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ABC News: Food Rules: Labels Must Now Give Origin - 0 views

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  • Food Rules: Labels Must Now Give Origin
  • New regulations at U.S. supermarkets are giving consumers the knowledge they have been asking for—where the fresh food they buy originates.
  • food contaminations
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  • causing deaths, illness and overall unease.
  • melamine has tainted dairy from China
  • salmonella was found in peppers in Mexico, there were cases of E. coli infected spinach from California and beef originating in Omaha.
  • The country of origin labels will now be on beef, pork, lamb, chicken, goat meat, perishable agricultural commodities, peanuts, pecans, ginseng, and macadamia nuts.
  • sense of safety
  • accountability
  • peppers from Mexico are safe now, as is spinach from California, consumers might not be interested in buying these foods from these locations.
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Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution | LiveScience - 0 views

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  • Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution
  • Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we don't know about the secrets hidden in our genome and that of other animals.
  • Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution
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  • Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution
  • mutations
  • 500 regions
  • 80 million to 100 million years
  • free of mutations
  • do not appear to code for any obvious function
  • Yet mice in the lab bred to lack four of these DNA strands appear healthy and don't seem to be missing any vital genes.
  • specific times in a species' history
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$7.5 trillion for a 'transitional' fossil? - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist - 0 views

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  • $7.5 trillion for a 'transitional' fossil?
  • Palaeontologists: this could be your lucky day. Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar has just offered ten trillion lira - a mouth-watering $7.5 trillion - to "anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution".
  • sirgabrial on 08 Nov 08
     
    $7.5 trillion for a 'transitional' fossil?
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Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law | U.S. | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law
  • Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law
  • Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law
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  • President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.
  • President George W. Bush signed into law on Monday a controversial bill that would stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level.
  • Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law
  • Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law
  • The law creates an intellectual property czar who will report directly to the president on how to better protect copyrights both domestically and internationally.
  • The Justice Department had argued that the creation of this position would undermine its authority.
  • risks punishing people who have not infringed.
  • The Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America backed the bill, as did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
  • Counterfeiting and piracy costs the United States nearly $250 billion annually, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
  • sirgabrial on 08 Nov 08
     
    Bush signs controversial anti-piracy law
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Being Altruistic May Make You Attractive - 0 views

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  • Being Altruistic May Make You Attractive
  • Displays of altruism or selflessness towards others can be sexually attractive in a mate. This is one of the findings of a study carried out by biologists and a psychologist at The University of Nottingham.
  • n three studies of more than 1,000 people, Dr Tim Phillips and his fellow researchers discovered that women place significantly greater importance on altruistic traits than anything else.
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  • were questioned about a range of qualities they look for in a mate
  • ‘donates blood regularly
  • ‘volunteered to help out in a local hospital’.
  • greater importance
  • ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours
  • choose mates both willing and able to be good, long-term parents
  • Displays of altruism could well have provided accurate clues to this and genes linked to altruism would have been favoured as a result.”
  • sirgabrial on 08 Nov 08
     
    Being Altruistic May Make You Attractive
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Schoolyard Bullying: Which Kids Are Most Vulnerable? - TIME - 0 views

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  • Schoolyard Bullying: Which Kids Are Most Vulnerable?
  • layground gibes are a rite of passage for most school-age kids, but for some children, teasing at school can turn into outright violence and abuse.
  • 1 in 10 children suffer physical attacks, name-calling and other social aggression at school
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  • early in life.
  • stable over time
  • depression, loneliness, low self-esteem, physical health problems, social withdrawal, alcohol and/or drug use, school absence and avoidance, decrease in school performance, self-harm and suicidal ideation."
  • 1,970 children
  • physically aggressive behavior in the child, harsh parenting methods (like "overly punitive" responses to kids' bad behavior) and low socio-economic status.
  • The best predictor, the study concluded, was early childhood physical aggression. "If a child is aggressive at 2 years of age, he's more likely to be in the higher-increasing trajectory," Boivin said. "If, in addition, the mother is hostile and reactive, the prediction risk increases."
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Jamaica puzzled by theft of beach - 0 views

