The premise of “ The Devil Inside ” is that supernatural evil is contagious. But, hey, we knew that. Look how the scourge of the phony-found-footage horror movie leaped from “ The Blair Witch Project ” to the “ Paranormal Activity ” series to this low-budget, low-concept, zero-plausibility flick. It’s a pestilence of infectious claptrap. Read full article > >

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‘Devil Inside’: Low-budget, low-concept, zero-plausibility horror movie

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has become architect, historian, interior decorator and custodian to manage the project, which he called a symbol that government can make citizens proud.

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Managed by Cuomo, Capitol Restoration Is Unveiled

The tiny village of Babanakayama, Japan, had plans to build a road to resettle on higher ground, but opposition has sidelined the project.

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In Babanakayama, Japan, Road to Future Leads Nowhere

No matter how old I get or how much I procreate, the elders in the family always seem to cover the Christmas meals. Sure, I pitch in by taking over a tradition or two — braiding the Christmas breakfast wreath or assembling the trifle for Christmas dinner — but I have yet to actually host. My duties don’t really kick in until the next week, for New Year’s Eve. And that is a meal I like to dive into, deeply. It started the year a friend needed to break in a new kitchen at a little beach house, and I was a newly minted food writer. I threw myself into the project, the perfect marriage of my personal and professional selves. The menu featured fish from the nearby dock, wine from a local vineyard and a collection of other courses with recipes I’d loved, and in some cases published, during the year. Read full article > >

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New Year’s Eve: An intimate dinner for friends

NEW YORK — As we sit in a booth at Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel, devouring a roast-pork-and-fried-egg sandwich good enough to heal the sick, two of Ed Levine’s staffers start dishing about their boss’s myopia in selecting his favorite haunts for “Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making & Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are.” Apparently, Levine wanted to lard a category or two in Serious Eats ’ debut book with New York City restaurants, which could have instantly undercut the national scope of the project. Read full article > >

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A cheap eats smackdown: New York vs. Washington

Hewlett Packard donates its mobile system software, WebOS, to the open source community and says it will continue to invest in the project.

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HP donates WebOS to open sourcers

Jon Jarvis, the top federal parks official, tabled the project after conversations with Coca-Cola, a major donor to the National Park Foundation.

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Parks Chief Blocked Plan for Grand Canyon Bottle Ban

Position:  President and chief executive of the QED Group, an international consulting firm in the District. Career highlights:  Division vice president, international health, at Abt Associates; vice president and director, Center for Private Sector Health Initiatives; director, USAID’s NetMark Regional Malaria Project, and private sector health advisor, USAID’s BASICS Project, Academy for Educational Development; Asia regional manager, SOMARC Project, and deputy regional manager, North West Africa and Middle East, SOMARC Project (Futures Group); Mali resident adviser, SOMARC Project, AED. Read full article > >

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New at the Top: David McGuire

A pioneering UK test of a potential technical fix for global warming will be delayed for six months while scientists discuss the project with stakeholders.

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Climate fix tech test put on hold

A pioneering UK test of a potential technical fix for global warming will be delayed for six months while scientists discuss the project with stakeholders.

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Climate fix tech test put on hold

Bolivian President Evo Morales suspends work on a highway being built in the Amazon, amid furore over forced used against opponents to the project.

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For months, a bitter debate engulfed Northern Virginia over where to build a new Metro station at Dulles International Airport, part of the second phase of a 23-mile rail line intended to stretch into Loudoun County . Two months after a decision to place the stop above ground and save hundreds of millions of dollars, there is still no definitive plan for paying for and building the project. Representatives from local jurisdictions, Virginia and the U.S. Transportation Department, plus top executives from the airports authority and Metro, are still trying to hammer out an agreement. Read full article > >

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Jack Potter of airports authority faces challenges, but also great promise

In the years between the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and today, there have been many attempts to make art in response to the tragedy. The resulting works have been sentimental, overblown, angry, poetic, polemic, maudlin, mysterious, clumsy, subtle and beautiful. All of those qualities are on display at the Edison Place Gallery , where a showcase of work by 39 artists is marking this weekend’s anniversary. Part of the multi-site 9/11 Arts Project, “Ten Years After 9/11” is, unsurprisingly, an uneven show. It is also, at times, kind of wonderful. Read full article > >

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Six birds found dead recently in Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains were majestic golden eagles. But some bird watchers say that in an area where dozens of wind turbines slice the air they were also sitting ducks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating to determine what killed the big raptors, and declined to divulge the conditions of the remains. But the likely cause of death is no mystery to wildlife biologists who say they were probably clipped by the blades of some of the 80 wind turbines at the three-year-old Pine Tree Wind Farm Project , operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Read full article > >

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Wind farms under fire for bird kills

Final approval of the project will not come before the end of the year, but the agency’s report gave every indication that the administration was prepared to see the Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico proceed.

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U.S. State Department to Allow Canadian Pipeline