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Tree Thuggers

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Apr 8,2013 - Concert promoter Charles Attal claimed he’s the victim of a “witch hunt” after he cut down several dozen juniper trees on his property in West Lake Hills, Texas. City officials said he broke the law, which forbids removing any tree

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The Two-Wheeling Life

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Apr 1,2013 - A bicyclists association that promotes safety objected to a measure in the Maryland House of Delegates that would require all cyclists to wear helmets.

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Future in the Past

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 25,2013 - Outbox, a new startup, charges people $4.99 a month to digitize their mail. A driver, known as an “unpostman,” stops at subscribers’ homes three times a week to collect letters, bills, magazines and advertisements

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Addicted to Money

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 18,2013 - She went through her personal fortune of between $40 million and $50 million

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Irony Illustrated

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 11,2013 - University of Louisville police accused Terry J. Davis of shoplifting after surveillance video cameras showed him stealing a textbook and then trying to sell it back to the university bookstore. The book was titled “Resolving Ethical Issues.”

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Why Hunters Need Assault Rifles

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 4,2013 - The agency said the hunters would share equally in the one animal they did shoot

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Carnivore's Revenge

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 25,2013 - Leafy green vegetables cause the most food-borne illnesses in the United States

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Super Outage

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 18,2013 - The power blackout that halted the Super Bowl was caused by an electrical relay installed to prevent a power failure, according to the company that supplied electricity to the Superdome.

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Saving the Twitterverse

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 11,2013 - Since the Library of Congress began archiving Twitter messages in 2010, it has amassed more than 170 billion tweets.

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High-Fi

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 4,2013 - Boeing engineers used sacks of potatoes to solve the problem of spotty signals with in-flight Wi-Fi. The tubers stood in for human passengers because their water content and chemistry absorb and reflect radio-wave signals
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