United States Steel Corp. is indefinitely delaying a $1 billion upgrade of a coke plant near Pittsburgh to cut costs as the global economic downturn saps demand for steel.
The Pittsburgh-based company, which owns the former Stelco Inc. in Canada, has said the project at the Clairton plant was expected to create more than 600 construction jobs and ensure thousands of existing jobs.
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“In late May, Data.gov will launch, in what US CIO Vivek Kundra calls an attempt to ensure that all government data ‘that is not restricted for national security reasons can be made public’ through data feeds. This appears to be a tremendous expansion on and an official form of third-party products like the Sunlight Labs API. Of course, it is still a far cry from ‘open sourcing’ the actual decision-making processes of government. Wired has launched a wiki for calling attention to datasets that should be shared as part of the Data.gov plan, and an article on O’Reilly discusses the importance of making this information easily accessible.”
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NICOSIA, Cyprus – An Italian archaeologist claimed Friday to have discovered Cyprus’ oldest religious site, which she said echoes descriptions in the Bible of temples in ancient Palestine.
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