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Global CO2 Emissions in 2010 Hit Highest Level Ever

By Muriel Boselli PARIS (Reuters) - Global emissions of carbon dioxide hit their highest level ever in 2010, with the growth driven mainly by booming coal-reliant emerging economies, the International Energy Agency's Chief Economist said on Monday. [More]

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Big Plans for Nanotechnology in Russia

MOSCOW, RUSSIA. “As has often happened in Russia, we have had the priority in scientific invention, but completely lose the market,” Anatoly Chubais, chief executive of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, Rusnano[www.rusnano.com], told members of the Scientific American international editions during a visit today

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No X-aggeration

Companies and individuals are often at odds, concerned either with collecting information or with preserving privacy. Online stores and services are always eager to know more about their customers--income, age, tastes--whereas most of us are not eager to reveal much.

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Poulter finally passes by Tiger

PGT: Three-and-a-half years ago, Ian Poulter said he would eventually be the lone challenger to Tiger Woods because no one could stand up to Woods like the Englishman.

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PGT: It took 3-plus years, but Poulter passes Tiger

PGT: Three-and-a-half years ago, Ian Poulter said he would eventually be the lone challenger to Tiger Woods because no one could stand up to Woods like the Englishman. Now, it's official.

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Winning Argument: As a ‘New’ Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful

Now and then, scientists tout an idea so crushingly obvious that I assume I'm missing something. Case in point: the anthropic principle, which proclaims that reality has to be as we observe it to be because otherwise we wouldn't be here to observe it. I've always been baffled as to why smart people, like Stephen Hawking , take this tautology seriously

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Video: Aging and exercise

Doctors say the older you are, the more exercise you need. Priya David Clemons reports on aging and fitness, and how one group of trainers is encouraging the senior crowd to head back to the gym

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We’re in This Together

Anxiety, it seems, varies widely from one person to the next. What leaves you in a knot of angst may not even faze your friend. But two new studies show that during a crisis, anxiety seems to be contagious; you and your friends will probably ultimately arrive at the same anxiety level

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