Archive for February, 2010

Bowen Jewelry Company: A History of “Hope”

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How many events in your lifetime have caused people to line the streets waiting to get in; a blockbuster movie, the release of a new book in the Harry Potter series or maybe a rock concert? In Lynchburg, in 1956, that street-lining event was spurred on by jewelry. Or rather, one extraordinary piece of it: [...]

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Local “Engineers Without Borders” Test the Limits in Bolivia

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There’s a classic scene from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” where Robert Redford steps off a train in Bolivia, silently surveys a rural, arid landscape for the first time in his life…and then throws a fit. “Ha, ha, ha, ha…Bolivia!” Redford heckles. In Lynchburg, there’s a newly-formed chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) who—if [...]

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