Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:41 PM EST
Chobani is making Greek yogurt as fast as Americans are eating it.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:56 PM EST
Scientists studying white nose syndrome in bats estimate the fungal ailment has killed at least 5.7 million bats in 16 states and Canada, providing alarming new numbers about the scope of its decimation.
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Mon Jan 9, 2012 1:47 PM EST
Production has started at a $4.6 billion state-of-the-art computer chip plant in upstate New York built to compete in the constantly evolving semiconductor market and to stimulate the region's economy.
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:28 PM EST
RedFarm is a trendy Chinese restaurant full of quirks, like a menu featuring Pac-Man dumplings and pastrami egg rolls and a rustic decor more Americana than Mandarin.
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Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:10 PM EST
The same tunnel that delivers water to millions of faucets in New York City is blamed for leaving homes in this upstate town in soggy misery.
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Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:01 AM EST
Denny Johnston received more than a pension and a handshake when he retired from the Washington state corrections system in 2009.
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Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:31 AM EDT
Occupy Wall Street, meet Occupy the Bar.
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Wed Oct 5, 2011 2:18 PM EDT
The floodwaters of Tropical Storm Irene that ripped up roads and washed into living rooms across Vermont took a dramatic toll on quaint old villages — filling white, steepled churches with muck and knocking 19th-century clapboard houses off their foundations.
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Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:55 PM EDT
In a story Sept. 30, The Associated Press reported that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation had made 125 visits to sites of waterway remediation after the remnants of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee hit New York. The 125 visits were in the eastern Adirondacks; the state has made 1,300 visits statewide.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:49 AM EDT
Alex Iwashyna didn't realize how many of her neighbors in Richmond, Va., had backup generators until her own family bought one in the dark days after Hurricane Irene. As she endured the drone of a combustion engine in her backyard, she noticed the same steady noise from neighbors' homes.
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Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:20 PM EDT
For disaster victims rebuilding their homes, towns and lives, the anxiety is matched only by anger at Congress for entangling their future in a political battle over government spending.
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Tue Aug 9, 2011 10:07 AM EDT
Half a world away from the secretive farms that produce Japan's legendary Kobe beef, Jerry Wilson raises the American version of the meat that will become $50 steaks and $13 burgers.
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Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:55 PM EDT
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has become a prominent champion of legalized gay marriage, pushing his state into the center of the national debate over an emotional and divisive issue.
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Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:06 AM EDT
Google, Apple and Facebook get all the attention. But the forgettable everyday tasks of technology — saving a file on your laptop, swiping your ATM card to get 40 bucks, scanning a gallon of milk at the checkout line — that's all IBM.
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Sat May 21, 2011 7:46 AM EDT
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen told cadets graduating from West Point on Saturday they should build bridges to a public that doesn't always understand the "full weight" of military service after a decade of deadly conflicts.
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Fri May 20, 2011 8:27 PM EDT
First lady Michelle Obama urged more than 1,000 cadets Friday night on the brink of graduating to keep in mind the families of the soldiers they will lead.
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Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:44 PM EDT
It's starting to feel like an all-you-can-eat buffet on the newsstand lately. And that has some food magazines mixing it up a bit.
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Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:42 PM EDT
"Bullpen Diaries: Mariano Rivera, Bronx Dreams, Pinstripe Legends, and the Future of the New York Yankees" (Harper), by Charley Rosen: Forgive New York Yankees fans if they get nervous when one of the team's relievers takes the mound. The 41-year-old lights-out closer, Mariano Rivera, appears to defy time with every cutter he throws for a strike. Fireballer Joba Chamberlain is young, naturally gifted and inconsistent. And the rest of the bullpen has been a mixed bag over the last couple of years.
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:09 PM EDT
Focusing on benefits alone provides only a partial snapshot of employee compensation.
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Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:07 PM EDT
A prosecutor in California collects $118,000 in unused sick days. A police officer in New York rings up $125,000 in overtime the year before retiring and "spikes" his pension payments. An Ohio school superintendent is hired for the same job from which he just retired and takes in more than $100,000 annually in salary and pension.
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Wed Apr 6, 2011 3:22 PM EDT
Turns out Jamie Oliver's revolution won't be televised — at least not from Los Angeles school kitchens.
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Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:21 AM EST
Haute cuisine is to hospital food as coq au vin is to mystery meat, right?
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Mon Mar 7, 2011 5:11 PM EST
Family, friends and scores of comrades bid their final goodbyes to 24-year-old 1st Lt. Daren Hidalgo on Monday on the grounds of the storied academy where he, his father and an older brother trained to become Army officers.
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Fri Feb 4, 2011 1:03 PM EST
Leaky roof?
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Wed Jan 5, 2011 2:24 PM EST
You've come a long way, vegan.
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