Pentagon needs to adapt to recruit top talent: Carter
The US military needs to give its troops and new recruits better career options due to increasing competition for talent from private companies, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday.
The US military needs to give its troops and new recruits better career options due to increasing competition for talent from private companies, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday.
Internet
Mar 31, 2015
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Ferrets won't get a legal foothold in New York City.
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2015
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Nature is on the move. As the impacts of climate change reveal themselves, species and ecosystems are moving in response. This poses a fundamental challenge to conservation organizations—how do you conserve something that ...
Ecology
Mar 2, 2015
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Sanitation scores, conferred on each of India's 421 largest cities by the national government, set a useful benchmark, say water-resources experts in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Environment
Feb 11, 2015
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Another large snowstorm affecting New England was dropping more snow on the region and breaking records on February 9, as NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured an image of the clouds associated with the storm system.
Earth Sciences
Feb 9, 2015
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When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the northeastern U.S. on February 3, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument better known as MODIS captured a visible picture that revealed the region under a snowy ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2015
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Online lodging operator Airbnb is expanding its efforts to collect local taxes, responding to complaints that it competes unfairly with the hotel sector.
Business
Jan 30, 2015
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Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he would ban hydraulic fracking in New York State, citing health concerns about the controversial oil and gas drilling technique.
Environment
Dec 17, 2014
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second-largest body of ice on Earth. It covers an area about five times the size of New York State and Kansas combined, and if it melts completely, oceans could rise by 20 feet. Coastal communities ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2014
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Dangerously high levels of air pollutants are being released in Mecca during the hajj, the annual holy pilgrimage in which millions of Muslims on foot and in vehicles converge on the Saudi Arabian city, according to findings ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2014
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