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Engineering the Everglades

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The Army Corps of Engineers spent over two decades and $208 million building a complicated water management system in the Florida Everglades which has caused environmental damage to the area. Now the engineers are hoping to reverse the damage. The environmental plans are discussed.

Author: Stover, Dawn
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 1992
Planning, Environmental aspects, Everglades, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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Nike is set to launch its Nike Shox range of athletic shoes which have been 16 years in development. The shoe's name comes from the shock absorber-type of suspension in the heel.

Author: Stover, Dawn
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 2000
Product development, Nike Inc., Athletic shoes, Sporting goods industry, NKE

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Hyperspectral spy satellites are examined in detail. By utilizing wavelengths outside the visible spectrum they can see through camouflage.

Author: Stover, Dawn
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 2001
Guided missiles and space vehicles, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Military Space Vehicles NEC, Innovations, Imaging systems, Reconnaissance satellites, Military spacecraft

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