For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
There's an adage that says the man who loves what he does never has to work a day in his life. That's Bob McBratney in a nutshell. McBratney, owner of The Western Depot model train store, has always done what he loved, from piloting planes in the Air...
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Store's trains go 'round world
BETHLEHEM — Fourteen-year-old Benton Schwartz stood at the corner of a huge model railroad layout and watched the trains slowly go round and round and round — and round.
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Model trains remain timeless, even in era of texting
Model trains, kids and Christmas just seem to go together. Perhaps that's why visitors are crowding into the Augusta County Railroad Museum.
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Writer David Rakoff's glass is never half full. In Half Empty, his latest essay collection, Rakoff explains the powers of pessimistic thought as he analyzes topics such as a pornography trade fair, his neurotic childhood and his recent cancer diagnosis.
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By Keith Yost STAFF COLUMNIST Suppose the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stood up one day and declared, under a law written 76 years ago, it has the authority to regulate the delivery of newspapers. Shortly after making this proclamation, the FCC chairman announces he has decided how newspaper delivery will be regulated — rather than letting the use of our finite news transportation ...
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ACCION's Frontier Investment Group and Elevar Equity Back Payment Solution Designed to Build Financi...
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ACCION and Elevar Equity Invest $2M in Bethesda-Based GloboKasNet
More than half of Wisconsin's Wi-Fi hotspots are now free as consumers increasingly turn to coffee shops, restaurants and other businesses for an Internet connection. Wisconsin has about 1,300 hotspots where the general public can get online with a wireless connection, according to Wired Wisconsin.
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Netting customers by logging them in
PARIS Aug 25, 2010: Renault is one of the key players in the Russian automobile industry. Since 2005, in partnership with the Government of Moscow (Avtoframos), it has successfully developed its production facilities in the country and in 2008, Renault became the strategic partner of AvtoVAZ.
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Renault Unveils Latitude In Moscow And Announces Local Production Of Three Models
CIOs know all about change management--from jettisoning legacy apps, to prodding line of business VPs to share virtualized resources.
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