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YSL Retrospective Comes To Denver

AP | REMA RAHMAN | Posted 03.26.2012

DENVER -- Paris. New York. Denver? The Mile High City is not what most people think about when it comes to high fashion. But come Sunday, the Denver ...

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PHOTOS: YSL Exclusive Opens At DAM This Weekend

The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 03.23.2012

This weekend a dazzling exhibit of Yves Saint Laurent's work is coming exclusively to Denver, in a way the country has never seen it before. The D...

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Myanmar To Proceed With Controversial Dam, Reports Say

AP | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Irrawaddy River, Hydroelectric, Video, Myanmar, Myanmar-China Myitsone Hydroelectric Project, Asia, Dam, Myanmar Dam, Green News

YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar has decided to go ahead with construction of a major dam along its main river despite opposition from ethnic minorities and...

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Investigators Find Body In River Near Home Of Missing New Hampshire Girl

AP | WILSON RING | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Connecticut River, Essex County, Canadian Border, Death & Dying, Fbi, Celina Cass, Missing Persons, Stewartstown, Dam, Body Found, Missing New Hampshire Girl, Video, Crime News

STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. — The body of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared almost a week ago was discovered Monday in a river less than half a mile fr...

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Thousands Of Nation's Dams Reportedly 'Susceptible To Failure'

The New York Times | HENRY FOUNTAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Association of State Dam Safety Officials, National Infrastructure, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Dam, Lake Isabella Dam, Army Corps of Engineers, US News, Green News

LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. — Frank Brassell, owner of Nelda’s Diner in this town wedged between the slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada, knows his fat...

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PHOTOS: Inside World-Famous Architect's Residences At The Art Museum

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Downtown Denver, Contemporary, Lofts, Denver Real Estate, Modern Apartments, Slidepollajax, Living Near a Museum, Modern Living, Museum Residences, Dam, Denver Art Museum, Museum Lofts, Denver News

The Denver Art Museum's architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his ambitious designs for the World Trade Center site, is also the mind behind the Muse...

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Damming Alaska's Mighty Susitna River?

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Renewable Energy, Hydropower, Wilderness, Alaska, Dam, Susitna River, Sean Parnell, Green News

The proposed Susitna River hydro project in Alaska would involve building the biggest dam in the United States in 50 years and change the flow of one ...

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Dam Removal Spurs River Renaissance

Rebecca Wodder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green News, Environment, Restoration, River, Green Jobs, Dam, Fish, Green News

The Patapsco is a model for how we can restore rivers and reconnect communities to rivers across the region, and the nation. Tearing down old, unsafe dams opens up all kinds of new opportunities.

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Will Obama save Salmon Industry, or Dam it?

Waylon Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmon, Patagonia, Fish, Obama Administration, Save Our Salmon, Obama, Fishing, Dam, Green News

It's Up to Us--Take Action Here, Today. "Federal Defendants have spent the better part of the last decade treading water, and avoiding their obligati...

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China Dams the World: an Eyewitness Account

Peter Bosshard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, International Rivers, Dams, World, China, The Gorges, Dam, Capitalism, Green News

Karl Marx wrote, "the last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope." In a modern formulation, the last capitalist to be drowned in a reservoir may well be the one who sold China the turbines.

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Would You Like to Build This Dam (With a Little Bribe)?

Peter Bosshard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dam, World, International Rivers, Pakistan, Corruption, World News

A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from an engineering firm in Pakistan. Out of the blue, the firm offered me the contract to build the Hingol Dam and four similar projects.

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The Dam That Shook the Earth

Peter Bosshard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Rivers, Dam, Sichuan Earthquake, China, World News

Scientists agree that dams can trigger earthquakes. A new paper presents evidence that the devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province in 2008, was triggered by the Zipingpu Dam.

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