SCIENCE
Top Story: Turning Off Gene Makes Mice Smarter - [Reuters] Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers said in a finding that lends new insight on learning and may lead to new drugs for memory problems.
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TECHNOLOGY
Top Story: Dutch Try to Grow Enviro-Friendly Meat in Lab - [Reuters] Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals. Although it is in its early stages, the idea is to replace harvesting meat from livestock with a process that eliminates the need for animal feed, transport, land use and the methane expelled by animals, which all hurt the environment.
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BUSINESS Top Story: Google Strikes at Microsoft - [International
Herald Tribune] Millions of people enjoy free Web-based software programs, but they have a drawback in that they are available to users only when they are online. Now Google is hoping to help make many of those programs available offline as well, among them its own free Web-based applications like Docs and Spreadsheets. In doing so, Google will more openly challenge Microsoft and its office productivity tools, like Excel and Word, which are more advanced programs than Docs and Spreadsheets but cost hundreds of dollars.
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SOCIETY Top Story: New Privacy Issues Raised as Google's Map Service Zooms in Even Closer - [International Herald Tribune]
Kalin-Casey, who manages an apartment building with her husband, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new feature in Google's map service called Street View. She typed in her address and the screen showed a street-level view of her building. As she zoomed in, she could see Monty, her cat, sitting on a perch in the living room window of her second-floor apartment.
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GLOBAL POLITICS Top Story: Russia 'Hired Botnets' for Estonia Cyber-War - [Infomatics] The Russian authorities have been accused of buying time on illegal botnets to launch a denial-of-service attack against Estonia. The Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA), which comprises arms groups and financial services companies, claims to have uncovered evidence of alleged collusion between Russia and the botnet owners.
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ENVIRONMENT Top Story: 'Green Cities' Can Come in Shades, Including Gray - [International Herald Tribune] Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York announced more than 100 environmental proposals intended to make the city "the first environmentally sustainable city of the 21st century." He even proposed to institute a traffic congestion charge like that in London, so that cars would have to pay $8 to enter most of Manhattan in an attempt to cut down on traffic and pollution.
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THE FUTURE Top Story: Ten People Who Could Change the World - [Rediff] Forbes looked far and wide to come up with 10 new revolutionaries. They're young thinkers and scientists whom you've probably never heard of, doing work that is radically new and potentially world-changing. Together, they might transform medicine and computing, pollution and poverty, and our understandings of the brain and the cosmos -- in short, they really could change the world.
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