
Steve Liewer
Military Reporter at Omaha World-Herald
Military reporter, ex-Omaha World-Herald. Mizzou J-grad. Former combat correspondent, Stars and Stripes. 4th-generation Nebraska journalist.
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2 months ago |
kearneyhub.com | Steve Liewer
With World War II raging in Europe and the Pacific, Robert Boyd’s widowed mother wasn’t too keen on letting her 17-year-old son join the Marines. He had quit high school for a union job to support his mother and younger brother. But it was spring 1944, and Boyd longed to test his mettle like a lot of the older fellows he knew. He thought the Marine Corps was the best place to do that.
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2 months ago |
theindependent.com | Steve Liewer
Maybe the magic-bullet cure for Nebraska’s pothole-ridden roads comes from the tip of a pencil. Twenty-one years ago, a pair of British researchers peeled a thin layer of graphite and sifted through the flakes to sort out the ones that were only one atom thick. What they discovered turned out to be the strongest material known to science: 200 times stronger than steel, as well as being a superb conductor of heat and electricity, according to an article last October in Science magazine.
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2 months ago |
kearneyhub.com | Steve Liewer
With World War II raging in Europe and the Pacific, Robert Boyd’s widowed mother wasn’t too keen on letting her 17-year-old son join the Marines. He had quit high school for a union job to support his mother and younger brother. But it was spring 1944, and Boyd longed to test his mettle like a lot of the older fellows he knew. He thought the Marine Corps was the best place to do that.
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2 months ago |
kearneyhub.com | Steve Liewer
Maybe the magic-bullet cure for Nebraska’s pothole-ridden roads comes from the tip of a pencil. Twenty-one years ago, a pair of British researchers peeled a thin layer of graphite and sifted through the flakes to sort out the ones that were only one atom thick. What they discovered turned out to be the strongest material known to science: 200 times stronger than steel, as well as being a superb conductor of heat and electricity, according to an article last October in Science magazine.
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2 months ago |
yorknewstimes.com | Steve Liewer
Maybe the magic-bullet cure for Nebraska’s pothole-ridden roads comes from the tip of a pencil. Twenty-one years ago, a pair of British researchers peeled a thin layer of graphite and sifted through the flakes to sort out the ones that were only one atom thick. What they discovered turned out to be the strongest material known to science: 200 times stronger than steel, as well as being a superb conductor of heat and electricity, according to an article last October in Science magazine.
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