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Bottom line: Check it out, it's new and more interesting than Denny's just down the street. No grand opening yet, just a "soft" opening with limited menu items for lunch ($7, decent price for what you get) … assorted drinks (wine, Korean and non-Korean beer, soft drinks). The table BBQ heats up for the dinner menu which has more food items. Watched a few construction worker guys experiencing that for the first time (waiter cooks your meat, instructs you to place it in …

Check it out. You can pick from their signature pizzas or create your own pizza with as many ingredients as you want for roughly $8 (for a 10-inch, 6-slice pizza). I chose the spicy red sauce as the base, covered by mozzarella cheese, sprinkled with onions and lots of roasted garlic cloves … super good. I like the thin crust of the pizza and the choice of toppings … plus it takes only three minutes to bake. Good place for a quick lunch. It's not too busy during the weekdays, but …

CICS Executive Director and ESSIC / AOSC Professor, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, was featured in a Forbes magazine Op-ed entitled, “When The Well Runs Dry: The Currency Of Water.”  The Op-ed, which was co-authored by  Dan Bena, Senior Director of Sustainable Development at PepsiCo, suggests that governments and communities alike must begin to approach water resource management as a cash flow like commodity, managed in a fiscally responsible manner….

While some headed to the beach during the first weekend of August, eighty policy makers, scientists, activists and students put their heads together for the first DataBay Challenge at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland. Hosted by the University of Maryland’s Future of Information Alliance (FIA), the Chesapeake Bay-focused programming competition sought out new ideas to creatively use data gathered about the Bay to inform the local community and …