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    Crumbling Basements Blamed on Mineral in Aggregate

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    Haven for Homeless Homes

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    By the spring of 2008, the expanding cut — nibbling its way from right to left in this aerial shot — had already claimed nine cottages and was only days from finishing off the last survivors. Most were moved to relative safety several hundred yards to the north, but the second structure from the right, partially buried in sand by a winter storm, was deemed too far gone to save.
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    Working With Setting Compounds

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    Though not as hard or as strong as regular setting compounds (at left), lightweight setting compounds (at right) are sandable and almost as easy to finish as premixed joint compounds.
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    Open-Book Management Increases Profits, Makes Employees Accountable

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    Paving a Deck With Stone

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    How to Build a Concrete Canoe

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    To build their vessel for this year's National Concrete Canoe Competition, engineering students from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., placed a 1/8-inch-thick layer of concrete in a foam mold.
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    Laying a Flagstone Terrace

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    A New Look for Old Paneling

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