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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 23 (Opinion) - The antitrust division will not say if it is investigating Monsanto. But in recent months, it has asked Monsanto and its competitors for information to determine whether Monsanto is breaching antitrust laws.

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Forecast for Microsoft: Partly Cloudy

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ashlee Vance - Oct. 18 (Special Report) - These days, however, Microsoft has legions of doubters. While it still commands a prominent and profitable position in computing, brand experts say consumers stumble when trying to define what the company stands for and whether it can create a grander technological future.

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Our Misplaced Faith in High-Tech Medicine

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Health Care Blog - By Merrill Goozner - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - The public religiously believes there will be a technological fix for the hundreds of diseases that may hit us as our bodies degenerate, and tithes accordingly. Any effort to limit prices for what must be paid for new technologies is met with cries from industry that it will stifle innovation. The taxpayers provide the seed corn for new technology by investing nearly $30 billion a year in basic research through the National Institutes of Health and other government health-related programs (this year supplemented with $10 billion in stimulus act funds).

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Smart grids: Clever, but unprincipled

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - The technology is not inherently frugal or green. It can be used to deliver not just clean renewable energy more efficiently, but also the grubby coal-fired sort. By reducing the need for expensive backup capacity, it may actually reduce the cost of electricity, and so encourage consumption. The very fact that utilities and their customers, tree-huggers and industrialists alike are all keen on it hints at the many different ends to which it can be turned.

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In Netherlands, Insurers Compete Over Quality of Care

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

NewsHour - By Ray Suarez - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - By world standards, the Dutch are wealthy and healthy, but the country's changing. With each year, it's home to more Dutch elderly and more young immigrants from the developing world. The queen opened a parliament once again wrestling over health care, still trying to contain costs after a massive overhaul designed four years ago.

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The Future of Health Care Is Social

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Jennifer Kilian, Barbara Pantuso - Oct. 06 (Special Report) - Too many of us are too busy to be healthy--not because we lack awareness. We know what we need to do. It's finding the time to do it that's the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity that requires our near-constant vigilance, time feels more pressed than ever. Yet, it may be that the very technology allowing us this around-the-clock connection can transform how we manage our health.

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College for $99 a Month

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Monthly - By Kevin Carey - Oct. 05 (Special Report) - Colleges are caught in the same kind of debt-fueled price spiral that just blew up the real estate market. They’re also in the information business in a time when technology is driving down the cost of selling information to record, destabilizing lows.

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The Evolution Of Technology In Schools

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Daniel Brusilovsky - Oct. 05 (Opinion) - Schools try to keep up with the current technology trends, especially in Silicon Valley, the home of technology innovation. You would think that schools in Silicon Valley would be the most up to date on technology—with the latest computers, projectors, drawing boards—but coming from a first hand perspective, as a student at a local school, it’s the complete opposite. I go to a high school where there are no technology classes that even teach students the basics of web development, or video production, or anything of that matter.

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Build a Better Bulb, Win $10 Million

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ERIC A. TAUB, LEORA BROYDO VESTEL - Sep. 25 (News Report) - The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first company that figures out how to do it.

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The Financial Crisis and America’s Casino Culture

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Peter S. Goodman - Sep. 20 (News Analysis) - Optimism and individualism are in the country’s DNA. When does a financial shock change that?

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The well-deserved success of Mint.com, and what other Web businesses can learn from it.

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Daniel Gross - Sep. 20 (News Analysis) - Mint.com has benefitted from a cultural shift as well as a technological one. During the free-spending housing bubble, a Web site that encouraged people to manage spending, comparison-shop, and save was definitely out of step with the prevailing mood. But once the financial and housing markets tanked and the nation went into recession, the zeitgeist shifted. Shrinking top lines have caused people to focus on the bottom line, and the savings rate has spiked. Third homes and luxury goods are out; coupons and growing your own vegetables are in. Saving is the new borrowing.

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Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

apnews.excite.com - Sep. 13 (News Report) - Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas.....Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives..

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Spacecraft 'could surf gravitational tubes' to make solar travel more efficient

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Andy Bloxham - Sep. 12 (News Report) - Scientists in the US are trying to map the twisting "tubes" so they can be used to cut the cost of space travel. Each one acts like a gravitational version of the Gulf Stream, created from the complex interplay of forces between planets and moons.

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Zappos, the online shoe shopping utopia

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Alexandra Jacobs - Sep. 09 (Special Report) - Owning a large collection of shoes in various styles and colors has, in the past decade, gone from being considered a sign of ultimate imperial excess (Imelda Marcos) to a constitutional right of the average American woman, and Zappos is at least partly responsible.

