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WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 300,000 full-text technical reports to be included in Elsevier's free scientific search tools, SciVerse Hub and Scirus Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has incorporated 300,000 full-text technical reports from the Office of Scientific Technical Information (OSTI) at the U.S. Department of...
ATLANTA, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ORCC is a unique and viable mall redevelopment opportunity for a conversion to a town center commercial real estate project with an open air retail component due to the following highlights: -941,501 sf / 80.36 acre site with 655,734 sf / 59 acres owned -Existing retail anchor base of 410,474 sf: Belk and JC Penney (owned) and Walmart Supercenter, Cinemark, Staples (not owned) -Unique and dynamic economic market drivers -A supply...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the cut of green ribbon, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, marked the opening of the New Norris House, a nationally recognized model for efficient and sustainable living. The UT student-led team has worked for more than three years to bring the concept, first conceived in a classroom, to the modern and appealing 750-square-foot structure. The original Norris houses, first built in 1933, are the centerpiece of the...
SANTA FE, N.M., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Serious science researchers can now receive information about new DOE resources relevant to them via the new alerts service at the DOE Science Accelerator (http://scienceaccelerator.gov). Users of the free service, powered by federated search pioneer Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator, create a personalized profile of searches related to their areas of interest. The service performs these searches on users' behalf every week and...
NORRIS, Tenn., March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nature will be on display during the Tennessee Valley Authority's annual spring wildflower walks at Norris Dam on Saturday, March 27, and Saturday, April 3. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100304/TVALOGO ) The guided walks are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. EDT at the River Bluff Small Wild Area along the Clinch River west of Norris Dam. The walks are free and are hosted by TVA in conjunction with Ijam's Nature...
By Darren Dunlap, The Knoxville News Sentinel, Tenn. Jul. 24--As a student, Michelle Adkisson rose early for class at Roane State Community College's site in Harriman, drove about 30 minutes from Morgan County to get there, and stayed after classes in Harriman to work a part-time job until 10 p.m. The county's students will have less of a drive and better access to education with the opening of Roane State's new campus in Wartburg, Tenn., said Adkisson, who has worked for the college...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coal mine explosion in southeastern Kentucky early on Saturday killed five people, a U.S. mine safety official said, making this the deadliest year for U.S. coal country since 2001. The explosion happened at about 1:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) at a mine operated by Kentucky Darby LLC, Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere said. State and federal mine safety officials have been dispatched to the scene, she said. "One (miner) walked out on his...
By Monica Medel SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Relatives of 65 workers killed in a Mexico coal mine explosion abandoned an emotional week-long vigil at the mine's gates on Sunday after finally being told all the men were dead. The explosion early last Sunday sent temperatures up above 1,100 degrees F. (600 degrees Celsius) and filled the Pasta de Conchos mine in the northern state of Coahuila with lethal levels of methane and carbon monoxide. After six days of frantic rescue...
By Monica Medel SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) - The 65 men trapped by a Mexican coal mine explosion six days ago cannot possibly have survived their ordeal underground and are all dead, mine owners said on Saturday. The Grupo Mexico company said that while no bodies had yet been found, tests showed there was almost no oxygen inside the mine's shafts and tunnels and no hope of finding survivors from the explosion last Sunday. "We are moving on to the hard task of the physical...
By Frank Jack Daniel and Monica Medel SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Rescuers suspended the search on Friday for 65 men trapped by a Mexican coal mine explosion as high levels of methane gas threatened a new disaster and all but ended chances of finding survivors. Relatives screamed and wept when a senior executive from mine owner Grupo Mexico told them the search was being postponed for two to three days because of the risk of further blasts in the mine's tunnels. One source...
