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• Schwarzenegger terminates trans fats in California

  LOS ANGELES (AFP) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new law Friday that will see artificial trans fats outlawed in restaurants across the most populous US state from 2010.

• Microloans Pay Off for Planet, Investors

  The number of "microborrowers" worldwide-people participating in the rapidly growing field of microfinance-increased by 17 percent in 2006, benefiting both communities and the environment, according to the latest Vital Signs Update released by the Worldwatch Institute.

• Non-GMO Soybeans Show 10% Greater Yield

  Pioneer Hi-Bred, a Johnston-based unit of DuPont, launched Thursday what it is calling "a new generation" of soybean varieties designed to increase soybean yields by 40 percent during the next 10 years. Pioneer president and DuPont vice president and general manager Paul Schickler said the new Y se ...

• ‘Green’ Clothing Offers More Than Eco ...

  Cheap clothing and electronics have led many consumers to treat those products as disposable items.

• High-Performance, Low-Pollution: German Cars Go Gr ...

  German cars are renowned for their engineering, luxury and performance, but with gas prices soaring, CO2 emissions building and car sales slumping, when the German brands talk about their new "green" approach, people listen.

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• RED Announces Hardware from the Future

  In true uber-hype fashion, the RED Company announced today a series of cameras and imaging sensors that will revolutionize the movie (and still image) industry. Some commenters online jokingly said that this is where all the Roswell UFO reverse-engineering went into. RED announced sensors ranging fr ...

• Ubuntu-on-ARM to Target Handhelds

  Canonical Ltd., commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, says it's porting Ubuntu to the ARM RISC processor architecture. Ubuntu on ARM will target netbooks and other emerging device categories requiring a "rich, always-connected, mobile computing experience, without compromising battery life." The ARM v ...

• Windows Live Gets Complete Overhaul, Adds Social N ...

  Among all the Windows 7 announcements, one of the more surprising ones was about things the new OS would not include â€" specifically, applications for e-mail, photos, and video editing. Instead, Microsoft decided that these programs would be updated and downloadable as part of the Windows Live Es ...

• Major Scammer/Spammer Now Offline

  McColo Corp, an internet service provider that has been confirmed to be the provider of choice to a rogue's gallery of unsavory clients, has been cut off by its backbone providers, cutting the world's total volume of spam by as much as 75%. Sadly, these people will undoubtedly be able to find other ...

• Intel's Core i7: In-Depth Reviews

  Not too long ago, Intel unleashed Nehalem, or Core i7, upon the world. The new Core i7 chips are not just new processors; they also introduce an entirely new platform, and this combination produces some impressive performance figures, according to Ars Technica. "The new performance gap between Nehal ...

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• Inflammatory Republican rallies raise concerns

  Shouts of "terrorist" and even accusations of "treason" aimed at Barack Obama have echoed around Republican rallies, whipped up into alarming, hate-filled frenzies against the Democratic White House hopeful. One banner in the crowd declared: "Go ahead, let the dogs out."

• 22 of the World's Most Creative Alphabets

  There are so many crazy ways to write the ABC's. It's a great creative exercise - it would do me well to try my own when I hit a creative slump. I'm amazed at the ingenuity of some of these. This collection of alphabets was gathered from the portfolios of artists, photographers and design students a ...

• 9 Ways You'll $ave in the New Depression

  Don't worry about the banks, the crash, or the bailout. Yes, things will getworse. A lot worse. Worse than you ever imagined, probably. But you've been in tough spots before. Remember when you lost your job and went on unemployment for a while? This will be like that, only it will last for years.

• Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution

  Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we don't know about the secrets hidden in our genome and that of other animals.

• McCainonomics: Freeze Spending! Spend Freely! Wher ...

  St. Petersburgh Times editorial, after the McCain/Palin hurricane blew through: McCain recklessly floats unfocused big ideas and leaves them hanging in the air without explanation. He repeated his pledge from the first debate to freeze federal spending ... but said he'd ask taxpayers to foot the bil ...

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• The Autumns – 01 The End

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• The Autumns – 10 Wish Stars

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• The Weakerthans – (Past-Due)

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• Michael Cera and Ellen Page – Anyone Else But Yo ...

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• Cut Copy – Strangers in the Wind

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• Transformers 2 is No. 1, breaking holiday weekend ...

  The big frakkin' robots appear to have won out over the woolly mammoths after all. Updated studio estimates released today show that Paramount's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was No. 1 in the photo-finish race for box-office supremacy this weekend, topping the domestic pack with $42.4 million, ...

• Harry Potter stars honor murdered Half-Blood Princ ...

  The cast and crew of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will wear white ribbons on their wrists at the film's world premiere in Leicester Square Tuesday as a mark of respect to murdered actor Rob Knox, BBC News reported. Knox, 18, who portrays Marcus Belby in the film, was stabbed in southeast ...

• Columnist Michael Cassutt overdoses on Star Trek' ...

  Somewhere between watching the first half-hour of the new Star Trek film and, five days later, the season finale of Lost , something happened. You know how it is when you have that second piece of dessert? It tastes great at the time. The sensory delights linger through the after-dinner drinks a ...

• Why Hollywood stuntmen think The Matrix changed ev ...

  Matrix producer Joel Silver changed the rules of the game and made Hollywood stunt history when he traveled to China to beg reluctant action director Yuen Wo-Ping to choreograph the fighting for the film, according to an informal poll by author Kevin Conley.

• Megan Fox burns up the screen in R-rated Jennifer ...

  Megan Fox, the hottest thing in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , is even hotter as the demon-possessed high school cheerleader of Jennifer's Body —especially when she sticks her tongue in the flame of a cigarette lighter in the new "red band trailer" released earlier today at ShockTillYouDr ...