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Jun. 10—MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake High School top 10 seniors for 2021 had a few choice words to describe their final year in high school. "Depressing. Boring. Uneventful," said Macie Loutherback. "It was difficult to stay motivated," added Samuel Otey. "Gratitude for anything we got to do," said Lauren Tolley. "But we had to be creative, though, with the things we could do," said Taylor ...
Goal: Permanently end construction of pipeline that poses imminent environmental and safety risk. A major cyber-attack on a U.S. pipeline has caused ramped-up gas prices and a barrage of motorists storming gas stations in some eastern states. This often-played scene of panic demonstrates the country’s and the world’s increasingly harmful reliance on fossil fuels as an energy source. North of the border, in Canada, the nation’s government is busy dumping a flood of money into an oil pipeline with a hazardous environmental and safety record. This strange commitment completely contradicts ...
A From fish farms bobbing in the Straits of Johor to industrial warehouses and the rooftops of hotels downtown, urban farming is all the rage in Singapore. Covid-19 has given the country, which produces only a tiny fraction of what its people eat, a big scare. Dependence on neighbors for sustenance is a huge vulnerability the government says it's determined to rectify. Developing agriculture almost from scratch doesn't come easy. Obstacles include a shortage of labor, competition from lower-cost economies elsewhere in Asia and a chronic scarcity of space. How the nation addresses these h...
SINGAPORE - Masks that are worn repeatedly and for prolonged periods need to be washed often as they contain microbes from our skin and respiratory droplets, a study has noted. An experiment by testing laboratory Eurofins showed that bacteria, yeast and mould were found in greater amounts when a mask had been worn for a longer period. The experiment involved...
April 01, 2021 Capital raise will take Plus's ambitions to the next level with proceeds going to R&D and testing SHANGHAI, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Private equity firm ClearVue Partners yesterday announced the completion of a Series C funding round for Plus (formerly Plus.ai), a leading provider of self-driving truck technology in the US and China, raising USD 220 million. ClearVue is the co-lead investor of the financing round. Plus specializes in developing full-stack self-driving technology to enable large scale autonomous commercial fleets. The firm is one of the most advanced autono...