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Science & Policy News
January 2007
International Herald Tribune, January 26th, 2007 Scientists build memory chip the size of a white blood cell: Although the chip is modest in capacity, the bits are crammed together so tightly that it is the densest ever made. The achievement points to a possible path toward continuing the exponential growth of computing power even after current silicon chip-making technology hits fundamental limits in 10 to 20 years.
The New York Times, January 25th, 2007 White Doctors, Black Subjects: Abuse Disguised as Research: Ms. Washington, a journalist and research scholar in ethics, writes in “Medical Apartheid” that this history has left blacks with an ugly legacy of distrust for research and even treatment, and that it is a lingering stain on the history of medicine.
Wired Magazine, January 21st, 2007 A pilot program will put 15 biometric ATMs at village kiosks in five districts across southern India. The machines are expected to serve about 100,000 workers who will use fingerprint scanners, rather than ATM cards and PINs, to obtain their funds.
International Herald Tribune, January 19th, 2007 A commitment by European governments to budding clean-energy entrepreneurs is creating a more welcoming environment than in America, where erratic support and onerous financial rules have given pause to some start-ups and investors.
Christian Science Monitor, January 12th, 2007 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) announced Tuesday that he will issue, within weeks, an executive order that sets a new "low carbon fuel standard" in the state. Aimed at petroleum refiners and filling stations, the new standard will give them 13 years, until 2020, to cut the carbon content of the fuels they sell for passenger vehicles by 10 percent.
CNN, January 9th, 2007 "This is a day I've been looking forward to for two-and-a-half years," Jobs told the crowd at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Click here for pics.
The New York Times, January 2nd, 2007 The discourse over the issue has been feverish since Hurricane Katrina. Seizing the moment, many environmental campaigners, former Vice President Al Gore and some scientists have portrayed the growing human influence on the climate as an unfolding disaster that is already measurably strengthening hurricanes, spreading diseases and amplifying recent droughts and deluges.
Slate.com, January 2nd, 2007 Reaction from an Italian fertility expert eight months ago when he helped a 63-year-old woman get pregnant and give birth: I'm "excited and proud." Reaction from the same expert to the new record-holder: Making "babies which will soon become orphans" is "reprehensible … Having a baby isn't like drinking a glass of water, there are criteria, and one of these is an age limit."
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