By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - A solid shift to green technologies in world farming is vital if endemic food crises are to be overcome and production boosted to support the global population, the United Nations said on Tuesday. [More]
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By Declan Butler of Nature magazine Key weapons in the fight against malaria, pyrethroid insecticides, are losing their edge.
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If European lawmakers have their way, by next year any American flying from Boston to Paris will have to pay for the plane's carbon emissions over Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Ocean and France.
Read More »Cisco’s Tech Just One Of Many New Ways China Could Spy On Its People
Chongqing city, China, is about to get a giant Orwellian surveillance network of half a million cameras that will spy on (sorry, act to prevent crime in) areas like street intersections, parks and neighborhoods. Cisco is rumored to be one of the key pieces in the network supplying, basically, the networking tech itself--the grease that'll make the whole integrated shebang work
Read More »GolfChannel: Tiger has long rehab ahead
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Read More »Late-talking children grow up to be fine, says study
Behavioral problems seen in late-talking two-year-old children disappeared by age five
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PGT: If Tiger Woods doesn't play in the PGA Championship, he might not return until 2012.
Read More »Pinched By A Virgin
How "special" Legos, "stolen" salt shakers, and mysterious airport packages help brands over-deliver. A couple of months ago, as I boarded my plane home to Australia, I found a large brown envelope waiting for me on my seat. Neat handwriting on the envelope said, "A personal note to Mr Lindstrom." My curiosity was piqued
Read More »Heart disease silently kills women, says study: How?
America's leading cause of death is harder to detect in women, often missed in standard cardiac tests
Read More »PGT: Tiger to miss British Open
PGT: Tiger Woods announced Tuesday on his website that he would miss the British Open, the second consecutive major he's missed with leg injuries.
Read More »Italian Police Vs. Anonymous, Rare Earth Find, Microsoft In China, Millions Of iPhone 5s, Fox News Hack, Google Loses Realtime
Italian cops nab Anonymous hackers, Japan finds rare earths key to electronics, Google's missing Realtime search. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day
Read More »Carmageddon’s Hollywood Ending? Crowdsourcing Will Help L.A. Survive Sans 405
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Read More »How a War Protest Can Increase Support for the War
Lafayette, California is a small, affluent town situated in a cluster of rolling hills twenty miles to the east of San Francisco.
Read More »Should Tiger sit rest of season?
PGT: Tiger Woods shouldn't return until completely healthy, even if he has to miss the rest of the season, Ian Poulter says.
Read More »10 hangover remedies: What works?
You drank too much during the Fourth of July barbecue - now what?
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