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Oil industry profits from carbon offset
New Scientist
Some firms are making a killing from schemes designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions, while doing little or nothing in return. The market in carbon offsets, which allows companies to invest in renewable energy as a way of mitigating their own greenhouse gas emissions - almost doubled in 2006 to $5 billion, the World Bank said on 2 May.
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Plan for healthy motherhood is offensive
AP
Plans to urge Japanese mothers to breast-feed and sing lullabies to their babies and for families to turn off the TV during meals have been scrapped, Kyodo news agency reported. But the release of the report by an education reform panel was called off at the last minute in an apparent response to criticism that it went too far in meddling with people's private lives, Kyodo reported.
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Bottled Water Has High Environmental Costs
Environmental News Network
Bottled water, the world's fastest growing beverage, carries a heavy environmental cost, adding plastic to landfills and putting pressure on natural springs, the author of a new report said Thursday.
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Iran calls for 'Gulf of Peace'
Aljazeera
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, speaking in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has called for "foreign troops" to leave the Gulf. "We all wish that foreign troops would leave the region and give a chance to countries in the region to establish security in the region themselves," Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, the UAE president.
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Insincerity is the route to success
Noted business expert Ben Stein explores how successful people communicate. His basic thesis: be insincere, and by recognizing the psychology of the person you are talking to, manipulate them.
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Climate change will devastate agriculture
Environmental News Network
Global climate change will drastically reshape grain, oilseed and other crop production, but exactly how that will happen remains unclear. "Climate change has forced us to rethink so much of what we do on so many fronts, just as the Internet has done in terms of our daily lives," James Spellman, consultant with the United Nations Foundation, told on the sidelines of the annual World Agricultural Forum that wraps up Thursday.
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The face, not the body, attracts a mate
NewScientist
Body builders and gym buffs, look away now. It appears that the opposite sex is much more interested in your face than your bulging biceps or elegant figure, especially if you're a man.
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