| Nanotechnology: The Smallest Green Revolution?
A new report from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies touts "green" nanotechnology, and calls for Federal oversight. SocialFunds.com -- As the scientific field of nanotechnology develops, there is a great opportunity for the field to be "green" from the get go declares the report "Green nanotechnology: Its Easier than you Think." Although much of the role nanotechnologies could play in mopping up current environmental messes and preventing future ones is still hypothetical, there are already many products available using nanotechnologies that could be considered "green." Furthermore, the report calls on the federal government to create policies and oversight on nanotechnology. Critics of "green" applications of nanotechnology agree that federal oversight is necessary while defenders and critics of green nano-products strongly disagree on how money should spent and invested on these microscopic creations.
New wave of defaults on ARMs could hit soon
The no-worries lending that inflated the housing bubble is resulting in a flood of soured option-ARM loans, adjust able-rate mortgages that allow borrowers to pay so little every month that their loan balances rise rather than fall, sometimes sharply. Numbers from industry trackers suggest that these borrowers most of whom boast respectable and often top-tier credit scores and appear to have substantial incomes and home equity are starting to create a second tide of defaults for lenders swamped by the meltdown in subprime loans made to people with bad credit or overstretched finances. .
Liberals would set up $1-billion fund to help manufacturing: Dion
Of cousre Oilberta never sucked the teet of the U.S. where most of the provinces oil goes. When Ontario was carrying the country and oil was about 20 bucks the Oilbertans were whining then. Here it is 2008 and they can't stop. Don't worry as the economy of the country slows and the price of oil drops we'll still hear the whining of the oilbertans. Posted 18/01/08 at 1:15 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
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Jacob Roberts is the model college applicant. He has spent a year and a half surfing through Web sites that discuss campuses. He has visited Tulane, Stanford, UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania, and he's talked to graduates of his high school about their experiences at college. .
Hematech sets sights on 2015
The founder of a Sioux Falls-based biotechnology firm hopes the biotechnology used to clone two cows can someday be used to manufacture and develop drugs to treat everything from staph infections to Alzheimer's disease.
"We hope by 2015 to have our initial revenue, and by 2020, we hope to be an established company with substantial development," said founder and president Jim Robl. "We would like to become a major biotechnology company with multibillion dollars a year in revenue. We feel with the products we are developing there are multiple blockbuster applications."
Robl offered his lofty comments after a news conference Thursday to celebrated the 10th birthdays this month of two cloned steers, Charlie and George. The two animals led to the creation of Hematech.
Nine bookstores worth traveling for
Tourists also like to stop in at the bar next door, Vesuvio, to have a drink where Kerouac once bellied up.
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO.: 101 S. Main St., Seattle; http://www.elliottbaybook.com/ or 800-962-5311. Elliott Bay Book Co. is located in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square district, once the city's Skid Row but now known for nightclubs, galleries, sports arenas and architecture - including the 1867 red-brick building that houses Elliott Bay. Cedar shelves offer 150,000 new and used titles in rooms with exposed brick walls, and one or two readings are held every night. "It can be anyone from a first-time poet to Dave Sedaris returning for his 10th time," said Elliott Bay spokeswoman Tracy Taylor. "We had him here when nobody knew who he was and there were 15 people in the audience.
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