January 2008
Sustainability? Green Business Has Long Way to Go: Although corporations like Apple, Google and Wal-Mart tout their green virtues on a daily basis, a new report from Greener World Media, an environmental-media and business-consulting company, found that the results of corporate "greening" efforts have been mixed at best.
January 30th, 2008
Md. Scientists Build Bacterial Chromosome: Scientists in Maryland yesterday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce.
January 25th, 2008
Cloned Beef: It's What's for Dinner: After six years of intensive research on whether meat, muscle tissue and milk from cloned animals are fit for human consumption, the FDA rules that meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs and goats are just as safe as food from conventionally bred animals.
January 16th, 2008
Intellectual Sparks Fly: In June 2006, Peter Hopkins, a civic-minded and idealistic 2004 Harvard graduate, trekked up to New York for a meeting with Lawrence H. Summers, economist and former Treasury secretary. And a business idea emerged: a Web site that could do for intellectuals what YouTube, the popular video-sharing site, did for bulldogs on skateboards.
January 7th, 2008
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