Beijing turns into sprawling urban lab for Olympics pollution cleanup
Beijing's effort to clear smog for the Olympic opening involved shutting down many polluting factories and removing about 2 million vehicles across the region. Scientists from around the world see this as a unique, one-off urban laboratory to study how large-scale pollution control affects air quality and how pollutants travel across continents.
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Tin Tran
Associated Press
Beijing
China
Alaska
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
University of California
San Diego
Tiananmen Square
Study finds six degrees of separation may be closer
Washington Post reports a large study of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people shows average social distance at 6.6 degrees. Microsoft researchers Horvitz and Leskovec note humanity may have a new connectivity constant across global instant messaging.
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Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post
Washington
Microsoft Messenger
Eric Horvitz
Microsoft
Jure Leskovec
Kevin Bacon
John Guare
Floods of 2008 salvage effort at Cedar Rapids Art Museum
Volunteer Elizabeth Cecil of Solon cleans the Bacchank Frieze by Malvina Hoffman to remove mold from June flood damage at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art after sewage backup.
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Elizabeth Cecil
Solon
Malvina Hoffman
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Flood damage prompts careful restoration at Iowa museums
Cedar Rapids flood damage hits the University of Iowa preservation unit and major local museums. Nicole Kraft notes ongoing cleaning and masking as staff salvage thousands of items from the African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa and the National Czech and Slovak Museum. Restoration workers face strong odors, but success restores cultural treasures.
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Courtney Sargent
the Gazette
Elizabeth Stone
Iowa City
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
University of Iowa
Kristin Baum
Ie VaZelle
Owa City
Nancy Kraft
Kraft
University of Iowa Libraries Preservation Department
Preservation Department
African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Oakdale
Net Watch on Salvaging Water Damaged Photos and Documents
A Net Watch overview notes guides from the University of Iowa Libraries preservation blog on flood restoration and Nancy Krafts Flickr collection featuring hundreds of Cedar Rapids museum damage photos.
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University of Iowa Libraries Preservation Department
Lib
Uiowa
Edu
Nancy Kraft
Flickr
Cedar Rapids
Kraftkapers
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