186-188) was "List of the Birds of Louisiana" by George E. Beyer, Andrew Allison, and Henry H. Kopman....

Black carbon and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from vehicles in the United States-Mexico border region: pilot study.(TECHNICAL PAPER) 

ABSTRACT The investigators developed a system to measure black carbon (BC) and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission...

Fillies juggle lineup to take run at Fremd.(Sports) 

Byline: Kimberly Pohl Daily Herald Correspondent The Barrington girls tennis team does not take losing lightly. So, as a result of the...

Surprise: BG wins East.(Sports) 

Byline: Kimberly Pohl Daily Herald Correspondent Take an underachieving group of girls, give them a new coach and a fresh attitude, and you've...