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A method for sorting nanotubes by electronic properties could make widespread nanotube-based electronics a reality.

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Chinese Government has been opposing His Holiness the Dalai Lama
’s trip to different parts of the world. This time His Holiness visit to Japan is no difference. Chinese Government vehemently opposed Japan’s decision to have His Holiness in their country, even though this visit was meant to be a non-political, spiritual related. Historicall

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“NINETEEN hundred and thirty-six will be the year of the big television explosion!” The impending “explosion” is the eruption of television out of the laboratory into commercial refinement.

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Manufactured silk could be used for artificial tendons and ligaments, sutures, parachutes and bulletproof vests. A team of MIT engineers has identified two key physical processes that lend spider silk its unrivaled strength and durability, bringing closer to reality the long-sought goal of spinning artificial spider silk.

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“Google’s first “Sponsored Video” had it’s debut. Titled The Domino Effect, it’s Diet Coke and Mentos part II from the guys in white lab coats - EepyBird. It’s sponsored, believe it or not, by Coca Cola and Mentos. The original video the pair made was much more entertaining and brought them a reported $35,000 via the Revver revenue sharing system.”

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The most dangerous tourist route in the world is located in Tibet

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Marijuana comes in at #1 with 140 billion. Pirated Web Videos comes in at #5 with 60 billion. Pirated Software comes in at #7 with 34 billion. Pirated Movies comes in at #16 with 6.1 billion. Smuggled gas and oil comes in at #18 with 5.2 billion. Pirated music comes in at #20 with 4.5 billion. Pirated Video Games comes in at #23 with 3 billion.

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Title says it all….

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British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.

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Circulation at the nation’s largest newspapers plunged over the last six months. Though the industry has felt consecutive declines over the last five years, the Newspaper Association of America said that the figures for the latest period were “the largest variance year over year” of which it was aware.

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The fried chicken sold in all 5,500 KFC restaurants in the United States will soon be cooked with a soybean-based oil that contains no trans fat, the company announced Monday.

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“…a promising step toward identifying potential components to combine into a vaccine designed for people at high risk of invasive S. aureus infection,” says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.

S. aureus, the most common agent of hospital-acquired infection, as well as other nasty infections, including food poisoning.

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