SEPT. 12-18: From the Register s archives (The Des Moines Register)

SEPT. 12-18: From the Register s archives (The Des Moines Register)
Sept. 12, 1960: A Des Moines pedestrian wanted equality with automobiles but was unsuccessful on this day. The pedestrian found an empty parking space on Fourth Street near Court Avenue, spread newspapers along the edge of the sidewalk, dropped 10 cents into the parking meter and settled in for a nap. Only a couple of minutes had passed before Police Officer Tony Mihalovich came up and asked

Neck Deep in Toxic Gumbo - Independent Media TV (Independent Media TV)
As the government drags its feet, the unknown number of human bodies decomposing in the New Orleans floodwaters are becoming hosts for a horde of diseases. The bodies continue to fester and rot, potentially contaminating the city they used to call home.

Advanced High Temperature Resistant Plastics Rapidly Replace Metal Motor and Gear Components (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
High temperature resistant plastics are increasingly being used in motor and gear parts -- hot fuel systems and air manifolds of automobiles, industrial machinery products, and aviation and marine engine segments -- environments that would have degraded previous generation polymers.

Get ready to pay more for plastic products (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Consumers could start paying more for everything from automobiles to lawn chairs, as prices of raw materials used to make plastics rise at a rapid clip.

Advanced High Temperature Resistant Plastics Rapidly Replace Metal Motor and Gear Components (RedNova)
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept.

Classic automobiles parade through history (Lansdale Reporter)
Hundreds of classic cars rumbled through downtown Lansdale Sunday as part of the borough s 17th annual car show and parade.

LiveDeal.com Shares Top 10 Tips for Selling Used Cars in Today's Buyer's Market (The Auto Channel)
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16 -- Employee discount pricing by the Big Three automakers and new deeper dealer discounts being piled on this fall, have led to a glut of used cars on the market, creating one of the best buyer's markets for used car shoppers in years.

Metro Parks event marks 28th year (The Morning Journal)
BROWNHELM TOWNSHIP -- For the last 28 years, groups of people have shown other people a way of life that would now be considered challenging. It was a time long before life's everyday conveniences of automobiles, microwave ovens and computers.

Questions about The Star? We ve got answers (Kansas City Star)
QUESTIONS? We ve Got ANSWERSQUESTIONS? Questions about The Star? Does anyone yell, Stop the presses! for a big news story, the way they used to in the movies?