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Aerospace industry soars in Charlotte USA
Most people know that Charlotte is the second largest financial services center in the country behind New York. However, fewer people are aware that the region has a large – and growing – aerospace cluster, with more than 130 aerospace-related … Continue reading
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Remembering
Atop the War Memorial in the Village Green, I planted my feet in a V, held out my arms and tipped my face to the sun, a five-point star next to the flag pole. The flag snapped, the white and … Continue reading
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The first piece
I’m getting to know Ames. Close to Iowa State’s football stadium is one of the largest public gardens in the state. With its butterfly wing and aquatic plants, the 14-acre Reiman Gardens might provide a place of solace for my … Continue reading
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The setting
He’ll have grown up in a tree-lined, mid-sized town. The kids ride their bikes to the library, and chalk art brighten the sidewalks. Children play outside until dusk when their mothers call them in. It’s a place where people are … Continue reading
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Opportunities lost
“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to exist.” Mark Twain This was to have been the week that I began creating my characters. It didn’t happen. An intense work week left me too tired to … Continue reading
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War up close and too personal
Restrepo comes as close as it gets to seeing what soldiers experience in war. A veteran I talked with suggested I watch the National Geographic documentary, and it mirrored what he had told me of his own experiences. The constant … Continue reading
Victims of violence
The faces and voices of the 9/11 victims on this week’s “Sixty Minutes” was the knock-out punch. There had been the week-long trauma of the Boston Marathon attacks, and I had heard first-person accounts of the toll the Iraq and … Continue reading
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War’s uncounted casualties
How do soldiers survive war? Not how do they stay alive. Rather, how do they do what they must to stay alive, then psychologically adapt when they return home. Sanctioned killing and the constant threats posed by a shadowy enemy … Continue reading
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It couldn’t happen here
When a crime occurs, particularly one that involves loss of life, it seems to strike a little closer to home when it takes place in suburbia. Not that the deaths are any less tragic in a big city, but somewhere … Continue reading
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Flying solo
Like fashions or musical genres, the flavors of terrorism seem to go in and out of style with generations. At the end of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries, anarchism was the rage. Following WWI, there was … Continue reading
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