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Streetlevel: War of the Wines in South Brooklyn?
03.09.2008 12:27
brownstoner.com
We reported last week that Slope was getting a new wine shop on 5th and a new wine bar on 7th. Now an existing wine shop, Windsor Wines will relocate to Windsor Terrace's main drag, Prospect Park West. Turns out this beautiful stained glass from Brooklyn's prime soda fountain days was languishing beneath signs at the pet store on this spot, 216 Prospect Park West, for many years. Windsor Wine and Spirits owner, John Lenartz, plans to keep the facade intact. But he's still not sure when he's opening. "It's all liquor authority-related. We're in the process of all that," he says. Fingers are crossed for late September.
New York
Construction & Real Estate
GM sales drop 20.3% despite some star performers
03.09.2008 12:27
freep.com
General Motors Corp.'s August sales dropped 20.3% to 307,285 total vehicles as sales of its large trucks continued to drop in the face of higher gas prices and a weakened U.S. economy.
USA
Autonews
Ford, GM, Toyota sales fall as auto slump persists
03.09.2008 12:19
washingtonpost.com
DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday its U.S. sales fell 26.5 percent in August, as the struggling automaker's results _ even worse than July's dismal figures _ showed that the U.S. auto sales slump may not have bottomed out.
USA
Machine-Building Industry
Strange clouds spotted at the edge of Earth's atmosphere
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
A weirdly wonderful sight appeared to astronauts aboard the International Space Station this summer thin blue clouds hovering at the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and the void.
USA
Astronomy
Huge ice sheet breaks loose in Canada
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
A massive 19-square-mile ice shelf in Canada's northern Arctic has broken away from Ellesmere Island, surprising scientists who say the floating ice shelf is another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier.
USA
Astronomy
How to build lunar homes from moon dirt
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
Since many of the tried and true tools we use on Earth will be impossible to bring, some scientists are hard at work inventing from scratch the machines we'll need to make life possible on the moon.
USA
Astronomy
Experts fear firefly populations are blinking out
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
Yet another much-loved species imperiled by humankind? The evidence is entirely anecdotal, but there are anecdotes galore that firefly populations are blnking out.
USA
Astronomy
Earth's oxygen is leaking into space (but don't worry yet)
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
The Earth is leaking oxygen. But it is nothing to worry about, scientists say, until our planet is much older and much hotter.
USA
Astronomy
La. assesses storm damage to protective wetlands
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
Louisiana officials still were conducting flyovers and assessing damage to the miles of natural cypress marshes in Gustav's path, but the storm likely destroyed acres of valuable wetlands, said Garret Graves, head of Gov. Bobby Jindal's office of coastal activities.
USA
Astronomy
Hurricane Hunter aircraft fly into the belly of the beast
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
A reporter from The (Fort Myers, Fla.) News-Press accompanied a crew into Hurricane Gustav.
USA
Astronomy
Report: NASA studies extending shuttle to 2015
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
NASA's staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.
USA
Astronomy
Report says China offered widespread help on nukes
03.09.2008 10:31
usatoday.com
China gave Pakistan the blueprint for an atomic bomb, testing the finished product in 1990, and unveiled a sophisticated nuclear weapons complex to visiting U.S. scientists in the last decade, report former weapons lab officials.
USA
Astronomy
Brazil's ancient cultures were surprisingly urban
03.09.2008 10:30
usatoday.com
Once, about 1,500 years ago, an essentially urban culture existed in what is now jungle settled by scattered tribes, researchers report.
USA
Astronomy
Research 'reprograms' pancreas cells in mice
03.09.2008 10:30
usatoday.com
A team of biologists has turned mouse pancreas tissue into specialized cells, the same ones that go missing in juvenile diabetes. The study opens a new avenue to "regenerative medicine," in which physicians remake patient cells into tissues that can be used to treat diabetes and heart and brain ailments.
USA
Astronomy
Purdue reprimands fusion scientist for misconduct
03.09.2008 10:30
usatoday.com
Purdue University on Wednesday reprimanded an Indian-born scientist who has been accused of falsifying claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.
USA
Astronomy
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