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On: Mon:Feb:18
Mud, muck and misery
On Feb. 26, 1972 memories of death, destruction, mud, muck and misery on Buffalo Creek were seared into my brain when a wall of black water kiled 125 people and left 4,000 more homeless. Monday...
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On: Fri:Jan:17
Surviving a fall into grace
revised March 9 In my line of work I've been around chaos and havoc most of my life. It seems pretty normal. Growing up in the coalfields of southern West Virginia it was all around me. At my first...
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On: Wed:Jun:16
Falcon 9 launches 2 satellites; landing fails
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched two communications satellites at 10:29 a.m. EDT Wednesday, but failed to land the rocket's first stage booster on a barge in the...
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On: Thu:May:16
Shepard took first step toward Mars
One of my early grade school heroes, Alan B. Sheppard, had the right stuff decades ago. Shepard left the bonds of earth on May 5, 1961, 55 years ago.
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On: Thu:Apr:16
Manned space flight at risk
I reported about a rocket launch for the first time on Nov. 22, 1989 from an unlikely spot, the rooftop of a tall building in downtown Raleigh, N.C. NASA has no launch facilities in North Carolina It...
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On: Thu:Feb:16
Ed Mitchell, 6th man on the moon, dies
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The small exclusive fraternity of astronauts that walked on the moon grew even smaller with the death of Edgar Mitchell on Feb 4., the eve of the 45th anniversary of his...
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On: Wed:Jan:16
2015 shattered temp records: NOAA
WASHINGTON -- Scientist say 2015 temperatures on Earth were the warmest in recorded history, shattering a record set only a year before. It was the third year in a row for temperatures to climb.
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On: Sun:Jan:16
Hatfield funeral photo, a moment of history
Reporters angle for a quote to find meaning as they witness an event. Often they don't realize the event is just a rough draft to history. The importance is often what happened, not what was said...
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On: Sun:Oct:15
10 years ago: Sony infects millions of computers
Sony Pictures Entertainment gained truck loads of publicity portraying it as a victim after its computers were breached by hackers in November 2014. The company has often resorted computer hacking...
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