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Vitamin C secret unlocked.

Health & Fitness – The race to breed the "super fruit" of the future could be won by Kiwi scientists who have unlocked the secret to vitamin C.

View Story Discuss (0) (tvnz.co.nz) 2 hours ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on August 26, 2007 08:55am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

Quarter-Degree Fix Fuels Climate Fight.

Science – Never underestimate the power of the blogosphere and a quarter of a degree to inflame the fight over global warming.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 25, 2007 11:02pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Stem cell agency's science boss quits.

Science – The top scientific officer at California's stem cell agency has resigned, effective Oct. 31.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 25, 2007 01:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

Over 40 Fashion Tips

Men – Unlike other aspects of life, the style strategies we acquire over time end up working against us, especially after watching a few decades of ever-changing fashions fly by. At some point we must reevaluate, and the fifth decade of living is the perfect time to do just that.

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Voted for on August 25, 2007 01:02pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

The power of produce.

Food – Fruits and vegetables are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber and scores of phytochemicals that scientists are just beginning to understand, and studies have shown that people who eat more fruits and vegetables have a lower risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes -- and some kinds of cancer.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 25, 2007 12:26pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

NY Baby Undergoes 5-Organ Transplant.

Health & Fitness – An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step , learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 25, 2007 12:23pm

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Man Resorts to Surgery to Adopt Child.

Family – A man who weighed 558 pounds when a Missouri judge prevented him from adopting a child he and his wife had taken into their home underwent gastric bypass surgery Friday in a bid to win the child back.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 25, 2007 09:49am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / 2 sinks

Getting the kids to exercise more.

Health & Fitness – Parents have tremendous influence on their kids and with planning and encouragement can get them moving more and help them make it a lifelong habit. Consider these practical tips:

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Submitted and Voted for on August 25, 2007 09:44am

Netscape Bias?
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Netscape Bias?

Politics – After carefully watching the voting/sinking habits of the Scouts it's safe to conclude that most of them are also extremely liberal, thus I'm sure this must have come into play when they were hired. Whatever the case may be, Netscape is owned by liberals in every way. It's their outlet and they're not about to let differing viewpoints change it.

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America's Hackable Backbone

Gadgets & Tech – The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant's owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet. Lunsford, a researcher for IBM's Internet Security Systems, found otherwise.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 24, 2007 12:23pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

Top 10 Video Search Engines

Gadgets & Tech – This week is Online Video Week at R/WW, so our network blog AltSearchEngines went out and found the leading video search engines on the Web. Following is the list that ASE editor Charles Knight came up with - he used Google Video as the benchmark.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 24, 2007 12:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / 1 sink

First look at Microsoft's Tafiti: sexy Silverlight searching

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft has released a new showcase of its Silverlight web development frameworks, a graphical search engine called Tafiti. Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental frontend to Microsoft's Live Search engine.

View Story Discuss (0) (arstechnica.com) 1 day ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on August 24, 2007 12:00pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 3 votes / No sinks

Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference?

Gadgets & Tech – In this article, I'll compare Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty Fawn) with the (as of this writing) upcoming release of PC-BSD 1.4.

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Voted for on August 24, 2007 11:48am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 3 votes / No sinks

Claim of Martian Life Called 'Bogus'.

Science – Martian soil analyzed 30 years ago by NASA's Viking landers might contain life, according to a controversial new study that one scientist called "bogus."

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Submitted and Voted for on August 24, 2007 10:44am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

White Cliffs solar energy glory recognised

Science – The tiny outback town of White Cliffs in far north-west New South Wales can now claim a place in Australia's engineering history, alongside the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Snowy Hydro scheme.

View Story Discuss (0) (abc.net.au) 2 days ago by GregD

Submitted and Voted for on August 24, 2007 10:27am

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