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...team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is working with the University of California at San Diego to design and power small sensors to place on bridges - or on any piece of infrastructure for that matter - that would measure structural problems like strain, deflection, cracks, corrosion or the loosening of bolts, says Chuck Farrar, a civil engineer at the Los Alamos lab. Once the sensors identify a hazardous change in the structure's vitals, such as its dimensions or temperature, they would transmit the information to a computer, which would analyze the data to figure out what went wrong...
...study’s authors expressed great surprise at the intense press coverage their paper had garnered in a wide range of media outlets ranging from national and international newspapers to late-night TV. Stories about the study ran in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and was remarked about on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...
...rent-a-pup store opened its doors six months ago in San Diego when FlexPetz started rescuing dogs from animal shelters and renting them out for as little as a few hours or as long as a week. The company is doing so well it opened a branch in Los Angeles in June, and will be in San Francisco and New York City by September...
...towns in the U.S. (nor, likely, the world) that send letters off with the postmark “Kitchen.” I’ve spent the summer making various small trips, none of which was truly postcard-worthy on its own. Yet, as wide a spread as Los Angeles, New York, and my home base of Boston might be, the kitchens I cooked in seemed an appropriately singular subject for my missive...
...reinforced at all levels, especially around the Zocalo or main plaza, the international airport and the Pemex installations just outside Oaxaca city. Nevertheless, despite the increase in police and army forces, a demonstration by 200 women in support of the left-wing political opposition group APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca or Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca) took place as scheduled. As the elections approached, there have been daily marches, loud public denunciations of the state and federal government, revolutionary banners in support of APPO and the EPR as well as graffiti on the centuries old walls...