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Dollar Sinks the Lowest Since It Started to Float - New York Times

The U.S. dollar is now worth less than it at any time since Richard M. Nixon cut the dollar’s ties to gold in 1971.

Scientists Report Severe Retreat of Arctic Ice - New York Times

The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean this year shrank more than one million square miles below the average minimum area reached in recent decades.

Dollars Still Not Equal at Canada’s Cash Registers - New York Times

Even as the Canadian dollar reached parity with the U.S. dollar, prices for many goods remain higher than they are south of the border.

Dollar Sinks the Lowest Since It Started to Float - New York Times

The U.S. dollar is now worth less than it at any time since Richard M. Nixon cut the dollar’s ties to gold in 1971.

Debating American Serfdom - New York Times

Do more than half of all Americans depend on the government for their livelihoods? Do movie posters fill seats? What are the 7 I.T. wonders? And more...

Surfing the World Wide Couch - New York Times

Conversation and a couch are plenty for the young, networked traveler.

Ghana: Breeding Plant Breeders - New York Times

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa said it would develop a center to train African scientists to develop hardier, higher-yielding varieties of crops.

Howstuffworks "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch"

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Biofuels could increase global warming with laughing gas, says Nobel prize-winning chemist

PhysOrg news: Biofuels could increase global warming with laughing gas, says Nobel prize-winning chemist

A better definition for the kilogram? Scientists propose a precise number of carbon atoms

PhysOrg news: A better definition for the kilogram? Scientists propose a precise number of carbon atoms

Utah Officials Alarmed Over Bullfrogs

PhysOrg news: Utah Officials Alarmed Over Bullfrogs

Space Industry Wants Nuclear Power; Public Fear Persists

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How a Junkie's Brain Helps Parkinson's Patients

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Feds target Blackwater in weapons probe - Yahoo! News

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.

A Veritable “Mind-Blowing Species Factory” Found Off Indonesian Coast (TreeHugger)

Helped by Generics, Inflation of Drug Costs Slows - New York Times

Annual inflation in drug costs is at the lowest rate in three decades as generic versions of some of the most common drugs have recently come on the market.

Euro Reaches All-Time High Against Dollar - New York Times

The euro traded above $1.40 for the first time since the common European currency was introduced.

Pathway to cell death redefined in landmark study

PhysOrg news: Pathway to cell death redefined in landmark study

Ancient mechanism for coping with stresses also gives cancer a boost

PhysOrg news: Ancient mechanism for coping with stresses also gives cancer a boost

When proteins, antibodies and other biological molecules kiss, a new kind of biosensor can tell

PhysOrg news: When proteins, antibodies and other biological molecules kiss, a new kind of biosensor can tell

Researchers unravel the working of the bicycle

PhysOrg news: Researchers unravel the working of the bicycle

Alfred Hershey, Martha Chase Use Kitchen Blender to Peg DNA as Stuff of Life

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U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read

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Weird Russian Mind-Control Research Behind Homeland Security Contract

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Mammoth dung, prehistoric goo may speed warming - Yahoo! News

Sergei Zimov bends down,
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World’s Languages Dying Off Rapidly - New York Times

Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century.

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From Ozone Success, a Potential Climate Model - New York Times

Twenty years after a treaty was signed to end the use of chemicals that destroy the ozone layer, experts meet to discuss the next steps in preventing ozone threats.

Phung Tuu Boi - Botany - Vietnam - New York Times

A botanist by training, Phung Tuu Boi is fighting the effects of Agent Orange, an invisible poison that has affected Vietnam for decades.

Researchers genetically engineer micro-organisms into tiny factories

PhysOrg news: Researchers genetically engineer micro-organisms into tiny factories

Species still have more viable offspring if they can choose their best mate

PhysOrg news: Species still have more viable offspring if they can choose their best mate

Prehistoric aesthetics explains snail biogeography puzzle

PhysOrg news: Prehistoric aesthetics explains snail biogeography puzzle

Stem cells can repair diseased lungs: study

PhysOrg news: Stem cells can repair diseased lungs: study

Increase in atmospheric moisture tied to human activities

PhysOrg news: Increase in atmospheric moisture tied to human activities

Concrete Canvas Shelters (TreeHugger)

Some fear Machu Picchu will be loved to death | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village

PhysOrg news: Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village

Evenness of zero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

New Fossils Offer Glimpse of Human Ancestors - New York Times

The findings are considered a significant step toward understanding who were some of the first ancestors to migrate out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago.

Batters may achieve dramatic increases in home runs through steroids

PhysOrg news: Batters may achieve dramatic increases in home runs through steroids

The Last Winter - Movie - Review - New York Times

Artists 'draw on air' to create 3D illustrations

PhysOrg news: Artists 'draw on air' to create 3D illustrations

A Chicken on Every Plot, a Coop in Every Backyard - New York Times

City dwellers who raise chickens are springing up around the country.

Holocaust Memorial Museum - Karl Höcker - Auschwitz _Photographs - New York Times

Newly discovered snapshots donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provide a stunning counterpoint to what up until now has been the only major source of preliberation Auschwitz photos.

Drug resistance gene has spread from East Coast to Midwest

PhysOrg news: Drug resistance gene has spread from East Coast to Midwest

AMD announces three new AMD Athlon 64 processor models

PhysOrg news: AMD announces three new AMD Athlon 64 processor models

Using video-game technology to find oil, gas

PhysOrg news: Using video-game technology to find oil, gas

AMD Bets on Tri-Core Chips as Quad-Core Market Lags

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Treasury: U.S. To Hit Debt Limit By Oct. 1, Secretary Paulson Urged Congress To Raise Current $8.965 Trillion Limit ; 5th Hike Since 2001 - CBS News

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress today that the U.S. government will hit the current debt ceiling of $8.965 trillion on Oct. 1, 2007. Paulson urged quick action to increase the limit.

