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communityCourt records reveal troubled childhood of 'barefoot bandit'

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July 22nd, 2010 Tom 29 views
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sland County, Washington (CNN) -- Colton Harris-Moore returned Thursday to a setting with which he is all-too-acquainted: a Washington State courtroom. After two years on the run, Harris-Moore, 19, heard the charge and possible jail time he faces for stealing a plane.

The teen had been on the run since he walked away from a juvenile halfway house in Renton, Washington, in 2008.

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Complaint: communityFarmers Dairy picketed by workers

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July 11th, 2010 articoz_team 47 views
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Workers picketed a Halifax-area Farmers Dairy plant on Sunday, with the workers saying they had been locked out and the company saying the workers were on strike.

A Farmers Dairy spokesman said the Nova Scotia-based firm would continue processing milk at the plant for the duration of the job action.

Many of the affected employees work at the company's processing and packaging plant on Hammond's Plains Road near Bedford, N.S., the site of the picket…

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Complaint: communityA spoonful of Sugar

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July 8th, 2010 Tom_Burger 32 views
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Sugar Sammy

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sci-techForum structure

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July 8th, 2010 id 70 views

A post is a user submitted message enclosed into a block containing the user's details and the date and time it was submitted. Members are usually allowed to edit or delete their own posts. Posts are contained in threads, where they appear as boxes one after another. The first post starts the thread; this may be called the TS (thread starter) or OP (original post). Posts that follow in the thread are meant to continue discussion about that post, or respond to other…

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Complaint: technologyGlobal supply under pressure

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July 8th, 2010 citizenblr 38 views
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And much of the world's supply is produced in Canada. Testing.

The National Research Universal (NRU) reactor went fully online at Chalk River, Ont., on Nov. 3, 1957. It has been used for scientific research, including the development of nuclear medicine. It remains the biggest single source in the world of the isotope cobalt-60, which has been used in cancer treatment for more than half a century.

Chalk River's importance gained worldwide attention…

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