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With folks forgoing vacations, Hyco Lake, 10 miles north of Roxboro, was a busier place this summer. It's a man-made lake that actually serves a business purpose. The south end of Hyco Lake feeds cooling water to a massive power plant owned by Progress Energy. The plant employs 268 people and generates up to 2,425 MW of electricity. In January, just after he was laid off, Whitfield called human resources at Progress to see about a job. The Roxboro power plant employs six supply-chain analysts, says Harry Sideris, the plant manager, but he doesn't need...
...existed for as long as seven years, serious designing and planning only began during the last academic year and construction commenced three months ago, according to Bhatt. Despite the seeming delay in propelling the project forward, Doyle said financial constraints did not hamper the project’s progress, which was “right on track.”First-year graduate students already have a separate lounge area for themselves in Jefferson, Bhatt said. The committee is experimenting with the idea of having graduate students hold office hours in the new undergraduate study.Bhatt said she hopes the study...
...relieved and encouraged by this progress in the investigation, but, of course, we must resist the temptation to rush to judgment until a full and fair prosecution of this case brings a just resolution." - Yale president Richard Levin, in a statement to the Yale community about Clark's arrest, Sept...
...work in progress," hedged Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu...
...giving up the protection offered by the missile shield is not particularly difficult for the U.S. - for the simple reason that the shield doesn't offer any significant protection. The system that would have been deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic was in every sense a work in progress whose testing had not yet proved any real-world capacity to deal with a hostile missile threat. In that sense, the missile "shield" was every bit as hypothetical as the Iranian missile threat against which it was ostensibly deployed...