Michael Farrell, director of Cornell's Uihlein Sugar Maple Research and Extension Field Station, also sees a big opportunity for northeastern maple producers.

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Del Genio studied more than 3, 000 individual cloud "snapshots" collected between 1994 and 1997 at the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains field station.

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After graduation she cut her teeth as a field reporter for regional television station NBN News.

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Even so, the Mars Society, an organisation set up to lobby for such a mission, plans to contribute a field laboratory to the Devon Island station.

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Known locally as the Graffiti House, it is thought to have served as a Confederate field hospital during the 1863 Battle of Brandy Station, one of the biggest conflicts between Confederate and Unionist forces.

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With the club comes ownership of venerable Wrigley Field, plus a 25% stake in the Comcast SportsNet cable station.

FORBES

"We have to move forward to professionalism on the field, and off the field too, " says Hassan Boutabsil, the head of sports at the Moroccan TV station 2M.

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