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Whereas the tobacco companies have lost several huge lawsuits, I don’t recall any magazines getting sued for running ads for cancer-causing products.
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Новости от 2009/07/04

  • US Military blocks data on incoming meteors. Although the reason for ending the arrangement remains unclear, Weeden notes that it coincides with the launch of a new generation of surveillance satellites and speculates that the Pentagon may not want details of the new satellites’ capabilities to be made public, or it may simply lack the expensive software needed to handle classified and declassified data simultaneously.
  • US Open Government Initiative Enters Phase Three. The Obama administration opened a discussion forum in January of this year which has become an electronic suggestion box. Three of the top 10 most popular ideas called for legalizing marijuana, and two featured conspiracy theories about Mr. Obama’s true place of birth.
  • Switching To Solar Power, One Year Later. Loyd Case (published) series of articles illustrating his experiences after switching to solar power for his family home. Despite the $38,000 initial cost for the setup, Loyd is very optimistic after a $3,000 savings in one year, meaning that in about 12 years he will break even.
  • Three-quarters of Americans Support Regulation of CO2, Poll Shows
  • Study deconstructs Canadian copyright lobby deception. «It is not just that these reports all receive financial support from the same organizations and say largely the same thing. It is also that the reports each build on one another, creating the false impression of growing momentum and consensus on the state of Canadian law and the need for specific reforms.»
  • Информация о сиквеле к Хищнику, «Хищники». Режиссёр Nimrod Antal. «Aliens made the original movie’s title plural and upped the ante by taking characters to (potentially) the home planet of the first movie’s monster, whereas Predators will make the original movie’s title plural and up the ante by taking characters to (potentially) the home planet of the first movie’s monsters.»
  • Russia’s Flying Car program. «It was called the “super string transportation system” and was claimed to come to replace the existing rail road technologies. The steel cords under great tension had to be stretched on the polls across all the country to support the high speed (up to 500 km/h - 300 mph) trains movement.»
  • A drug that could give you a perfect visual memory. Mice with the RGS-14 boost could remember objects they had seen for up to two months. Ordinarily the same mice would only be able to remember these objects for about an hour… If this protein boosts visual memory in humans, the implications are staggering. And it would also be a great drug for detectives and spies.
  • Pot does not make you crazy. A new study from the journal Schizophrenia Research that proves marijuana does not induce insanity.
  • Банкир уволен за прогноз. Сбербанк уволил специалиста, спрогнозировавшего резкое падение рынка недвижимости грядущей осенью. За «личное мнение». Директор управления финансирования строительных объектов Сбера прав, считают эксперты, но главный банк страны не может позволить себе такие высказывания.
  • На подходе технология LTE, дешевле и быстрее WiMAX. Развёртывание начнётся со следующего года в нескольких странах.
  • Как решить транспортную проблему Москвы. «Часкор» публикует комментарии автовладельцев с их предложениями по улучшению ситуации.
  • Регистрация по типу московской есть только в КНДР, интервью с администрацией сайта Нелегал.ру на тему законности прописки.

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