Making a mountain out of a molehill: Both of Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators are proposing to change Mount McKinley’s name to Denali, honoring its traditional native Athabascan name, “the Great One,” instead of for the slain 25th U.S. president.
That nonchalant whistling you just heard was coming from the grave of naval officer Peter Rainier Jr., who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War.
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You’re next, Spencer’s: Radio Shack, the once venerable consumer electronics chain, filed for bankruptcy and announced it would sell 2,400 of its 5,500 stores.
Our money’s still on Orange Julius to be the very last store operating in every mall in America.
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We need another toner cartridge: A Chinese engineering firm has built a five-story building using a 3-D printer to form the structure layer by layer from a mix of concrete and recycled glass and steel. The 3-D printer constructs buildings in less time that traditional methods.
It would have been done sooner, but the foreman’s daughter had to print a report for school that morning.
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