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...they are trying to ease the environmental impact of coal power by using clean-burning technology and by encouraging energy conservation. EVN has launched a rebate campaign promoting power-saving fluorescent lightbulbs; Vietnam recently passed a clean-air law that requires new coal plants to install filters for toxic sulfur dioxide and nitrogen. In Uong Bi, EVN installed filters on the new generator's smokestack - a measure that tea-shop owner Dang says has reduced the black smoke. But even the most advanced technologies can't cut CO2 emissions by much. Carbon sequestration - a proposed method of fighting global warming...
...treat mice afflicted with ALS before altering it slightly for human treatment. According to Julien, the cross-border collaboration is the fastest way to bring the vaccine into the clinical trial stage. So far, the duo’s research has yielded that ridding the body of the toxic SOD1 protein present will significantly help those suffering from the inherited form of the illness. “If one diminishes the burden of this sick protein, one can both delay the disease and reduce its severity,” Brown explained. Although the inherited form of Lou Gerhig?...
...Sept. 27, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Texas execution two days after agreeing to hear arguments about whether lethal injection falls under the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The toxic serum is meant to be pain-free, but there is some doubt about the drug's numbing anesthetic. While the court hears the case, 12 of the 37 states that use lethal injection have halted executions so far. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
People throughout the nation are going ga-ga for Barack Obama. Many see his novel politics of hope as the cure for a toxic Washington culture of partisanship and corruption. What many fail to realize is that a number of politicians just like Obama have recently sprung up throughout the country...
...year ago, at the party's 2006 convention, many delegates sounded battle-ready: they were squaring up to their own colleagues. Supporters of Tony Blair, then still Premier but openly planning his departure, were at loggerheads with the adherents of his rival, Brown. "It was a pretty toxic event," Jon Cruddas, an MP on the left of the party, told a meeting in Bournemouth. He said he feared that Labour "was approaching free fall...