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Inquiry aims to bring out true Kinabalu story
AN army board of inquiry aimed at discovering how the recent ill-fated Mount Kinabalu expedition...
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Major in big peace push
THE British Government last night launched what is said to be its \"big push\" for peace in Northern Ireland by offering...
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UK tipped to reject bill giving passports
THE bill aimed at granting British citizenship to Hong Kong's ethnic minorities is expected to be finally reject-...
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FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET...SR-71 BLACKBIRD THE SR-71 BLACKBIRD FLEW HIGHER AND FASTER THAN ANY PRODUCTION AIRCRAFT EVER UNTIL THE AIR FORCE GROUNDED THE PLANES IN 1990. NOW, THE PLANE THAT SPIED ON AMERICA'S ENEMIES FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES HAS RETURNED TO THE SKIES AS A RESEARCH CRAFT. HERE IS A LOOK AT THE AIRPLANE AND ITS CAPABILITIES
DIAGRAMS 2 MAP CHARTS 3; Staff graphic/AARON E. PORTER Diagrams (color): SR-71 Unusual features. Some comparisons. Map (color): Route of speed record flight. Charts: Data on the SR-71. Research uses for the SR-71. History of the SR-71.
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TAKE IT EASY CAN TRAFFIC BE 'CALM' IF DRIVERS ARE NOT?
In last week's PG North, we published a story that started thusly: \"Marshall supervisors Monday adopted a traffic-calming policy ...\" The story goes on. The mind does not. \"Traffic- calming.\" \"Traffic-calming.\" Yes, kids, that's really putting \"traffic\" and \"calm\" together in one idea, which is kind of like blending matter and antimatter. And if I recall high school physics correctly, blending matter and antimatter yields an explosion more powerful than any splitting atom could achieve. Or maybe it yields water. High school physics was a long time ago. For instance, the residents pushing traffic-calming in Marshall hail from Sewickley Farms, a housing plan with a main road that makes a mile-long loop. It looks doggone much like a NASCAR track, with a front straightaway nearly a half-mile long. Do drivers speed there? I have no doubt. Why? Partly because you can see well and partly because the speed limit is a ridiculous 20 mph. So if we must, for political reasons, calm traffic, let's use traffic-calming devices that reflect reality by letting drivers reach that 85th percentile speed without crushing their cars' suspensions and spilling coffee on themselves.
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A GRAIN OF SENSE HISTORY CAN'T BE ONLY FACTOR IN SEEKING RESTORATION FUNDS
People keep wanting to call it a cabin, this small log structure once on the Hodil Farm in Ross, later on the Schlag Farm in Ross and now in a heap at the Ross community center. Again and again, those who love the little building and hope to save it use that word. \"This cabin is a winner!\" local historian Sandy Brown said in a story in our pages last week (\"Schlag cabin found badly deteriorated,\" Oct. 9 -- and yes, yes, I know, we called it a cabin ourselves). Don't get me wrong. I'm glad Sandy Brown and others alerted us to the Schlag Farm in the first place. It was a superbly preserved glimpse at an agrarian past, nestled amid a housing development in bustling southern Ross. I'm glad the developer who bought the Schlag Farm gave the history-minded folks time to move the granary. I'm glad volunteers, including a class of Beattie Technical School students, pitched in to help. I'm glad Ross commissioners agreed to have the granary rebuilt at the township's new center, a place where thousands can see it.
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FLOATING A NOTION BUILDERS COULD END IMPASSE WITH WATERLINE REPAIR FUND
Well, OK, maybe not a \"screeching\" halt. Houses and strip malls are still materializing as if built by shoe-making elves. Those houses and strip malls, however, are all being built under previously approved plans. Plans now in the pipeline (pun intended) have been left high and dry (I'm so funny) as West View refuses to promise anyone water. On the minus side, though, West View has wrought this miracle in its quest for the right to destroy North Park. Oh, OK, that's overstating things -- what it really wants to do is build a waterline along the park's border to serve areas of Pine and Marshall to the north. What it doesn't want to do is promise to pay for damage if the line breaks. What's a self-respecting Nader voter to think? Do you love West View for kinking the lifeline feeding the suburbs? Reading about developers frustrated in the quest to launch the next Hill Valley Fields has to be awfully sweet. Or do you hate West View for wanting no responsibility if its line turns a corner of North Park into a study in soil erosion?
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DEATH IN THE NEWS ALERTING PUBLIC TO DANGER IS ONE TASK OF JOURNALISTS
In this week's paper, we're sharing the story of a Sewickley mom and dad who lost their son to heroin. You'll find that on page N-2. In last week's paper, we shared the stories of two mothers from the Alle-Kiski Valley who lost their daughters to heroin. So it is with heroin. Some kid in Sewickley might have read about the two Alle-Kiski girls and shrugged, then read this week about a friend, a schoolmate, someone who walked Sewickley's streets and stopped to think. If it could take him, could it take me? Ultimately, it's not up to us as journalists to say what those facts mean -- what truth they spring from. For sure, we choose which facts to print, attempting to share facts people will find relevant and interesting. No one cares what I had for breakfast this morning, fact though it is. But interpretation of the facts, finding the truth they spring from, is something that evolves over years, and something that evolves differently in each person's mind.
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