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New Research To Help Fight Widespread Potato Disease
Scientists have made a key discovery into the genetics of the bacteria that causes blackleg, an economically-damaging disease of potatoes, that could lead to new ways to fight the disease. The researchers at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, found that if a particular gene is inactivated in the bacterium Erwinia carotovora, its ability to damage the plant and cause disease is severely impeded. Here's the Googlephone Apple Wants You to Have
Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC alleging patent infringement, an indirect attack against Google's Android platform. What would a Google phone look like if Apple won a lawsuit? Here's an illustrative example.
 Agatha Christie: The Official Agatha Christie Site
Official website for this British mystery writer. Features background about how Christie wrote and the influence of travel and archeology, descriptions of her famous fictional detectives (such as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot), material about Christie works on stage and screen, and a database where you can find books based on keywords or by location, detective, or means of murder. Includes some commercial content. Bluetongue
Background and news about bluetongue, "a non-contagious, insect-transmitted, viral disease of sheep and wild ruminants. It is not known to affect humans."Provides a Q&A, a video clip, updates on bluetongue outbreaks (including those caused by serotype 8 of the bluetongue virus) in European countries, and information about control measures, monitoring and surveillance, and related material about the disease. From the European Commission Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General. National Retail Federation: Annual Holiday Sales Information
Information about retail shopping activity in the U.S. during the winter holiday season. Information before and after the holidays variously includes spending projections, shopping on the Friday and Monday after Thanksgiving ("Black Friday"and "Cyber Monday"), online shopping, and consumer surveys. Also includes a report with "recent and historical data on holiday trends, including sales data, holiday hiring, and shoplifting."From a trade association whose membership "comprises all retail formats." Pope John Paul II: His Life Remembered
Special report on Catholic leader Pope John Paul II, who died in April 2005. Features a timeline, photos, audio clips of speeches, news stories, and articles about the papal transition and potential successors. From National Public Radio (NPR). Asteroids Caused The Early Inner Solar System Cataclysm
University of Arizona and Japanese scientists are convinced that evidence at last settles decades-long arguments about what objects bombarded the early inner solar system in a cataclysm 3.9 billion years ago. Ancient main belt asteroids identical in size to present-day asteroids in the Mars-Jupiter belt -- not comets -- hammered the inner rocky planets in a unique catastrophe that lasted for a blink of geologic time, anywhere from 20 million to 150 million years, they report in the Sept. 16 issue of Science. Apple Bought iSlate.com — Perhaps for a Tablet?
Clever sleuths wonder if iSlate.com, the domain Apple purchased two years ago, might indicate a name for an Apple tablet.
 Dark Energy May Be Vacuum
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute have brought us one step closer to understanding what the universe is made of. The new data shows that vacuum energy is the most likely cause and the expansion history of the universe can be explained by simply adding this constant background of acceleration into the normal theory of gravity. Workplace Pressures, Hazards Raise Risk Of Job Injuries In Youths
Exposure to work hazards and a frenetic job pace increases the likelihood of injury among adolescent and young adult workers, a new systematic review suggests. Work setting also appears to play a role in predicting the risk of injury, with food service and construction industry jobs topping the list of hazardous employment in this age group. The review appears in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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