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		<title>Lights Out in DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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The power is out all across downtown Washington, DC this morning resulting in major commuter delays, traffic accidents, and stranded workers.  These problems are being compounded by a pair of probably unrelated fires on DC&#8217;s Metro system.  Even the White House is running on emergency generator power.
The Washington Post has produced a map of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographia.wordpress.com&blog=3608552&post=153&subd=cartographia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing &#8220;Mondays with Minard&#8221;</title>
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There are few features on this site that have garnered as many positive responses as the works of Charles Joseph Minard, the 19th Century French economic geographer, cartographer, and civil engineer.  Minard produced dozens of fascinating maps of economic, military, and social trends.  Two of his maps&#8211;a chart of Napoleon&#8217;s 1812 invasion of Russia, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographia.wordpress.com&blog=3608552&post=123&subd=cartographia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cluster Bombs</title>
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Cluster bombs have been in use since the Second World War, but have developed into formidable weapons through years of technical and tactical refinement.  But like other many other weapons, cluster bombs have additional deadly consequences for nearby civilian populations, sometimes long after the conflict has ended.  Now, ongoing talks in Ireland seek to ban [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographia.wordpress.com&blog=3608552&post=109&subd=cartographia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Phoenix Goes to Mars</title>
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Exciting news from NASA&#8211;their long-awaited Phoenix Lander is scheduled to touch down on the Martian surface on Sunday, nine and a half months after leaving Earth.  The Phoenix is another NASA mission sent to look for evidence of life on the Red Planet.  Unlike previous missions, the Phoenix will touch down in the far Martian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographia.wordpress.com&blog=3608552&post=96&subd=cartographia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Terrible Responsibility&#8221;</title>
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The June issue of Popular Mechanics has a brief article on one of NASA&#8217;s safety features for the Space Shuttle program.  Apparently, should the Shuttle malfunction during a launch, NASA has the ability to destroy the vessel and its crew by remotely detonating charges in each of the Shuttle&#8217;s solid fuel boosters (the smaller white rockets on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographia.wordpress.com&blog=3608552&post=68&subd=cartographia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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