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The 25 Best Restaurants in Austin Right Now

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PRIYA KRISHNA 1914 East Sixth Street, Suite C; 512-706-9119; canjeatx.com East Austin | Bakery Hidden in an unassuming building in a residential neighborhood is the concha-meets-funfetti-pastry fever dream that is Comadre Panadería. And plan on at least one order of the buttery Guyanese-style roti per person. Dai Due is different.

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No Eclipse Plans? Try These Last-Minute Strategies.

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Otherwise, you may spend hours caught in traffic, as many discovered after the 2017 eclipse. The highest demand so far has come in places like Dallas and Austin, Texas, as well as Cleveland and Indianapolis. Neighborhood locations, she said, may have better availability. And take off the next day, too, if you can. and Montreal.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white. Extreme cold can have similarly dire consequences , as we saw during February’s massive power outage in Texas. COVID-19 changed all that.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore.

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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

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Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have. In their analysis, the researchers also identified many recurring hotspots where pollution on a single block was consistently much higher than elsewhere in a neighborhood. Apte, Kyle P. Messier, Shahzad Gani, Michael Brauer, Thomas W. Lunden, Julian D.

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