Documentary: Inside the Living Body Delivers Organ Porn

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Researchers reassess theories on formation of Earth's atmosphere

PhysOrg news: Researchers reassess theories on formation of Earth's atmosphere

Human Evolution - Genus Homo - Lost in a Million-Year Gap, Solid Clues to Human Origins - New York Times

The origin of our own genus Homo is one of the most intriguing and intractable mysteries in human evolution.

Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes? - New York Times

Where do moral rules come from? From reason? From God? Some suggest morality can be found buried deep in evolution.

Can't Take My Eyes Off You: New Study Shows The Power Of Attraction

PhysOrg news: Can't Take My Eyes Off You: New Study Shows The Power Of Attraction

Study Sees Rise in Men Not Washing Hands

PhysOrg news: Study Sees Rise in Men Not Washing Hands

Brain's messengers could be regulated, researchers find

PhysOrg news: Brain's messengers could be regulated, researchers find

Nanoscale computer memory retrieves data 1,000 times faster

PhysOrg news: Nanoscale computer memory retrieves data 1,000 times faster

Scientists unlock secrets of protein folding

PhysOrg news: Scientists unlock secrets of protein folding

The Mystery of Hitler’s Globe Goes Round and Round - New York Times

Hitler’s globe is missing. Wolfram Pobanz, a 68-year-old retired cartographer, is positive that it’s not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Germany, and he can prove it.

City of Architecture Museum - News - New York Times

At a low-key ceremony on Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France inaugurated La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris, which reopened after an $114 million, decade-long makeover.

Courier-Express/Tri-County - A day in the life of a beekeeper

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The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review - New York Times

Some 20 paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn — the largest number outside Amsterdam — pulse through “The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” a show with an elusive heart.

Agencies Work on DNA 'Barcodes' Database

PhysOrg news: Agencies Work on DNA 'Barcodes' Database

A molecule that protects from neuronal disorders

PhysOrg news: A molecule that protects from neuronal disorders

Security, life threatened by space junk, weapons: report

PhysOrg news: Security, life threatened by space junk, weapons: report

Ancient Records Help Test Climate Change

PhysOrg news: Ancient Records Help Test Climate Change

Gene determines whether male body odor smells pleasant

PhysOrg news: Gene determines whether male body odor smells pleasant

Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV

Which doll is 'bad'?

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How this 12inch miracle tube could halve heating bills | the Daily Mail

It sounds too good to be true - not to mention the fact that it violates almost every known law of physics.

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What to Own if Economy Turns Sour - New York Times

As concerns about a possible recession increase, there are steps that investors can take to protect their portfolios.

Ayn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism - New York Times

Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,”a glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest, influenced Alan Greenspan and others.

Brainy Parrot Dies, Emotive to the End - New York Times

A comparative psychologist taught the parrot to learn scores of words, which he could put into categories, to count and to recognize colors and shapes.

Need Cash? Just Auction Off a Meteorite - New York Times

A 30-pound chunk sliced off one of the most famous meteorites in the world, the Willamette meteorite, will be auctioned on Oct. 28.

$25 Million in Prizes Is Offered for Trip to Moon - New York Times

The contest calls for entrants to land a rover on the moon that will be able to travel at least 550 yards and send high-resolution video, still images and other data back home.

Where the Good Life Demands Grape Views - New York Times

Forget the 18th hole. Wine lovers would rather live among the vines.

Satellites witness lowest Arctic ice coverage in history

PhysOrg news: Satellites witness lowest Arctic ice coverage in history

'Radio Wave Cooling' Offers New Twist on Laser Cooling

PhysOrg news: 'Radio Wave Cooling' Offers New Twist on Laser Cooling

Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find

PhysOrg news: Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find

Backpack straps harvest energy to power electronics

PhysOrg news: Backpack straps harvest energy to power electronics

Scientists carve 3D microstructures in carbon nanotube forests

PhysOrg news: Scientists carve 3D microstructures in carbon nanotube forests

Chip Makers Seek New Technology

PhysOrg news: Chip Makers Seek New Technology

'Dead' man wakes in autopsy | NEWS.com.au

A VENEZUELAN man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began cutting his face open.

A Conservative Estimate of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: $108 Billion

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Ornish: Sweat Your Way to a Bigger Brain - Newsweek Health - Dean Ornish - MSNBC.com

Believe it or not, those are among the benefits of exercising more and eating healthier.

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Lesson in life and death: pupils build dying teacher's coffin - World

Dutch primary school teacher dying of cancer is overseeing one last
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Salt water as fuel? Erie man hopes so

Bombardier to Ground About 60 Planes - New York Times

The aircraft maker recommended grounding the Q400 turboprop airplanes after two were involved in landing-gear failures this week.

Utility Will Use Batteries to Store Wind Power - New York Times

American Electric Power, a coal-burning utility company that is looking for ways to connect more wind power to its grid, plans to install huge banks of high-technology batteries.

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Redefining the Architecture of Memory - New York Times

If an idea being kicked around in an I.B.M. lab is correct, electronic devices could potentially hold 10 to 100 times more data in the same amount of space.

Taxol bristle ball: a wrench in the works for cancer

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Matter-antimatter molecules of positronium observed in the lab for the first time

PhysOrg news: Matter-antimatter molecules of positronium observed in the lab for the first time

Couple's 1,000-Day Sea Voyage Simulates Trip to Mars

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Schneier on Security: Light and Crime

Bottle makes dirty water drinkable - Telegraph

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