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SC Wire: New Solar Array Shows Promise

August 24, 2012 by

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Read  ”New Solar Array Shows Promise,” part of the coverage on a new UA solar array written the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram: “On the University of Arizona campus, researchers with the school’s optical science department are developing a new solar array that could make solar energy cheaper than its competition. Led by Dr. Roger Angel, […]

SC Wire: Solar Soars in the Desert

August 24, 2012 by

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Watch Solar Soars in the Desert, an episode of Arizona Public Media’s Arizona Week produced by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram, including a field piece that reviews a new solar array that promises huge improvements in capturing solar energy. “If we show that we can build this thing, we can take it to manufacturing scale […]

SC Wire: Arizona Birders meet Sonoran ‘Falcons’ on Santa Cruz River

April 17, 2012 by

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Read Birders team up with ‘halcones’, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published in the Nogales International: “A local festival, which will include a birdwatching tour of the Santa Cruz River in Sonora, aims to combat the borderlands’ negative image and bring tourists back to Santa Cruz County and northern Mexico, The Santa Cruz […]

SC Wire: All-terrain wheelchairs direct from Sonora

April 10, 2012 by

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Read Project gives better access to people in wheelchairs, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published in the Nogales International: “In a workshop in Nogales, Sonora, a blinding flash of light comes from Gabriel Zepeda’s blowtorch as he welds together metal bars that will be used for an all-terrain wheelchair. Meanwhile, at a free […]

SC Wire: Truck security at produce conference

March 30, 2012 by

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Read Securing the supply chain against smugglers, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published in the Nogales International: “Every winter, thousands of trucks carry fruits and vegetables from Mexico’s Pacific coast through Santa Cruz County on their way to supermarkets and restaurants around the country. Making sure that contraband, weapons and pests aren’t carried […]

SC Wire: Food safety big issue at produce conference

March 28, 2012 by

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Read Seminars stress active response to outbreaks of food-borne illness, written by the Chronicle’s Curt Prendergast and published in the Nogales International: “Recent contaminations of cantaloupes and papayas were at the forefront of discussions at last week’s America Trades Produce conference in Tubac. The outbreak of listeriosis in cantaloupes from Colorado in September 2011 and […]

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