California needs French lessons in bridge building
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Californians set a remarkable standard for construction of world-class bridges in the 1930s when they simultaneously built two magnificent spans over San Francisco Bay in three years.
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By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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By Sammy Fretwell and John O'Connor, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 2--A lawsuit challenging a $150 million Lake Marion bridge project has prompted state road builders to indefinitely delay pursuit of an environmental permit they need to build the bridge.
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With its native tongue losing to English as the global lingua franca, France is fighting back
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By Julia Glick, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Jun.
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By Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Sep. 15--Plans for a $37 million bridge project through Congaree National Park suffered another setback when state regulators refused Thursday to issue environmental permits for the work.
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The Federal Highway Administration told state authorities to take a new look at bridges to make sure they do not have the kind of design flaw that doomed the I-35W bridge, which collapsed in Minneapolis last summer.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated Europe&#39;s highest bridge yesterday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs ElysÃ©es and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 20--California is running out of sand, gravel and crushed stone -- the building blocks of construction used in every road, house, school and hospital.
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By Dave Downey, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.  Dec.
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By Dania Akkad, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Neighbors of one of the last pieces of undeveloped land in the city of Monterey are concerned that the stretch of dense pine forest along Highway 1 may be replaced with a high-density development.
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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California finds fault with the Bush administration's math on competing climate plans for cars.
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Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told the California GOP convention Saturday the United States should encourage foreigners with skills to immigrate, while discouraging those who come here illegally and without skills.
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By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 19--NEWPORT BEACH -- As a child growing up in Slovenia, Bostjan  Cadez would doodle during class.