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Pocono promising safety changesSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 12:40AMLONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Pocono Raceway keeps taking hits.

Information in restricted public spaceSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 12:24AMAUGUST 1 — Perhaps the most decisive battle between Malaysia’s two coalitions is being fought in the information arena, and not in by-elections or in parliament. As in most countries, ownership of the mass media affects the level of press freedom greatly. But when draconian laws are also in place strangling information flow, as in Malaysia, then ...

UNDERCURRENTS: You may be a geek if...Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 12:23AMHello, my name is Tony, and I am a geek. Name your preferred media of scornful obsession — sci fi geek, cartoon geek, comic book geek, Interwebs geek — I’ve got it covered. (Used to be a game geek, but my hand-eye coordination is crap; never...

GLYNN: Ex-Oxy site once eyed as posh hotelSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 12:21AMFor years motorists entering the U.S. via the Rainbow Bridge would often point to the nine-story, green-glassed building just off the plaza and ask the customs inspector, “Is that a hotel?”

Local Author Goes NationalSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 12:19AMWILMINGTON - Travelers face many dilemmas when heading to the airports these days, but perhaps the most fear-inducing of them all - flight delays - has local author Jeff Michaels, whose real last name is Niestepski, providing some much needed deliverance for the weary traveler in his book Please Hug Me – I’ve Been Delayed.

Standing up for stem cell researchSunday, August 1, 2010 @ 12:15AMBill Orr is certain he's going to walk again. The 50-year-old Aurora man makes that bold pronouncement from the wheelchair he's been in since age 25. Which means it was a quarter century ago that the accident on Route 31 left him a quadriplegic. The procedure he hopes will make it possible is amazing, as well - and plenty controversial.

Marc Rubin helps agents land big deals for clientsSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 11:56PMChipper Jones doesn’t know Marc Rubin from Adam. But, even if his rumored retirement comes to pass, he might want to send the longtime Southern New Hampshire University statistics professor a Thank You card. Rubin probably earned Jones hundreds of thousands of dollars on the four-year extension he received a little over a year ago. Rubin, you see, has a little side job going. The Greenville ...

Building the Penang BridgeSaturday, July 31, 2010 @ 11:54PMAUGUST 1 — Penang has a few iconic structures, the most photographed of which is the Penang Bridge, opened in September 1985. Penang Economic Monthly talks to Liaw Yew Peng, the chief resident engineer for the project. Proudly, he tells us that the bridge was actually completed below budget, but is clearly upset, among other things, at how Penang ...

Ivory by Tony ParkFriday, July 30, 2010 @ 2:21PMTony Park