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  • Jamaica puzzled by theft of beach
  • Police in Jamaica are investigating the suspected theft of hundreds of tons of sand from a beach on the island's north coast.
  • It was discovered in July that 500 truck-loads had been removed outside a planned resort at Coral Spring beach.
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  • Detectives say people in the tourism sector could be suspects, because a good beach is seen as a valuable asset to hotels on the Caribbean island.
  • The disappearance was deemed so important that the Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, also took an interest in the theft and ordered a report into how 500 truckloads of sand was stolen, transported and presumably sold.
  • no arrests
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Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views

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  • A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Collider halted until next year - 0 views

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  • Collider halted until next year
  • The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be shut off until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure.
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Aussie boy breaks into zoo, feeds animals to croc - 0 views

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  • Aussie boy breaks into zoo, feeds animals to croc
  • A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday.
  • 30-minute rampage
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  • caught on the zoo's security camera
  • The child then went on a killing spree, bashing three lizards to death with a rock, including the zoo's beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to "Terry," an 11-foot, 440-pound saltwater crocodile
  • "It was like he was playing a game."
  • none were considered rare, some are difficult to replace
  • We're horrified
  • unable to press charges against
  • Children under age 10 can't be charged with criminal offenses in the Northern Territory
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | US to sell $6bn in arms to Taiwan - 0 views

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  • US to sell $6bn in arms to Taiwan
  • The US government has notified Congress of plans to supply Taiwan with arms worth more than $6bn (£3.4bn).
  • The sales include advanced interceptor missiles, Apache helicopters and submarine-launched missiles.
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  • Correspondents say the decision is likely to anger China, which regards Taiwan as its territory and opposes US military support of the island.
  • "help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance and economic progress in the region".
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DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it - 0 views

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  • DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it
  • Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good—and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September 30, 2008.
  • with MSN Music, although Microsoft has since relented and will keep the DRM authorization servers up and running through 2011.
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  • Once the Yahoo store goes down and the key servers go offline, existing tracks cannot be authorized to play on new computers.
  • Yahoo recommends the old, lame, and lossy workaround of burning the files to CD, then reripping them onto the computer.
  • it creates hassles that illegal users won't deal with
  • DRM makes things harder for legal users
  • it (often) prevents cross-platform compatibility
  • 1) to control piracy
  • all four major labels and most indies now sell DRM-free online.
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How High Fructose Corn Syrup Makes you Gain Weight - 0 views

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  • How High Fructose Corn Syrup Makes you Gain Weight
  • New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows the amazing speed that our bodies make body fat from fructose. One of the reasons why low carb diets help you lose weight is that they reduce your intake of fructose.
  • called high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
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  • typically 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose.
  • preferred sweetener for many food manufacturers.
  • cheaper, sweeter and easier to blend into beverages than table sugar.
  • carbohydrates came into the body as sugars,
  • the liver took the molecules apart
  • put them back together to build fats
  • All this happened within four hours after the fructose drink. As a result, when the next meal was eaten, the lunch fat was more likely to be stored than burned.
  • Americans are eating too many calories for their activity level.
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      sirgabrial on 05 Oct 08
       
      Main point of the study: Since its easy to store these types of sugars the body does that instead of burning them.
  • After fructose consumption, the liver increased the storage of lunch fats that might have been used for other purposes.
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Is Aging an Accident of Evolution? Stanford Scientists Say "Yes" - 0 views

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  • "Everyone has assumed we age by rust. But how do you explain animals that don't age? Some tortoises lay eggs at the age of 100, there are whales that live to be 200 and clams that make it past 400 years."
  • aging is a buildup of tissue damage similar to rust.
  • specific genetic instructions drive the process
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  • The Stanford findings suggest
  • science might one day find ways of switching the signals off and halting or even reversing aging.
  • inborn genetic programs make organisms grow old.
  • competing theory holds that aging is an inevitable consequence of accumulated wear and tear: toxins, free-radical molecules, DNA-damaging radiation, disease and stress ravage the body to the point it can’t rebound
  • “The take-home message is that aging can be slowed and managed by manipulating signaling circuits within cells,”
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How "Gene Doping" Could Create Enhanced Olympians - 0 views

