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Science & Policy News
November 2005
New York Times, November 29, 2005 What's the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don't Want to Hear It: A novel device has been invented in hopes of providing a solution to the eternal problem of obstreperous teenagers who hang around outside stores and cause trouble. Read
more Flood Safety in New Orleans Could Take Billions and Decades: Building Category 5 protection is proving to be an astronomically expensive and complex proposition, with much more than higher levees to build.
Daily Yomiuri Online, November 28, 2005 Services aid elderly living alone: A growing number of services are being provided to help people check on their elderly parents living alone and far away. Read
more Air Guitarists' Rock Dreams Come True: Aspiring rock gods can at last create their own guitar solos - without ever having to pick up a real instrument, thanks to a group of Finnish computer science students.
ABC News, November 21, 2005 Is Wildlife Going the Way of McDonald's?: Just as city blocks across the United States are starting to look more and more the same, so are wildlife populations. Read
more Donor Issue Slows Stem Cell Progress: An ethics crisis at one of the world's most successful human embryonic stem cell laboratories has plunged the controversial field of research into a new swirl of uncertainty, with U.S. scientists nervously wondering if the scandal will grow into a new wave of political backlash. Read
more Glowing Meat Alarms Australians: Australians have been told there is no need to panic after a recent "glow-in-the-dark pork chop" scare.
azcentral, November 13, 2005 Wildfires decimating saguaros: After decades of surviving developers, vandals, thieves, cattle, drought and frost, Arizona's quintessential symbol, the giant saguaro, is under a withering assault by wildfires, an enemy now more insidious than all the others combined. Read
more A desert without saguaros: It could happen, researchers say: Experts say large stands of naturally growing saguaros could someday disappear from the desert surrounding Phoenix because of the fragmenting of their habitat through development and wildfire. Read
more Enlisting Cellphone Signals to Fight Road Gridlock: Several state transportation agencies, including those in Maryland and Virginia, are starting to test technology that allows them to monitor traffic by tracking cellphone signals and mapping them against road grids. Read
more Genetic Find Stirs Debate on Race-Based Medicine: In a finding that is likely to sharpen discussion about the merits of race-based medicine, an Icelandic company says it has detected a version of a gene that raises the risk of heart attack in African-Americans by more than 250 %. Read
more African science academies 'must give policy advice': Africa's science academies should do more to advise their governments on key issues that affect the continent, a conference in Kenya has heard. Read
more Manila Jump Starts Biofuel Program: The House of Representatives approved a bill to initiate a biofuel program to replace within four years a 10th of national gasoline consumption with a “VAT-free cheap clean gas." Read
more After the Hurricanes, A Questions Mark on the Coastline: Geologists call for a nonpartisan commission to evaluate where federal money for rebuilding should - and should not - go.
Washington Post, November 7, 2005 When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation: Environmentalists are gaining a new ally in their efforts pushing Congress to pass legislation on global warming.
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