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Low-Maintenance Strawberry May Be Good Crop To Grow In SpaceWest Lafayette IN (SPX) May 05, 2010 Astronauts could one day tend their own crops on long space missions, and Purdue University researchers have found a healthy candidate to help satisfy a sweet tooth - a strawberry that requires little maintenance and energy. Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, and Gioia Massa, a horticulture research scientist, tested several cultivars of strawberries and found one variety, named Seascape, which seems to meet the requirements for becoming a space crop. "What we're trying to do is grow ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 5, 2010More than 2,000 babies have been born in China to women who lost their children in a 2008 earthquake thanks to a government programme that includes artificial insemination, state media said Wednesday. A total of 3,140 women had become pregnant under the programme, which also provided free medical treatment, with 2,106 giving birth so far, the Global Times said, quoting government figures. ... more  
Vienna (AFP) May 4, 2010If you've run out of juice for your environmentally friendly electric car, a recharge may be only a phone call away, literally, under a new scheme unveiled by Telekom Austria here Tuesday. The telecommunications company has decided to turn its public telephone boxes - which are in danger of becoming obsolete anyway thanks to mobile phones - into battery recharging stations for electric car ... more  
College Park, Md. (UPI) May 4, 2010 Growing up in the shadow of New York's Belmont Park, I learned success in finance is much like running a book. After all, parimutuel wagers are derivatives - contracts to pay contingent on the future value of an asset, namely horse's ability to finish in the money - win, place or show. Track owners profit from the public's appetite for risk and reward, much as does Goldman Sach ... more |
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Germany launches electric car initiativeBerlin (UPI) May 4, 2010 The German government and the country's carmakers have teamed for a major push into electric mobility. German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Monday in Berlin with 400 officials from politics, science as well as automobile and energy industry to streamline the country's electric mobility efforts. Merkel said Germans were the first to build cars and excelled in doing so in the 20th century. It's therefore important, she added, "that in the 21st century we are again the nation that is able to ... read more |
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