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...Bayer. The three-year-old company has been awarded grants from the EPA and the National Science Foundation, as well as the Department of Agriculture--because its mushrooms feast on empty seed husks from rice or cotton. "You can't even feed it to animals," says Bayer of this kind of agricultural waste. "It's basically trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industrial-Strength Fungus | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...hard for us to score inside,” said Harvard coach Tommy Amaker, who played just three forwards. “It puts a lot of pressure on those perimeter shooters. I thought that our shooting, or inability to make some open shots,...really kind of zapped our spirit...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rally Falls Short as Harvard Drops Heartbreaker | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...seem almost trite, but it is a revolutionary demand in countries such as Iran and China where it threatens the regimes' hold on power. That's the reason that one third of the world that has any access to internet sees a version censored by their governments. Declaring a kind of soft war on this new information curtain being drawn across the "new iconic infrastructure of our age", the U.S. is now committing itself to actively undermining censorship. In China, that means going up against some 50,000 government employees and the '50 Cent Party' - the many thousands of youths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Girds for a Fight for Internet Freedom | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...Internationally, the new emphasis on enabling the skirting of Internet censorship amounts to a shift from traditional public diplomacy to a kind of Internet democracy activism. Where the former relied on tools such as Voice of America radio broadcasts to all corners of the globe, the latter emphasizes the U.S. promoting indigenous voice in countries that curb free speech, says NYU telecommunications professor Clay Shirky, adding that enabling citizens to express themselves "is way more threatening than Voice of America-style broadcasts, and autocratic governments will react to that." Thus far, authoritarian governments have largely managed to control the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Girds for a Fight for Internet Freedom | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...There's no way any Western government is going to pay that kind of money, or hand over a detainee of Abu Qatada's importance as a surrender to blackmail - quite clearly non-starters," says the French intelligence official, who requested anonymity while discussing matters related to terrorism. "Their intent was to assassinate Dyer from the start, and the entire bogus demand and deadline process was designed to prolong public anguish over Dyer, and maximize its horror when he was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Threat in N. Africa: Kidnapping Foreigners | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

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