Expert warns wheat residue too valuable to lose July 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Times are good for wheat farmers, but they should resist the urge to harvest their crop residue and sell it for ethanol production, a federal researcher says. | |
Training reassessed after plutonium spill July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Use of radioactive materials has been suspended and worker training is being reassessed following a plutonium spill at the Boulder, Colo., laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency's ... | |
 Report: US behind in doubling science grads July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor's degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target, a new report says. | |
An American life worth less today July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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(AP) -- It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be. The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the ... | |
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