Wednesday, the mailbox contained:
March 2007 issue of National Geographic Adventure (The Hidden Southwest) February/March 2007 issue of American Heritage (10 Moments That Made U.S. Business) February 2007 issue of Nuts And Volts (Interface Your iPod – An overview of the docking connector and ways to utilize it.) February 2007 issue of Ridge Runner (Blue Ridge Mountains Earns Quality [...]
Seismic activity is tearing Africa apart and scientists are geared up to watch the ripping landscape in an unprecedented set of observations.
The African and Arabian plates meet in the remote Afar desert of Northern Ethiopia and have been going through a rifting process — at a speed of less than 1 inch per year — [...]
I just received my second heating oil delivery of the season, and I paid $2.249 a gallon for 150 gallons. That’s 10 cents less per gallon than I paid when I bought 150 gallons on December 6th.
Tuesday, the mailbox contained:
February 5, 2007 issue of Newsweek ([Black Hawk Down - What the Lives of 12 Americans Killed in a Single Crash Tell Us About the Human Cost of War](“Read the Cover Story” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16843652/site/newsweek/)) March 2007 issue of Car And Driver (Hardcore! Sports Cars For the Track) A subscription offer from AutoWeek A subscription offer [...]
A federal report finds Fairfax County has added more private sector jobs over the last 15 years than D.C., Montgomery, Prince George’s and Loudoun counties combined — about 100,000 jobs in all. At the same time, D.C. has added 31,000 jobs; Montgomery, 30,000; and Prince George’s and Loudoun counties each added 12,000.
Bureau of Labor [...]
Monday, the mailbox contained:
February 2007 issue of Country Living (Get Inspired! 31 pages of fabulous Whole House Makeovers) March 2007 issue of Consumer Reports (HD Made Easy) January-February 2007 issue of Appalacian Trail Journeys (Citizen Scientists) February 2007 issue of Virginia Wildlife (Be Wild Virginia – Introducing the Virginia Wildlife Action Plan) January 25, 2007 issue of Oncology [...]
Wisconsin’s cropland is shrinking faster than any other state in its region, a loss that could affect the state’s economy. Wisconsin lost almost 5 percent of its cropland from 2000 to 2005. That’s equivalent to 30,000 acres of cropland a year.
Seven other states, none of them in the Midwest, lost a larger percentage [...]
Environmentalists concede that an ambitious multi state pledge to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by 2010 will fall short, because of the $28 billion cost and the necessary sewage treatment upgrades and other improvements will take longer than three years.
The Environmental Protection Agency said this month that efforts to restore the bay’s health need to [...]
Saturday, the mailbox contained:
February 5, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek (Up All Night – Against long odds, McDonald’s finds a hot new strategy.) An advertisement from the Disney Vacation Club Coupons from Mailbox Savings An expense check A postcard from the Post Office A DVD from Netflix – The Wire Season 1, Disc 2 (The previous DVD was returned Thursday, 1/25.)
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The caribou population in Canada’s vast Northwest Territories is falling rapidly and the increasingly warm climate could slow the animals’ chances of recovery, a government wildlife specialist said Friday.
Herds of barren-ground caribou, which for centuries have been a crucial source of food and furs for local aboriginals, have dropped by between 40 and 86 percent [...]
Friday, the mailbox contained:
February 2, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Oscar The Ultimate Viewer’s Guide) Coupons from Good Year Coupons from Mailbox Savings A subscription offer from Southern Living A plea from the Natural Resources Defense Council
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Thursday, the mailbox contained:
January 29, 2007 issue of Sporting News (Super Bowl Preview) February/March 2007 issue of National Wildlife (Sexy Beasts: The Truth About Wolves) January/February 2007 issue of Old Dominion Sierran (Reading the tea leaves – Trying to predict 2007 legislative session’s impact on the environment) January/February 2007 issue of Business 2.0 (Go Green. Get [...]
Thursday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $1.879
Mid $1.979
Premium $2.079
Diesel $2.499
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices decreased 2 cents per gallon today.
Gas, Salem, BP, Gas Prices
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Wednesday, the mailbox contained:
February/March issue of Mother Earth News (Enjoy Homegrown Tomatoes All Year Long!) Spring Preview 2007 Lands’ End Kids Catalog New License Plates from the DMV An offer from Go Daddy A subscription offer from Scientific American A plea from Audubon A plea from MAP International A plea from the Arthritis Foundation
Mailbox [...]
Heavy tackles and 300-pound nose guards are common in pro and college football. Now a study shows the trend toward beefier, overweight linemen is emerging at the high school level.
Researchers at Iowa State University found nearly half of the offensive and defensive linemen playing on Iowa high school teams qualify as overweight, and one in [...]
Consumer Reports on 1/18 retracted a negative report on infant car seats that left many parents worried about their babies’ safety — an embarrassing revelation for the magazine.
Consumer Reports said it was withdrawing the report, issued Jan. 4, because some of its test crashes were conducted at speeds higher than it had claimed.
The original report [...]
Weather patterns can often be a key factor in finding out when an epidemic is imminent because they determine the conditions for germs and their carriers to breed.
The techniques can help quicken the response to viral outbreaks worldwide and health disasters like Europe’s devastating 2003 heat wave — and global warming is adding urgency to [...]
Wasps fitted with minuscule radio (RFID) tags have helped scientists shed light on the insects’ behaviour.
Rather than just tending their home colonies, the worker wasps also buzzed into nearby relative-holding nests, helping raise the young, the team said.
The researchers believed the insects were boosting their chances of propagating their genes by nurturing relatives in multiple [...]
Tuesday, the mailbox contained:
January 29, 2007 issue of Newsweek (Hidden Plain Sight – A Suspected Kidnapper, His Young Prey and a Bizarre Captivity) A 1-800-Flowers.com Catalog Spring 2007 L.L.Bean Catalog A subscription offer from National Geographic Kids Magazine An offer for Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No [...]
Tuesday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $1.899
Mid $1.999
Premium $2.099
Diesel $2.499
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices decreased 4 cents per gallon today.
Gas, Salem, BP, Gas Prices
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