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Landfill may not deter lab
The UA will acquire 320 acres of land west of Interstate 10 that contains a landfill still being tested for contaminants, in order to preserve nearby ongoing studies of the desert ecosystem.
"There were serious issues regarding the old landfill," said Richard Elias, a member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors. "Until we resolved that, we could not talk seriously about purchasing it."
Two years ago, UA nearly became the owner of 320 acres of land near Tumamoc Hill, a site that houses the Desert Laboratory, a project run by the university in accordance with the United States Geological Survey to survey the desert.
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Club teaches art of beer
Beer.
It isn't just for pounding, shotgunning and funneling anymore.
The new Homebrewers Club of UA may seem like it's a convenient way to get hammered, but, according to president Johnny Tellez, the club is about much more.
It's about wine and other things a person can brew, too.
"Making your own beer you have a greater appreciation for it," said Tellez, a political science and philosophy senior. "Instead of getting tanked on Keystone Light every night, you can drink high-quality beer."
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Tree-ring research tells climate history
Laboratory of Tree-Ring research fills weather record gaps
In a laboratory tucked away underneath Arizona Stadium, Tom Harlan studies 8,000-year-old pieces of wood, trying to solve a puzzle that would allow him to map thousands more years of floods, fires and other natural history.
The tree samples ÷ bristlecone pine tree specimens ÷ come from the White Mountains of California, which hold the highest concentration of the world's oldest living trees in an area no larger than a football field, said Harlan, an associate researcher in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
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Students compete to be next ĪTucson Idol'
Two UA students selected as competitors in chance to win recording time, airplay, shot at record deal next weekend
Two UA students became finalists for airplay and more after singing their hearts out at the Darrin and Wayne Tucson Idol competition ÷ a local version of "American Idol" ÷ to a crowd of over 200 people Friday.
Sutopa Barua, a molecular and cellular biology senior, and Kimberly Henry, a music education senior, competed against eight other semi-finalists from around Tucson at the Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way, to make it to next weekend's finals.
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On the Spot
Junior gives insight regarding wildcat shaped building, the architecture business, cheese
WILDCAT: Why did you choose architecture?
HINTZ: I don't know. I like to draw and I'm good at math and, I don't know, there wasn't anything else I wanted to do.
WILDCAT: And you make lots of money.
HINTZ: Well, actually when you first start out you don't get paid that much.
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Campus Briefs
Highland Ave. closes until Friday for residence hall construction
Motorists will not be able to drive on North Highland Avenue between East Fifth Street and East Sixth Street starting Wednesday.
Highland will be closed until Friday so that construction crews can unload concrete floor planks for the new Highland Avenue Residence Hall. The street will be closed between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m., but will remain open all day to bike and emergency traffic. Construction officials predict that they will have to close Highland Avenue one more time this semester and six more times next semester. Motorists can use North Park Avenue and North National Championship Drive.
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Fast facts:
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Rev. Jonathan Scobie, an American Baptist minister living in Yokohama, Japan, invented the rickshaw. Scobie built the first model in 1869 to transport his disabled wife.
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The Aztecs believed that cacao came from heaven and that eating it gave people wisdom. They drank it from goblets made of gold.
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An ostrich egg can make 11 1/2 omelets.
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In 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived back from the first expedition to the U.S. Pacific coast; their journey lasted two years and four months.
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In 1846, astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Louis d'Arrest discovered the planet Neptune. The existence of Neptune had been predicted earlier using mathematical calculations by Jean Joseph Le Verrier and John Adams Couch. Neptune is about 60 times the size of planet Earth.
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In 1884, Herman Hollerith took out his first patent for an adding machine. Hollerith worked as a statistician for the United States census of 1880.
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In 1962, "The Jetsons" debuted on ABC's Sunday night prime-time lineup. The comedy cartoon series about a 21st century family marked the debut of color television on the ABC network.
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In 1976, South Africa decided to allow multi-racial teams to represent the country in international sporting events.
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In 1990, Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to attack Israel if any nation tried to force it from Kuwait.
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Quotable...
"We are armed to the teeth, and there is no going back."
÷ Rebel commander Samsara 110, on an attempted coup underway in the Ivory Coast.
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