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The life lessons of Burning Man

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Mark Morford - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - As I've been lured back to the sweltering, dusty sexed-up madness that is Burning Man again this year -- my sixth time -- by a gaggle of delicious friends, I am hereby reminded of a few hundred truths, half-truths, outright lies and astonishing epiphanies offered up by the world-famous, Christian-feared, beautifully debauched, sensory overloaded, impossible-to-describe art-survivalist-camping-rave megaspectacle now underway in the remote Nevada desert.

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Company size: Big is back

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Aug. 27 (Special Report) - Many of today’s most dynamic industries are much more friendly to big companies than the IT industry. Research in biotechnology is costly and often does not bear fruit for years. Natural-resource companies, whose importance grows as competition for resources intensifies, need to be big—hence the mining industry’s consolidation.

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On to Plan B: Starting a Business

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mickey Meece - Aug. 23 (Special Report) - CALL them accidental entrepreneurs, unintended entrepreneurs or forced entrepreneurs. A year and a half into the Great Recession, with the jobless rate hovering near double digits, corporate refugees like Lisa Marie Grillos of San Francisco are trying to fend for themselves.

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For Twitter, Sharing Data WIth Google Would Be Suicide

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Edo Segal - Aug. 22 (Opinion) - Guest author Edo Segal ( @edosegal ) has launched and sold several companies. In 2000 he founded eNow , a search engine for the Real-time Internet in an age that predated RSS as a popular medium. As such he has had a decade to think about its implications. He ultimately sold the company (renamed...

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Privatized welfare plan price swells ::

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 22 (News Report) - Indiana will spend nearly $180 million more than it initially planned to privatize and automate many of its welfare functions just two years into a closely watched 10-year deal that is one of the most lucrative contracts in state history. The cost of the $1.16 billion contract Gov. Mitch Daniels signed in late 2006 has risen 15 percent, to $1.34 billion, under changes made to the agreement with a group led by Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp.

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U.S. to Dole Out $1.2 Billion for Health Records Technology

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert O'Harrow, Jr. - Aug. 21 (News) - Biden said about half the grant money would help establish 70 technology-extension centers that will assist hospitals and other medical providers in choosing and utilizing the equipment. The rest is directed to state initiatives to create or expand medical information sharing networks. Billions more is set to flow to doctors, hospitals and other care providers next year in the form of reimbursements for the equipment they buy.

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Obama Addresses Veterans — A Constituency That Benefits From A Public Health Insurance Plan

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Igor - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - Today, President Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, AZ. In his speech, Obama reassured veterans about his health care plan: “One thing that reform won’t change is veterans health care. No one is going to take away your benefits.” Still, many veterans are reportedly wary of health reform. But ironically, one of [...]

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Solar Industry: No Breakthroughs Needed

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MIT Technology Review - By Kevin Bullis - Aug. 03 (News Report) - The solar industry says incremental advances have made transformational technologies unnecessary.

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A Biofuel Process to Replace All Fossil Fuels

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MIT Technology Review - By Kevin Bullis - Jul. 29 (News Report) - Joule Biotechnologies grows genetically engineered microorganisms in specially designed photobioreactors. The microorganisms use energy from the sun to convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol or hydrocarbon fuels (such as diesel or components of gasoline). The organisms excrete the fuel, which can then be collected using conventional chemical-separation technologies.

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The Health-Care Sacrifice

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Jul. 26 (Editorial) - President Obama sometimes presents health-care reform as a pain-free proposition, as simple as choosing the red pill over the blue -- one that's no more effective but costs twice as much. Asked at his news conference whether "the American people are going to have to give anything up in order for this to happen," Mr. Obama's basic answer was no. "They're going to have to give up paying for things that don't make them healthier," he said.

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Where might Gordon Brown bump into scientists, poets, internet gurus, and even Cameron (Diaz, that is)? At TED, the festival of new ideas

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Carole Cadwalladr - Jul. 26 (Opinion) - It's a confusing place, the world of TED. Not just because that for an event which prides itself on its cleverness, it has a name that makes it sound like some sort of football jock, but because, one minute you're listening to a talk about how an artificial brain is just 10 years off completion and the next you're thinking, oh look there's Cameron Diaz. And then, in an unscheduled departure from the timetable, Gordon Brown walks on to the stage. Even more confusingly, he receives not one standing ovation, but two! They cheer. They applaud. They, actually, whoop. But at TED, I discover, all things are possible - including a belief in an infinite number of parallel universes, in one of which Brown is the most popular man in Britain.

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