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Chemists have long hoped to find a method of bringing the combustion of fuel full circle by turning CO2 back into useful hydrocarbons. Now researchers at the University of Messina in Italy have developed an electrocatalytic technique they say could do the job, reports New Scientist (16 September 2006, p.30). "Not a dream": "The conversion Continue Reading →
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· World Health Organisation urges DDT’s reintroduction
· Environmentalists warn of long-term cancer concerns
Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian
DDT, a pesticide banned in the developed world, should be used to spray houses in all countries where people suffer from malaria, the World Health Organisation said yesterday, 30 years after it phased the practice out.
The new push to use DDT to kill the malaria-transmitting mosquito in Africa and other parts of the world with severe death tolls from the disease will dismay many environmentalists. They fear the polluting effects of the chemical will spread, although the WHO says spraying should be limited to the insides of houses and their roofs. Arata Kochi, the new head of the WHO’s malaria programme, has made no secret of his determination to bring back the chemical weapon that helped rid Europe and the former USSR of malaria decades ago. "We must take a position based on the science and the data," he said in Washington.
Dear Umbra, Still in the dark,
Tim
Eureka, Calif.
By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/in_american_hands
In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
Disclosures of torture and long-term arbitrary detentions have won rebuke from leading voices including the U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. Supreme Court. But the bitterest words come from inside the system, the size of several major U.S. penitentiaries.
"It was hard to believe I’d get out," Baghdad shopkeeper Amjad Qassim al-Aliyawi told The Associated Press after his release without charge last month. "I lived with the Americans for one year and eight months as if I was living in hell."
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By ChristopherBollyn
Like a modern-day Galileo or Socrates, the highly respected physicist, who has challenged with logic and scientific evidence the official explanation for the "collapse" of the World Trade Center, has been banned from teaching classes at his university.
On September 7, the third day of the new fall semester at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, Steven E. Jones, professor of physics and 9/11 researcher, was suddenly banned by university authorities from teaching the physics classes he has taught for the past 21 years. Jones was unexpectedly suspended with pay after participating in a radio show in which he had been cunningly lured to comment on a subject outside of his field the "motivation" of "the Neo-Conservatives" blamed for the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.