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"All the fretting about the National Security Agency's domestic spying program is understandable, but it misses one spectacularly big point: domestic privacy in America simply does not exist anymore."
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A "non-profit group dedicated to the development of Buddhist sites and content across Second Life... to engage Second Lifers with an expansive virtual experience, based on real-life sites and teachings."
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The title pretty much says it all: hackers have demonstrated that they can clone the information on RFID tags used in passports. This challenges the security of International Civil Aviation Organization-mandated tags.
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Argues that "the real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want."
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"The transformation of the factory from a vast machine into a creative, knowledge-intensive space is a development few could have seen."
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"Traditional incubators and economic grants can do more harm than good to a startup culture when there is not already a well-engrained and robust entrepreneurial ecosystem upon which these startups may grow and thrive."
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"[N]ew companies are rethinking major infrastructure projects using natural objects as their basis."
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2005 IPCC report.
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"Mountain glaciers around the world are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5000 years because of an unprecedented period of global warming, a study has found."
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Examinations of tropical glacier ice cores show "a massive climate shift to a cooler regime that occurred just over 5,000 years ago, and a more recent reversal to a much warmer world within the last 50 years."
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"Glaciers store an estimated 70 percent of the world's fresh water.... [S]now moves through the slowly churning ice and may emerge from the glacier's edge thousands of years later as meltwater. Humans have long depended on the... runoff."
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"World electricity consumption doubles in the IEO2006 projections from 2003 to 2030. Non-OECD countries account for 71 percent of the projected growth, and OECD countries account for 29 percent. "
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