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" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image"/></a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header><h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20230203103520/https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/my-journey-designing-dams-helping-structures-live-their-longest-lives"><span>My Journey From Designing Dams to Helping Structures Live Their Longest Lives</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2022-08-04T12:00:00Z">August 4, 2022</time></div> </div> </header><div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div class="text-with-summary">Jeffrey Fong writes about how his personal drive for safe engineering design led him to work at NIST.</div> </div> </div> </article></div> <div> <article role="article" about="/blogs/taking-measure/waxlight-moonlight-21st-century-standard-candles-nist" class="nist-teaser"><div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20230203103520/https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/waxlight-moonlight-21st-century-standard-candles-nist" hreflang="en"><img src="/web/20230203103520im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/images/2022/07/05/Staff%20in%20front%20of%20ER-2.jpg?itok=67qF8-j2" width="100" height="68" alt="Six men stand in front of an airplane in a hangar, with equipment displayed on carts in front of them. 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