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document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on July 12, 2007 01:34:56 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Few construction projects in Iraq today symbolize the financial waste and lack of accountability quite like the new U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad....');
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document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on July 03, 2007 03:22:55 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on June 07, 2007 01:52:14 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/070525.asp" title="For 15 years there had been a steady drumbeat about the coming age of wearable computers...." target="_self">Whither the Wearable Computer?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on May 25, 2007 09:35:47 am</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/070430.asp" title="This summer, students with precarious grade point averages won\'t be the only ones spending time in the classroom...." target="_self">It\'s Back to School for Louisiana Levee Boards</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on April 29, 2007 12:15:57 pm</span><br />');
document.write('This summer, students with precarious grade point averages won\'t be the only ones spending time in the classroom....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/070320.asp" title="At a lab at the University of California, Davis, researchers have developed a new microbe that is capable of transforming vast volumes of sandy soil into more stable and strong material through natural biological processes...." target="_self">It\'s Alive!</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on March 20, 2007 03:10:40 pm</span><br />');
document.write('At a lab at the University of California, Davis, researchers have developed a new microbe that is capable of transforming vast volumes of sandy soil into more stable and strong material through natura...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/070301.asp" title="Even in our tireless labors to maintain a twenty-four-hour-a-day construction news juggernaut, we here at ENR.com are not able to cover every single interesting detail of today\'s industry...." target="_self">From the Outer Reaches of the Internet, Construction Blogs</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on March 01, 2007 02:52:16 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/070216.asp" title="Call it either the rush of a great discovery or the twitching headache of yet another delay to the project. When construction crews or surveyors unearth a site of archeological importance, it\'s still one of the most fascinating slowdowns that can happen ..." target="_self">Culture Clash: Archaeology and Engineering in China</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on February 16, 2007 09:19:51 am</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/070130.asp" title="Future engineers: meet the world.  It is a big, scary place full of diversity and possibility. Get used to the size of it, because if you want to make it in construction today, you\'re going to have to work and think on a global scale. Luckily, many engin..." target="_self">Become an Engineer! See the World!</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on January 30, 2007 02:26:08 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.enr.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/070102.asp" title="As 2007 begins, it is only fitting that ENR.com feature some uplifting stories to combat that inevitable post-holiday funk. A tale of faster-than-expected construction on one project in Colorado should bring a smile to any project manager\'s face, while o..." target="_self">Uppers and Downers at the Dawn of 2007</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on January 02, 2007 06:15:38 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/061215.asp" title="There is a prevailing attitude in the construction industry that the regular media does not give their work decent coverage. They feel that the only time construction gets top billing in the national press is when some big record is broken or there is a c..." target="_self">The Twilight Zone of Construction</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on December 15, 2006 04:54:01 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/061204.asp" title="Video games have come a long way and are less stigmatized as shallow diversions for children and unwashed male nerds. Everyone seems to be picking them up. But what games are out there for the construction professional who doesn\'t feel compelled to shoot..." target="_self">Construction Web Video Games: Take Care Not to Drown the Dwarves</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on December 04, 2006 01:41:16 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/061116.asp" title="..." target="_self">Got a Tough Engineering Question? Ask the Internet!</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on November 17, 2006 05:16:56 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on November 10, 2006 12:07:29 pm</span><br />');
document.write('While the fever dream of real estate wealth in the U.S. fades away, halfway around the globe, the nation of Dubai is trying to make its dream a reality....');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/061025.asp" title="In an earlier blog entry, I mentioned that the Army Corps of Engineers in September released a new cost estimate of $12.2 billion for the construction of a vitrification plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. But there is always more to any story, and ..." target="_self">Revisiting Hanford</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on October 25, 2006 04:09:06 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/061006.asp" title="Engineering and politics may not mix well, but that doesn\'t mean they don\'t often collide. The debate over ethics in engineering takes on an entirely new dimension when politics enter the equation. In the ongoing investigation into the embezzlement of m..." target="_self">When Politics Meets Engineering, Things Can Get Ugly</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on October 06, 2006 03:27:42 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Engineering and politics may not mix well, but that doesn\'t mean they don\'t often collide. The debate over ethics in engineering takes on an entirely new dimension when politics enter the equation. In...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/060929.asp" title="If someone else had said it, it would have sounded like any cookie-cutter corporate consultant telling office workers to think outside the box. But when calls for \"disruptive technologies\" are coming from Andrew Grove, cofounder of the Intel Corp. and r..." target="_self">Good Ideas Always Sound Crazy at First</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on September 29, 2006 10:51:07 am</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/060919.asp" title="I hope more progress is made at the Hanford site in the next decade than in the last.  The Hanford nuclear facility in Washington State is one of the more infamous sites in the United States? atomic history. Built during the Manhattan Project for the prod..." target="_self">A Half-Lifetime of Hanford </a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on September 19, 2006 04:09:42 pm</span><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/060906.asp" title="Five years have past and it looks like misinformation and paranoid propaganda are still finding footholds in the American collective unconscious. Anyone reflecting on the events of September 11, 2001 remembers how amid all the intense fear and sadness, co..." target="_self">From an Engineering Standpoint, 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Doesn\'t Add Up</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on September 06, 2006 04:09:45 pm</span><br />');
document.write('Five years have past and it looks like misinformation and paranoid propaganda are still finding footholds in the American collective unconscious. Anyone reflecting on the events of September 11, 2001 ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://enr.construction.com/people/blogs/rubenstone/060901.asp" title="These days, no one\'s going to make the mistake of believing the letters BP also stand for best practices...." target="_self">Overdue Diligence?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss_date">posted on August 31, 2006 04:09:47 pm</span><br />');
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