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  • How "Gene Doping" Could Create Enhanced Olympians
  • lthough athletes at the Beijing Olympics have been subjected to some of the most aggressive testing ever for performance-enhancing drugs, no case of so-called gene doping has yet been detected.
  • But experts say Oympic athletes may soon be able to genetically enhance their muscles to be faster, stronger, and better able to recover after workouts—if they aren't already.
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  • Gene-doping may also work by modifying genes that are already in an athlete's cells but whose functioning he or she might want to control.
  • A synthetic virus called Repoxygen, for example, has been used this way in animal tests to insert a gene for erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that tells the body to make more red blood cells, which carry oxygen to muscles.
  • Injected into an athlete, a harmless virus could carry a performance-enhancing gene and splice it into a muscle cell, said Theodore Friedmann, a gene therapy researcher at the University of California, San Diego (quick genetics overview).
  • "Training and athletic workouts probably do their work at least partly by modifying the expression of genes," Friedmann said.
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Potatoes May Hold Key To Alzheimer's Treatment - 0 views

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  • A virus that commonly infects potatoes bears a striking resemblance to one of the key proteins implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), and researchers have used that to develop antibodies that may slow or prevent the onset of AD.
  • Studies in mice have demonstrated that vaccinations with the amyloid beta protein (believed to be a major AD contributor) to produce A antibodies can slow disease progression and improve cognitive function, possibly by promoting the destruction of amyloid plaques.
  • And although the levels were lower, mice also developed A antibodies if given injections of PVY-infected potato leaf as opposed to purified PVY.
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  • Friedland and colleagues note that potato virus is a fairly common infection that poses no risk to humans (many people have probably eaten PVY infected potatoes). While tests of PVY antibodies will ultimately determine how useful they can be, they may be a promising lead to treating this debilitating disease.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Is computer use changing children? - 0 views

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  • Is computer use changing children?
  • As the age at which children start to get familiar with computers and the net gets ever lower, questions are starting to be asked about what that exposure is doing to our children's brains and their ability to concentrate.
  • Baroness Greenfield
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  • The director of the Royal Institution says the "sensory-laden environment" of computers could result in people "staying in the world of the small child".
  • The last 10 years have seen a three-fold increase in the prescription of the drug Ritalin
  • Attention Deficit Disorder
  • This might, and I stress might, be something to do with the increased exposure of young children to unsupervised and lengthy hours in front of a screen."
  • if a small child is sitting in front of a screen pressing buttons and getting reactions quickly for many hours, they get used to and their brains get used to rapid responses
  • She contrasts the life of modern-day children with the generation which grew up without computers, who had to work to find answers by going to a library to look things up.
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Op-Ed Contributor - Wine in a Box Protects the Environment and Saves You Money - Op-Ed ... - 0 views

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  • Drink Outside the Box
  • ITALY’S Agriculture Ministry announced this month that some wines that receive the government’s quality assurance label may now be sold in boxes.
  • Wine in a box makes sense environmentally and economically.
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  • more than 30 years
  • Australians were among the first to popularize it
  • in America, by contrast, boxed wine has had trouble escaping a down-market image.
  • lighter packaging instead of heavier glass
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      it cool how somthing this simple, if adopted by everyone, can have a large impact.
  • a large part of carbon-dioxide emissions associated with wine comes from simply trucking it from the vineyard to tables on the East Coast.
  • A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York.
  • 400,000 cars
  • America will soon become the largest wine market in the world.
  • boxes are perfect for table wines that don’t need to age, which is to say, all but a relative handful of the top wines from around the world.
  • Once open, a box preserves wine for about four weeks compared with only a day or two for a bottle.
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8 Food Myths Busted! - Page 1 - MSN Health & Fitness - Nutrition - 0 views

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  • Certain foods can burn fat.
  • According to the "negative calorie effect," the act of chewing and digesting certain foods burns up more calories than the food itself contains.
  • It's better to eat six mini meals than three squares.
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  • As long as your food choices for the entire day are healthy and not too high in calories, either eating style can work.
  • Fresh fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than frozen ones.
  • You may actually get more nutrients from some frozen fruits and vegetables. The same holds true for some canned vegetables.
  • spend days being sorted, packaged, and then shipped,
  • Decaf coffee has no caffeine.
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