11 results for "Greg Gordon"
Patent filing claims solar energy ‘breakthrough’
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 10:02 AMIn a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planet’s reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost – a transformation that also could...
An inventor's winding path to solar energy
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 10:00 AMRon Ace says he recognized the many impediments to capturing and storing solar energy while working as a researcher in a University of Maryland molecular physics laboratory some 40 years ago and dismissed the possibility that the sun ever could ...
Boston bombing suspect says U.S. wars fed the brothers’ radicalism
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 5:13 PMThe surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect told FBI agents from his hospital bed that he and his brother were driven to the attack by jihadist radicalism sparked by the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which thousands of Muslims have died...
FBI arrests suspect over toxic letters
Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe FBI arrested a Mississippi man Wednesday in connection with letters mailed to President Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for the poisonous substance ricin.
Suspect arrested in Mississippi in poison letters to Congress, White House
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 1:22 PMThe FBI arrested a Mississippi man Wednesday in connection with letters mailed to President Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for the poisonous substance ricin.
Suspicious letter sent to U.S. senator may have held deadly toxin
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 12:00 AMA letter addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., contained a suspicious substance that might be potentially deadly ricin, sparking new fears of security threats in Congress at the same time the country was reeling from the bomb at...
Determined terrorist hard to stop, expert says
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 12:00 AMAmericans who've grown accustomed to rigorous security procedures since the 9/11 attacks may have to endure new measures after the Boston Marathon bombings, but experts warned Tuesday that no amount of extra precautions can guarantee safety ...
Suspicious letters sent to President Obama, U.S. senator
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 4:27 PMA letter addressed to President Obama containing a "suspicious substance" was intercepted on Tuesday at a remote Secret Service mail screening facility, the presidential protective agency said.
Bin Laden's violent legacy stretches back decades
Monday, May 2, 2011 at 12:15 PMWASHINGTON — A member of a wealthy Saudi family who'd gone astray, Osama bin Laden earned his combat spurs by fighting with Afghanistan's ragtag Mujahadeen army to drive occupying Soviet troops out of their homeland in the 1980s. ...
Feds may tighten mine asbestos limits
Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 5:15 AMWASHINGTON - The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration proposed Friday to toughen its 27-year-old asbestos exposure limit - a threshold so weak that it impeded the discovery of a health disaster from a Montana vermiculite mine. MSHA&#...
