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NASA GRC Solicitation: Great Lakes Science Center Partnership  -  16 Nov 2008
Space Ref (press release)NASA/GRC has a requirement for facilitation and development of educational exhibits and education packages in partnership with the Great Lakes Science

Study: Separate Great Lakes, Mississippi basins  -  16 Nov 2008
Joliet Herald News,AP Waterways engineered more than a century ago to connect the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds should be altered to stop the exchange of

Regional leaders’ summit a flop  -  16 Nov 2008
Daily Nation,By NGOVI KITAU Posted Sunday, November 16 2008 at 16:34 THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED during the Great Lakes Summit held in Nairobi on November 7 in response to

Santa Anas slacken; Lake-effect snow machine shifts into high gear  -  16 Nov 2008
USA TodayBlustery in the Great Lakes, Northeast -- Low pressure over eastern Canada will not only trigger rain showers across parts of New England this morning,

Relief In Sight For Firefighters  -  16 Nov 2008
AccuWeather.comThe Midwest Regional News story reports that the cold air whipping across the Great Lakes will continue to allow for lake-effect snow through Tuesday.

SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT University of Michigan professor helps ...  -  16 Nov 2008
Detroit Free Press,In the classroom and at home, she seeks to celebrate and preserve a language of the American Indians who populated the Great Lakes region for several

Kalamazoo to host 2010 USA curling championships  -  16 Nov 2008
Detroit Free Press,Michigan's men's team finished second at the Great Lakes regional at Purdue, qualifying for its second straight trip to the NCAA championships.

Group tolls bell for lost crews  -  16 Nov 2008
Port Huron Times Herald,Brian Eickel called "perfect background" for a Saturday memorial ceremony for crewmen lost on the Great Lakes. The second annual ceremony was held at the

Meeting looks at Lake Huron's water  -  16 Nov 2008
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre,Public Health Manager Pamela Scharfe spoke about Lake Huron at an international conference on Great Lakes Water quality. Scharfe spoke about Lake Huron

Schlinkert, Carnago key to Cardinals’strong season  -  16 Nov 2008
Port Huron Times Herald,By JIM WHYMER • Times Herald • November 16, 2008 Two years ago, the Cardinals were near the bottom of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

• Uganda to help end conflicts in region...  -  16 Nov 2008
Wavah Broadcasting Company, Uganda,Musumba says many countries in the Great Lakes Region are still engulfed in conflicts which apart from claiming many lives are derailing development efforts

Regional Top 10 finish not easy for Purdue  -  16 Nov 2008
Journal and Courier,2008 Purdue's women came prepared to run on their home course at Saturday's NCAA Cross Country Great Lakes Regional. The Boilermakers, however, were not

Scientists: Disconnect Great Lakes, Mississippi Watershed  -  Nov 15, 2008
FOXNewsCHICAGO — Connections engineered more than a century ago between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed should be changed to block the advance

Great Lakes activists want stronger protections  -  Nov 15, 2008
Chicago Tribune,When President George W. Bush in October signed a water compact negotiated by the Great Lakes states, supporters rejoiced that seven years of haggling over

Obama sympathetic to Great Lakes issues  -  Nov 15, 2008
Detroit Free Press,That's something that people fighting to protect the Great Lakes need to keep in mind during the initial years of Barack Obama's presidency.

SHORT HANDED JAGS CAP 2008 AT NCAA GREAT LAKES REGIONAL  -  Nov 15, 2008
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Jaguars Athletics,WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Running just six runners, the IUPUI women's cross country team wound down the 2008 season at Saturday's NCAA Great Lakes Regional

UW wins 7th straight Great Lakes Regional  -  Nov 15, 2008
University of Wisconsin Badgers,Team running seemed to be a successful strategy on Saturday at the Great Lakes Regional in West Lafayette, Indiana. After winning their 10th straight Big

Eagle Harriers Seventh at NCAA Great Lakes Regional  -  Nov 15, 2008
EMU Eagles,WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.—The Eastern Michigan University men's cross country team finished seventh at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional held on the Purdue Varsity

Mount Union College Women's Cross Country Finishes 26th at NCAA ...  -  Nov 15, 2008
Mount Union College Athletics,...(Marietta/Marietta) with a 33rd place finish individually (23:30) at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional hosted by Otterbein College in Westervile, Ohio.

25th-ranked Tigers Finish Third at Great Lakes Regional  -  Nov 15, 2008
DePauw University,November 15, 2008, Westerville, Ohio - DePauw, ranked 25th in Division III, totaled 105 points and finished third behind top-ranked Calvin and eighth-ranked

Great Lakes iron-ore shipments slip in October  -  Nov 13, 2008
Chicago Tribune,Shipments of iron-ore pellets on the Great Lakes dipped in October as steel production declined. A report by the Lake Carriers' Association says nearly 5.7

A look at invasive species in the Great Lakes  -  Nov 11, 2008
Chicago Tribune,By AP Scientists say more than 150 invasive species have been found in the Great Lakes, the largest surface freshwater system in the world,

Cross Country Competes at Great Lakes Regional  -  Nov 15, 2008
OU Grizzlies,The men's team is ranked 15th in the Great Lakes region going into today's meet and Jones was named an all-league first team selection after finishing third

Saving the Great Lakes: President Bush signs on  -  Nov 14, 2008
Canadian Consulting Engineer (subscription) (press release),In his last days in office, US President George Bush has signed a compact that virtually bans the removal of water from the Great Lakes.

