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Can Edward LaForce save the world?

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Vermont inventor Edward LaForce has designed a car engine powered by magnets that is incredibly fuel-efficient and non-polluting. Despite endorsements from highly qualified engineers and administrators, run-ins with the IRS and the SEC have prevented much of his brilliance from reaching fruition.

Author: Lemley, Brad
Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1992
Innovations, Inventors, Internal combustion engines, LaForce, Edward

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When work can save your life

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Three women who achieved financial independence with the help of government programs are profiled. They include Gayle, who at age 34 learned enough about construction work through a program called Orientation to Nontraditional Occupations for Women to land a $600-a-week job building a highway.

Author: Fragin, Sheryl
Publisher: Rodale, Inc.
Publication Name: New Woman
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-6974
Year: 1996
Political aspects, Working women, Occupational training, Federal aid to vocational education, Government aid to vocational education, Loyola, Gayle, Boyd, Rebecca, Schmidt, Susan

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Save the storks

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White storks are an endangered species. Of 19 species, only two breed in Europe, the rare black stork and the white stork which breeds mainly in Poland. Wroclaw, Poland-based ProNatura is actively and successfully initiating environmental programs including one to save Poland's storks.

Author: McConahay, Mary Jo
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1999
Poland, Environmental aspects, Associations, Endangered species, Environmental policy, Wildlife conservation, Storks, Water birds

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