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...fact that kangaroos run free helps keep their meat cheap. Because there's no need for complex infrastructure, feed or veterinary care, it costs 20-30% less than beef. Kangaroos also do less damage to Australian soil than millions of hard-hoofed cows and sheep. And unlike ruminants, which produce gases that contribute 11% of Australia's greenhouse-gas emissions, kangaroos are naturally low greenhouse-gas emitters. The industry got a boost last fall when Ross Garnaut, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser, issued a global-warming report urging Australians to chuck their beef and lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kangaroo: It's What's For Dinner | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...picture-perfect New York City moment, and it's only after the director yells "Cut!" that you'd notice that the façade over Gallagher's right shoulder is in fact the 100-year-old Ford Building in downtown Detroit. This scene, along with every other from the legal drama Betty Anne Waters, starring Hilary Swank, is being filmed in Michigan, the new Hollywood of the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Detroit | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Skype's popularity underscores the fact that even wireless providers who consider themselves leading edge are increasingly viewed as utilities that provide a basic service like water or power. What matters most to users is the latest iPhone or BlackBerry with the sleekest applications. These added pressures to the customer base and bottom line may turn out to be for the telecom industry what the automobile was to the horse. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom predicts that in less than a decade, telcos and cablecos will be on the bottom of the telecom food chain, faceless operators of low-value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nortel's Nadir | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...April 30 sports article "Freshman Manager Becomes Teammate" incorrectly stated that West Resendes had double cochlear implants. In fact, he received only one cochlear implant...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Manager Becomes Teammate | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...think that the fact that he is able to think beyond science and understand the complexity of the issues and learn from other fields are what you need in a person that will be a sounding board for the president,” Holbrook said...

Author: By Emma M. Benintende, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Will Serve On Obama Council | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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