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      Helping the stars take back the night

      Posted by Jeff from International Herald Tribune

      When the Northridge earthquake knocked out power in Los Angeles in 1994, numerous calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from people who had poured into the streets in the predawn hours. They had looked into the dark sky to see what some anxiously described as a "giant silvery cloud" over the shaken city. Not to worry, they were assured. It was merely the Milky Way, the vast galaxy that humans once knew so well - until the glare from electric light effectively erased most traces of it from urban and near-urban skies.

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    • Atlanta Is Running Out of Water - OhmyNews International

      Posted by Villagenyc from OhMyNews

      Atlanta grew faster than kudzu as investors helped attract residents to the area's low cost of living and warm climate. But the arms of expansion extended well beyond the glass towers of downtown, sprawling out some 60 miles in either direction, presenting infrastructural challenges common to uncontrolled growth. Still, construction and bigger highways kept Atlanta's economic engine churning. That is, until a once in a lifetime drought threatened the region's most precious natural resource

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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