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Making a Difference
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Rescued sweet potatoes help feed the hungry
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Sifting through the produce bin, shoppers find sweet potatoes that are big and small, round and pointy, thin and lumpy. And still there are bigger and weirder-shaped sweet potatoes that never make it to the supermarket.
Sweet potatoes must meet size and...
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Innovation
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Power plant from 1960s gives gift to education today
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About 25 miles northwest of Columbia, S.C., an unassuming grassy plot along the Broad River hides the long-gone memory of innovative technology.
The Parr experimental nuclear reactor once generated electricity there and stood as a symbol of the...
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Innovation
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The world of da Vinci lives on today
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Consider this: The guy who gave us “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper” was a part-time painter. He spent most of his day dreaming up flying machines and other engineering marvels to please Renaissance bosses in Italy and France.
His peers considered...
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Expert Advice
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How utilities united to fight scammers
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Editor’s note: Jared Lawrence is vice president of Customer Operations – Piedmont Natural Gas and Metering Services, and chair of the Utilities United Against Scams Executive Committee
I don’t know his name for sure. Often he calls himself David...
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