SCIENCE
Top Story: Clues from Animals May Help Regrow Fingers, Limbs - [Houston Chronicle] Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers — and someday, even limbs — with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel. There's the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an extract of pig bladder. And the scientists who grow extra arms on salamanders. And the laboratory mice with the eerie ability to heal themselves.
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TECHNOLOGY
Top Story: Storing Digital Data In Living Organisms - [Science Daily] Data encoded in an organism's DNA, and inherited by each new generation, could be safely archived for hundreds of thousands of years, the researchers state. In contrast, CD-ROMs, flash memory and hard disk drives can easily fall victim to accidents or natural disasters.
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BUSINESS
Top Story: Pepsi's Counterintuitive Branding Strategy - [International
Herald Tribune] Under a new branding strategy, Pepsi is introducing new can and bottle designs every few weeks, planning to sell 20 or more different ones annually in every market. Pepsi has already started selling the new packages in several countries, including China, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and the United States, and they are coming soon to Europe.
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SOCIETY
Top Story: More students Across US Logging On to Online Classrooms - [Boston Globe]
One million kindergarten through high school students are enrolled in virtual schooling across the nation, according to the North American Council for Online Learning, a nonprofit organization for administrators, teachers, and others involved in online schooling.
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GLOBAL POLITICS
Top Story: China Targets More than a Satellite - [Asia Times] China hit more than a weather satellite on January 11 when it launched a medium-range ballistic missile into space; it also hit alarms in Washington and elsewhere. Recent media reports highlighting China's growing influence and successful use of "soft power" failed to anticipate this abrupt assertion of "hard power." The missile launch created the largest space-debris incident in history and gave new meaning to the phrase "peaceful rise."
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ENVIRONMENT
Top Story: Far-Out
Schemes to Stop Climate Change - [New Scientist]
Following the latest report of the United Nations
climate change panel, there has been a flurry of renewed
interest in so-called geo-engineering projects to
counter the warming effects of rising CO2 levels.
Some wild-sounding schemes have been proposed over
the years.
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THE FUTURE
Top Story: Space
Historian Sees Cyborgs in Our Future - [Space.com]Fifty
years after the dawn of the space age, hundreds of
people have flown into space. A dozen of those left
their boot marks on the Moon's surface, and several
nations now are planning to send astronauts back to
the Moon and then beyond. So you would think the expansion
of humanity ever deeper into the Cosmos is a sure
bet.
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