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Story: Journal Science Selects Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2006 - [People's Daily] The Poincare Conjecture, a famous mathematics problem which has been finally solved, was honored as the Breakthrough of the Year, according to a statement released by the U.S. journal Science and its publisher AAAS, the nonprofit society. The journal has chosen top 10 breakthroughs from the numerous research advances of 2006.
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TECHNOLOGY
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Story: Explosive Growth Predicted for Mobile Social Networks - [ECommerce Times] Social networking is going mobile and is poised for spectacular growth over the next five years, according to a research report. The report predicts that mobile social communities will be attracting members in swarms, more than tripling in size worldwide from some 50 million this year to 174 million by 2011.
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BUSINESS
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Story: Richard Branson Explains His Bet on Biofuels - [MSNBC] Does a music mogul who signed the Rolling Stones and Janet Jackson have what it takes to make a pop star out of biofuels? Earlier this fall, publicity-chasing British entrepreneur Richard Branson made a $3 billion bet that he could do just that -- via Virgin Fuels, a new company in his wide-ranging Virgin Group.
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SOCIETY
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Story: Robots May One Day Have Rights - [UPI] A paper commissioned by the British government's chief scientist predicts that sentient robots will have rights in the country within 50 years.
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GLOBAL POLITICS
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Story: China to Nurture Companies for Global Competition - [International Herald Tribune] The government said that it planned to nurture as many as 50 state-owned enterprises to become globally competitive companies while maintaining control of companies engaged in key industries.
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ENVIRONMENT
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Story: Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists Reveal that Bears Have Stopped Hibernating - [Independent] Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world. In a December in which bumblebees, butterflies and even swallows have been on the wing in Britain, European brown bears have been lumbering through the forests of Spain's Cantabrian mountains, when normally they would already be in their long, annual sleep.
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THE FUTURE
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Story: Futuristic Scans Show Life’s Possibilities - [The Herald] If you're 50 or less, you might just live to see it: a world in which you can argue with the dog and send a robot to do the shopping. Energy will beamed from the moon, an international army will keep the peace, science will extend your existence, and product design will make life easier for the old.
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