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Fabric treatments taking clothes to a new level (Dallas Morning News)
Companies that make computers, televisions and automobiles promote technological upgrades with the version numbers and model years. But the fashion industry – for all it promotes design changes – rarely touts the steady improvement of fabric treatments that fight wrinkles, stains and other hazards.
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County now recycling electronic waste (Dyersburg State Gazette)
Dyer County quietly began accepting computers, fax machines, printers and televisions for recycling on Oct. 24. Within a week, it had 3,567 pounds of electronic wastes.
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Garbage problem escalating (Almaguin News)
I am hoping this will bring awareness to an escalating problem in our area. We are noticing an increase in the disposal of such articles as tires, televisions, etc., being thrown out of vehicles along the sides of various back roads.
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Burglaries in Toledo jump 17% from 2007 (The Toledo Blade)
Tomica Livingston is not upset that three flat-screen televisions were recently stolen from her West Toledo house. She is more bothered by the knowledge that strangers were inside her house, rifling through drawers and searching through her children's rooms. "It's not about the things. It's that they have been through our house," she said. "I feel so violated." Ms. Livingston is among an ...
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Reidsville store reports theft (Danville Register & Bee)
Police are looking for an unknown man who took two televisions from Schewels Furniture.
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Sigma Designs hits low as 3Q sales miss estimates (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of Sigma Designs Inc., a chip designer focused on DVD players, digital televisions and set-top boxes, tumbled to a new year low Wednesday after the company announced third-quarter revenue below analyst expectations.
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Police reports: Flat-screen TVS stolen from hotel rooms (Fairfield Echo)
Theft of three flat screen televisions from three hotel rooms between 4 a.m. Oct. 27 and 5:41 a.m. Oct. 31 from Holiday Inn Express Fairfield, 6755 Fairfield Business Drive. Reported total value is $2,100.
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Not in My Backyard: Stopping Illegal Export of Junked Televisions and Computers (Scientific American)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week fined electronics recycler Jet Ocean Technology of Chino, Calif., just over $10,000 for illegally exporting cathode-ray tubes from old television sets to China. Jet Ocean is only the second electronics recycler to be penalized for shipping and deliberately mislabeling the tubes, which contain the brain-damaging metal lead. It falsely ...
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8 charged with stealing from freight trains (Journal & Courier)
SOUTH BEND - A former railroad conductor and seven others face federal charges that they stole merchandise, including liquor and televisions, from freight trains stopped in northern Indiana.
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Giant televisions, license plates aid lake protection (Sierra Sun)
Show promoting Tahoe license plates hits the Capitol this week
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