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 Hartford Courant 
Colombia shifts from drugs to food in farm expansion
Mon 23 May 2011
| BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia plans to nearly double agricultural land growing crops for food and biofuel, part of a new investment boom in the country as violence ebbs from a decades-long internal co... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
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 Processingtalk 
UK's green growth requires home-made plastic waste
Mon 23 May 2011
| Axion Polymers has echoed industry concerns over increasing shortages of usable plastics waste in the UK and joined calls to reduce the country's dependence on export of valuable waste streams. | Th... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Headset  The Examiner  Mon 23 May 2011
Is your headset safe?
| Little did I know that my cell phone headset could be sending me radiation until I found out about a unique alternative called the "airtube headset" where the copper wire ends about 6 inches from th... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
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Industrial Air Pollution, Pune, India  Houston Chronicle  Sun 22 May 2011
Foreign air pollution blowing into state costs Texas
| Houston is known as a smog factory, but wind-borne pollution from Mexico and other countries is partly to blame for our bad air. | That means oil refiners, chemical makers and other heavy industries... (photo: WN / Geeta)
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Chocolate cupcake - Sugar - Food The Examiner Sun 22 May 2011
How much protein should you feed your children at breakfast time?
| How much protein should you feed your children at breakfast to keep them from craving sweets, bread, cheese, fats, chips, pretzels, cake, candy, sodas, or various junk ... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Children   Foods   Nutrition   Photos   Wikipedia: Protein  
The Guardian Sun 22 May 2011
Americans take a gamble with the Mississippi floods
| This year's floods have brought more hardship along the Mississippi, but have efforts to control the river made matters worse? A levee protects a house from the flooded... (photo: US Army / US Army)
Floods   Mississippi   Natural Disasters   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Mississippi River floods  
Smoker - Cigarette The Grio Sun 22 May 2011
Lung cancer: Not just a smoker's disease
| © Chris Gardiner - Fotolia.com | Cigarette smoking is certainly a major risk factor for lung cancer. But, it is not the only factor. Although black men smoke less than... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
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Waste - Garbage - Plastic - Bottles - Trash The Hindu Sun 22 May 2011
Plastic manufacturers unhappy with new rules on waste
| R. Ramabhadran Pillai | Over a lakh of workers in the State will face a bleak future | Plastic manufacturers to approach Centre | 'New rules will render workers jobless... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
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Gold - Jewellery The Hindu Sun 22 May 2011
Forever gold
| After a slump in 2009, gold is back in vogue and how... In spite of soaring prices, Indians are buying it like never before, both as jewellery and as an investment. SAT... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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This government is of the very palest green despite its claims The Observer Sun 22 May 2011
This government is of the very palest green despite its claims
| Amid all the fanfare about the UK setting emissions targets, let's not forget that this self-styled "greenest government ever" has had a calamitous first year ("Coaliti... (photo: European Community / EC)
Coalition   EU   Emissions   Green   Photos   Wikipedia: Emission standard  
File - View of the area around Ny-lesund, located on Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, September 1, 2009. Al Jazeera Sat 21 May 2011
WikiLeaks: A battle to 'carve up' the Arctic
| It is considered the final frontier for oil and gas exploitation, and secret US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks confirm that nations are battling to "carve up" th... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
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