Countries producing food containing harmful bacteria and toxins could be named and shamed more quickly using a worldwide alert system
devised by a team of scientists from Kingston University in South West London. The team, led by Professor Declan Naughton, says the easy to use computer tool can be used to monitor [...]
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UK Scientists Devise Worldwide Food Alert System
Sunday, March 21st, 2010America’s Real Dream Team
Sunday, March 21st, 2010THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Went to a big Washington dinner last week. You know the kind: Large hall; black ties; long dresses. But this was no ordinary dinner. There were 40 guests of honor. So here’s my Sunday news quiz: I’ll give you the names of most of the honorees, and you tell me [...]
Texts Without Context
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In his deliberately provocative — and deeply nihilistic — new book, “Reality Hunger,” the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction “has never seemed less central to the culture’s sense of itself.” He says he’s “bored by out-and-out fabrication, by myself and others; bored by invented plots [...]
China’s Growth Shifts the Geopolitics of Oil
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Last summer, Saudi Arabia put the final bolt in its largest oil expansion project ever, opening a new field capable of pumping 1.2 million barrels a day — more than the entire production of Texas. The field, called Khurais, was part of an ambitious $60 billion program to increase [...]
3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings From Solid Rock
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Imagine a 3-d printer so large that it can spit out entire buildings made from stone.
Sounds science fiction-y, right? But that’s exactly what designer Enrico Dini created with his prototype D-Shape printer. Dini hopes to use the printer to create buildings made of stone and eventually, moon dust.
The printing [...]











































