Minneapolis Bridge Collapse: A Pigeon Factor?
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Officials investigating the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse are looking at an unlikely culprit: pigeons.
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By Catherine Kozak, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 5--It was during what some locals called "the summer of the piping plover." Two vehicles were parked on the beach on the south end of Hatteras Island. Nearby, on a pole shoved crookedly in the sand, was a sign: AREA CLOSED.
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( Philadelphia -- November 28, 2004) --  Dozens of birds have fallen victim to a big oil slick on the delaware river. A tanker spilled 30-thousand gallons of crude oil into the river between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 25--It's one of the oldest historical sites in Minnesota. But that doesn't mean folks are lining up to own it.   A decade after the federal government closed the U.S.
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Analysis Fragmentation and US indifference
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A flyover collapse near Montreal in Canada is feared to have killed drivers of two cars, authorities say.
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A design flaw caused a Minnesota bridge to collapse last summer, killing 13 people and injuring 100 in an accident that focused renewed attention on the safety of the nation's highways and bridges, according to federal sources familiar with the investigation.
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The fatal collapse of a terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport last year is blamed on structural faults.
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By MICHAEL TUTTON  GREENWOOD, N.S. (CP) - Bill Bond is haunted by the memory of three airmen he was unable to save when a Cormorant helicopter plunged into the ocean off Nova Scotia last summer.
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It is one of the world&#39;s oldest questions: Why did the chicken cross the road? It might seem like a &#39;poultry&#39; subject to weigh on the minds of hundreds of scientists, but research published yesterday has brought us a little closer to the answer.
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U.S. states have found no signs so far that bridges like one that collapsed in Minneapolis last month have structural problems that would pose a danger to motorists, the government said on Wednesday.
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By Nisha Sabanayagam; Ranjeetha Pakiam; Minderjeet Kaur; Teresa Yong;  THE tipping point is very close.   Environmentalists warn that once past it, our countrys environmental deterioration will lead to irreversible consequences.  It may already have happened.
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Would you trust a software engineer to build a bridge? Comment I had to chuckle to myself reading a letter here at The Register, recently.â¦
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I am a professor of geography visiting Taiwan, and have read about the proposed construction of a freeway from Taipei to Hualien. The experience of communities in North America and Europe has been fairly consistent
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By LAWRENCE TANE III  The Virginia Department of Transportation intends to go ahead with bridge-building plans in Richmond County that a federal agency warns will affect a tidal creek's population of bald eagles.  The U.S.
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Dozens of victims of last summer's bridge collapse in Minneapolis Â from surviving spouses to the parents of children riding on a yellow school bus Â have filed preliminary paperwork to sue the state.
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An explosion meant to demolish one section of an obsolete Mississippi River bridge Thursday unexpectedly brought down the rest of the span, too.