Monday, July 28, 2014

Rust Devastates Guatemala's Prime Coffee Crop And Its Farmers

I found the following story on the NPR iPhone App

Rust Devastates Guatemala's Prime Coffee Crop And Its Farmers
by Carrie Kahn

NPR - July 28, 2014

Outside the northern Guatemalan town of Olopa, near the Honduran border, farmer Edwin Fernando Diaz Viera stands in the middle of his tiny coffee field. He says it was his lifelong dream to own a farm here. The area is renowned for producing some of the world's richest Arabica, the smooth-tasting beans beloved by specialty coffee brewers....

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/07/28/335293974/rust-devastates-guatemalas-prime-coffee-crop-and-its-farmers?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app



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Alice Coachman dies; first African American woman to win Olympic gold

Alice Coachman dies; first African American woman to win Olympic gold
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-alice-coachman-davis-20140717-story.html


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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Decide Patent Cases in Courts With Expertise in Patents - The Wall Street Journal.

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Decide Patent Cases in Courts With Expertise in Patents

http://online.wsj.com/articles/decide-patent-cases-in-courts-with-expertise-in-patents-letters-to-the-editor-1405457529

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How to Spark Another 'Great Moderation' - The Wall Street Journal.

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal.

How to Spark Another 'Great Moderation'

http://online.wsj.com/articles/john-taylor-how-to-spark-another-great-moderation-1405469227

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Monday, June 23, 2014

AP Mobile: Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90

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Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar inventor, dies at 90

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DOVER, Del. (AP) - Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty, he owes his life to a woman in Delaware by the name of Stephanie Kwolek.

Kwolek, who died Wednesday at 90, was a DuPont Co. chemist who in 1965 invented Kevlar, the light...

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