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May 21, 2013
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Taming The Desert When completed in 2025, Masdar City will pack 40,000 inhabitants into two square miles of carbon-neutral buildings. Courtesy Foster + Partners Why would a petro-state erect a solar-powered eco-metropolis in the middle of the Arabian desert? To change the world. At first glance, Masdar City appears a mirage. From a distance it looks like a single multicolored building, standing lonely on the horizon. Part of the illusion is due to the city's strange setting: next to Abu Dhabi
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January 17, 2013
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A Big One When a Norfolk Southern train hauling chlorine through Graniteville, South Carolina, derailed in 2005, toxic gas poured into the town. AP Photo/Aiken County (S.C.) Sheriff's DepartmentLong-overdue rail upgrades could prevent the next big train catastrophe. So why are the railroads so reluctant to make them? The evening of January 5, 2005, was dry and cool in Graniteville, South Carolina. At 6:10, a 12-car Norfolk Southern freight train pulled up to the Avondale Mills textile plant,
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