SCIENCE
Top Story: Human Genome Further Unravelled - [BBC] A close-up view of the human genome has revealed its innermost workings to be far more complex than first thought. The study, which was carried out on just 1% of our DNA code, challenges the view that genes are the main players in driving our biochemistry.
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TECHNOLOGY
Top Story: Hitachi: Move the Train With Your Brain - [ABC News] Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity. The "brain-machine interface" developed by Hitachi Inc. analyzes slight changes in the brain's blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals.
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BUSINESS Top Story: Carbon Trading: Where Greed is Green - [International
Herald Tribune] Managing emissions is one of the fastest-growing segments in financial services, and companies are scrambling for talent. Their goal: a slice of a market now worth about $30 billion, but which could grow to $1 trillion within a decade.
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SOCIETY Top Story: Two Billion Slum Dwellers - [Forbes]
By 2030, an estimated 5 billion of the world's 8.1 billion people will live in cities. About 2 billion of them will live in slums, primarily in Africa and Asia, lacking access to clean drinking water and working toilets, surrounded by desperation and crime.
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GLOBAL POLITICS Top Story: Iran Discusses Storing Oil Reserves in China - [International Herald Tribune] Iran is in discussions to store strategic oil reserves in China and to build refineries around Asia, Iran's oil minister, Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh, said, as the country seeks secure outlets for its crude in the face of Western economic sanctions.
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ENVIRONMENT Top Story: Banking on the Future: The Two Biggest US Banks to Dedicate Billions to Halting Climate Change - [Social Funds] Citigroup announced an allocation of $50 billion in investments and financing to mitigate climate change over the next decade. This follows Bank of America’s announcement in March that they are pledging $20 billion to support environmentally sustainable businesses and combat climate change.
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THE FUTURE Top Story: Second Earth: Print Edition - [Technology Review] The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an immersive, 3-D visual environment that combines elements of social virtual worlds such as Second Life and mapping applications such as Google Earth. What happens when the virtual and real worlds collide?
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