June 2006
New York Times, June 29, 2006
Business Joins African Effort to Cut Malaria: One of the world's biggest
aluminum producers joined an exceptional partnership with the
governments of three countries and with other businesses to take on
malaria systematically across a broad region.
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New York Times, June 26, 2006
A Massive Dam, Under Way in Laos, Generates Worries: The building of the
Nam Theun 2 dam is under vigorous attack from opponents concerned about
the destructive effects of dams, both on the balance of nature and on
the surrounding population.
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Reuters, June 26, 2006
Coming soon - mind-reading computers: An "emotionally aware" computer
being developed by British and American scientists will be able to read
an individual's thoughts by analyzing a combination of facial movements
that represent underlying feelings.
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New York Times, June 25, 2006
Boom in Ethanol Reshapes Economy of Heartland: Once considered the green
dream of the environmentally sensitive, ethanol has become the province
of agricultural giants that have long pressed for its use as fuel, as
well as newcomers seeking to cash in on a bonanza.
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Reuters, June 21, 2006
Internet smears take Mexico election to new lows: Backers of candidates
for Mexico's presidential election are launching stealth attacks on
their behalf from the unregulated anonymity of cyberspace, making
outrageous claims in mass mailings, chat rooms and blogs.
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Times Online, June 18, 2006
No sex please, robot, just clean the floor: An international team of
scientists and academics is to publish a "code of ethics" for
machines as they become more and more sophisticated.
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New York Times, June 15, 2006
That Wild Streak? Maybe it Runs in the Family: A growing
understanding of human
genetics is prompting fresh consideration of how much control people
have over who they are and how they act.
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Science, June 15, 2006
New Nano-Headache?: A study of ultrafine particles of titanium dioxide
(TiO2) -
used in manufacturing, personal care and food products, and as drug
carriers - indicates that even low concentrations can produce harmful
"free radicals" in brain cells.
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MSNBC, June 12, 2006
Students find ring tone
adults can't hear: Students are using a new ring tone to receive
messages in class - and many teachers can't even hear the ring.
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Washington Post, June 8, 2006
FDA Approves Cervical Cancer
Vaccine: Women for the first time have a vaccine to protect them against
cervical cancer.
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New York Times, June 6, 2006
AIDS, at 25, Offers No Easy
Answers: The first thing we want to know about a disease is whether it
is going to kill us. 25 years ago, this was the only question
about AIDS we could answer with any certainty; how disorienting it is
that now that it is the only question we really cannot answer well at
all.
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M&C News, June 2, 2006
Human Enhancement: problem or
solution?: Cognitive enhancement dates back to the written word, a
primitive process for downloading information from our minds to the hard
drive of parchment. The technological and medicinal enhancement of
human ability should then be part of a continuum of progress. This
is evolution - or is it?
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NPR, June 1, 2006
Home for Seniors Trades
Privacy for Security: Lydia Lundberg and her husband, Bill Reed,
have developed a technology that allows them to track the several dozen
residents who live at Oatfield Estates, the assisted-living facility
they own in Oregon.
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Tech Blog, June, 2006
Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of
the Future: This week, our editors have compiled a list of the "Top 10
Strangest Gadgets of the Future", from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD
screens, it's all here.
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