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(video)State gives green light to Fore River Bridge reconstruction (Braintree Forum)

The raising of the Fore River Bridge to allow a ship to pass underneath causes aggravating traffic delays for motorists, but construction of a new span could get underway by 2011 and eventually lessen these frustrations a few years later.

Factory Workers Build Plants, Then Ship Them To Jobsites (Engineering News-Record)

Energy companies and builders are laying a foundation for the next round of nuclear powerplants in the U.S., making serious commitments of almost $500 million in recent months.

Sarkozy Morphs From ‘President Bling-Bling’ to Worker Champion (Bloomberg)

Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- At 4 a.m. on Sept. 30, as the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was shaking up investors on six continents, President Nicolas Sarkozy convened an emergency meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris to broker the bailout of French-Belgian bank Dexia SA . For an hour, he grilled Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer on the terms of ...

Keith Nuttall, Gulftainer expanding terminals to prevent congestion and cater for large containerships (AME Info)

In this time of global uncertainty, it is not just the financial sector that has been affected; every industry is feeling the effects of the economic slowdown.

Coombes Primary School pupils’ burning desire (Reading Evening Post)

Arborfield schoolchildren got a taste of the Nordic recently, burning a model of a Viking ship.