Aging Great Lakes freighter to be sold for scrap  -  Nov 11, 2008
MLive.com,...(AP) — A freighter believed to be one of the oldest on the Great Lakes is being sold for scrap. A tug is scheduled to haul the EM Ford on Tuesday to a scrap

FAO hails cassava's comeback in Great Lakes region  -  Nov 15, 2008
Afrique en ligne,...(FAO) on Friday hailed the comeback of healthy cassava, one of Africa's principal foodstuffs, to the menu of people in the Great Lakes Region.

In total, Lakes coal trade steady in October  -  Nov 15, 2008
BusinessNorth.com,CLEVELAND—Shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 4 million net tons in October, the same as a year before. However, certain segments of the trade

Snow in the MidWest/Great Lakes & Lake Effect Snows  -  Nov 13, 2008
AccuWeather.comI placed an area of snow across the Midwest into the Great Lakes late Friday into Saturday. the upper level low will dig into the Midwest and the surface

Veteran's Day service at Great Lakes National Cemetery draws hundreds  -  Nov 12, 2008
MLive.com,...were among hundreds of people in attendance Tuesday at the fourth annual Veterans Day program at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly Township.

Advocates say Obama will be a Great Lakes friend  -  Nov 6, 2008
Forbes,..."It's hard to imagine how the Great Lakes could not be a priority" for the new administration," Davis said in a conference call with reporters.

Duluth's Omnimax may be near end  -  Nov 15, 2008
Duluth News Tribune,Russell cited two reasons for the local theater’s disappointing performance: competition for the same audience from the Great Lakes Aquarium and the Lakes

As Veteran's Day ceremony approaches, Great Lakes National ...  -  Nov 8, 2008
MLive.com,...by Linda Angelo | The Flint Journal Great Lakes National CemeteryAn artist's rendering of the future Great Lakes National Cemetery administration building.

Great Lakes team wins B-Plan content at IIM –Indore  -  Nov 14, 2008
MBAUniverse.com,Competing in this four-stage competition, against with over 150 teams, the team from Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai won the top honors.

Students show their environmental stewardship  -  Nov 13, 2008
MLive.com,Special to The ChronicleArea students are participating in the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative, a program designed to improve science education and help

Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. Reports October 2008 Traffic  -  Nov 7, 2008
MarketWatchGreat Lakes is providing scheduled passenger service at 59 airports in seventeen states with a fleet of Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias and Raytheon/Beech 1900D

Officials: Botulism problem for Great Lakes birds  -  Nov 6, 2008
Chicago Tribune,State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania say dead gulls and loons are proof that avian botulism continues to be a problem for Great Lakes shore birds.

Great Lakes iron ore shipment volume slowing  -  Nov 13, 2008
SteelGuru,It is reported that iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes are slowing in response to a downturn in North American steel production.

Great Lakes regional beckons for both men's and women's squads  -  Nov 13, 2008
Indiana Statesman,With the cross country season coming to an end, the men's and women's teams will be traveling to Purdue for the Great Lakes Invitational on Saturday, Nov.

• Gobies invade streams, inland lakes  -  Nov 8, 2008
MLive.com,O'Keefe landed a round goby, a menacing little fish that transoceanic freighters imported to the Great Lakes in ballast water in the late 1980s.

Old book sheds new light on Great Lakes shipping history  -  Nov 5, 2008
Canada.com,She held 255 pages detailing brigs, tugs and steamships that sailed the Great Lakes. WINDSOR, ONTARIO: Nov. 7, 2008: Debra Majer, Archivist for the Diocese

Great Lakes body slams arrest of Rwandan official in Germany  -  Nov 12, 2008
African Press Agency,APA-Kamopala(Uganda) The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Secretariat on Wednesday, condemned the arrest of the Rwandan Chief of Protocol

Great Lakes Writers' Festival  -  Nov 13, 2008
Lakeland Mirror (subscription),6, students filled the Bradley auditorium to hear readings by Linda Aschbrenner and Tom Franklin as part of the eleventh annual Great Lakes Writers'

Women's Cross Country: Navarre qualifies for nationals with third ...  -  Nov 15, 2008
Denison University Athletics,Katie Navarre (left) and Kelsey Pence (right) led Denison at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. Sophomore runner Katie Navarre (Upper Arlington,

Obama's record bodes well for Great Lakes; Chief of staff has ...  -  Nov 11, 2008
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com,When President-elect Barack Obama was campaigning, concerns of the Great Lakes did not appear to be any sort of priority. By Ray Detter by The Ann Arbor

Rules to contain Great Lakes fish virus mulled  -  Oct 29, 2008
USA Today...(AP) — Federal officials are taking another look at proposed rules designed to contain a fish-killing virus in the Great Lakes after critics said they were

Golden Grizzlies to Compete at Great Lakes Regional Championship  -  Nov 13, 2008
OU Grizzlies,The Oakland University men's and women's cross country teams are ready to lace up their running shoes and compete at the Great Lakes Regional Championship

Dredgers give Strand a fresh coat of sand  -  Nov 15, 2008
Myrtle Beach Sun News,Illinois-based Great Lakes has been working on the Grand Strand since late last year to redistribute 3 million cubic yards of sand from three miles offshore

COLUMN - Ceremony will commemorate lost ship, lost lives  -  Nov 15, 2008
HollandSentinel.com,By BOB VANDEVUSSE The month of November is synonymous with storms and shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Mention November and those familiar with Great Lakes

Inland port deal flops: What next?  -  Nov 13, 2008
New Vision,In November 2007, the High Court nullified an agreement the trade ministry had made with a Kenyan company, Great Lakes Company to build a port in Tororo.

Juan Bustabad coming back to Dow Diamond to manage Great Lakes Loons  -  Nov 3, 2008
MLive.com,...by The Saginaw News The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced that Great Lakes Loons manager Juan Bustabad will return for a second season and be joined by

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