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A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the ...

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"I was a landscape architect who turned to a life of crime," jokes Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, a software development and research firm based in Philadelphia. Fourteen years ago, he was one of ...