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Business ethics gone without TRACE (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 09:01:08
| "We are old friends by now," says the official, spooning sugar into his coffee. "And friends take care of each other."
He places the sugar bowl back on the silver tray and slides it toward you. "We are friends, aren't we?" he asks when you hesitate. "As friends, we would like to help you, because as friends we know you will help us."
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Hungry Sharks Take Strange Walks To Find Food (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 09:01:08
| The results of the international study shows that the animals’ behaviour seems to have evolved as a general ”rule’ to search for sparsely distributed prey in the vast expanse of the ocean. This rule involves a special pattern of random movement known as a Levy Walk, where the predators use a series of small motions interspersed with large jumps to new foraging locations. This increases the chance of finding food, however widely scattered it might be. |
Aging Hybrids Rejuvenated? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 09:01:08
| Both Toyota and Honda make excellent cars. The motors, the bodywork, the interiors, the transmissions, the electrical bits, all first rate. Sure, there are occasional problems, some expensive to fix, and sure, items wear out and have to be replaced, but both companies build cars that can be driven 150,000; 200,000 perhaps as much as 300,000 miles with a little love and care. |
Body Heat”and Power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 09:01:08
| Concerns about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions are instilling a new dynamism —and fueling something of a renaissance - in alternative energy research and development. It’s increasingly apparent even to lay observers like myself that there’s potential energy — in widely varying degrees and at widely varying scales — in natural processes all around us. |
Will global warming increase plant frost damage? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 09:01:08
| Widespread damage to plants from a sudden freeze that occurred across the Eastern United States from 5 April to 9 April 2007 was made worse because it had been preceded by two weeks of unusual warmth, according to an analysis published in the March 2008 issue of BioScience. The authors of the report, Lianhong Gu and his colleagues at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and collaborators at NASA, the University of Missouri, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found that the freeze killed new leaves, shoots, flowers, and fruit of natural vegetation, caused crown dieback of trees, and led to severe damage to crops in an area encompassing Nebraska, Maryland, South Carolina, and Texas. Subsequent drought limited regrowth. |
Protesters and whalers clash in Southern Ocean (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 09:01:08
| CANBERRA (Reuters) - Anti-whaling activists clashed with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean on Monday, prompting a diplomatic complaint from Tokyo to Canberra and a rebuke for the activists from the Australian government.
Members of the hardline Sea Shepherd group threw bottles and containers of foul-smelling substances at the Japanese factory ship the Nisshin Maru as part of the organization's campaign to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt. |
What happens if China’s “one child” is left behind? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-03-2008 at 04:01:03
| Based on a senior official’s remarks, it looks like China may soon relax its one-child policy. That has raised fears among some demographers that the country will experience a massive baby boom once the reproductive shackles come off, and hence “could overturn predictions of an imminent end to global population growth,” in the words of New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin.
Almost one in five human beings is Chinese (1.3 billion out of a global total of 6.7 billion), so the country matters immensely to human numbers. But there’s an assumption embedded in this discussion that deserves to be challenged. |
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