By JOHN SCHWARTZ
The employees who were killed in a blast last year at a California spaceship company were watching a propulsion system test though a chain-link fence when the explosion occurred, according to a report from a California workplace-safety agency.
Three employees of Scaled Composites were killed in July after a “cold flow” test […]
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By FELICITY BARRINGER
A three-judge federal appeals panel in Washington struck down on Friday the Environmental Protection Agency limits on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
The panel said the agency had ignored its legal obligation to require the strictest possible controls on the toxic metal or to justify an alternative approach.
Environmental Protection Agency, Food and […]
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By ANDREW POLLACK
A person wanting to know his or her complete genetic blueprint can already have it done — for $350,000.
But whether a personal genome readout becomes affordable to the rest of us could depend on efforts like the one taking place secretly in a nondescript Silicon Valley industrial park. There, Pacific Biosciences […]
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By BEN SHPIGEL
COLORADO SPRINGS — When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of chicken — half of a breast — that measured 14 inches. “Enough to feed a family of eight,” said Frank Puleo, a caterer from Staten Island […]
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Fashion Diary
By GUY TREBAY
“This is the best place in the house to be,” Angie Harmon said on Wednesday night as she made it through a boldface mob gathered in a tent outside the United Nations, edging her way toward the Champagne bar.
“This bar is closed,” a bartender said flatly.
“Then this is the […]
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Fashion Review
By ERIC WILSON
Come fall, if professional women are taking their fashion cues from “Lipstick Jungle,” they will be wearing gauzy princess dresses that emphasize their breasts. If they are watching the runways, however, they will be dressing like Hillary Clinton.
Fashion’s mood of enforced sobriety is understandable in the context of difficult political […]
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