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May 16, Suzanne aux bains Nourishing Body Milk -- <i>tres bon!</i>
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 18:26My latest favorite new product is Suzanne aux bains Nourishing Body Milk. I tried a sample of this light-weight (perfect for summer) body lotion while on my way out and noticed the very soft (also, perfect for summer) scent and then honestly proceeded to forget I had even put it on.
Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 07:21Some day, fuel cells may power your car and exhaust only water and perhaps carbon dioxide. More efficient and cleaner than an internal combustion engine, their emissions will be much lower. They may also run your home without the energy loss of power lines, or even power your laptop or cell phone.
But not today or even tomorrow.
U.S. Using Food Crisis to Boost Bio-Engineered Crops
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 07:21The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries.
The value of genetically modified, or bio-engineered, food is an intensely disputed issue in the U.S. and in Europe, where many countries have banned foods made from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
NASA study links Earth impacts to human-caused climate change
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 07:21A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa.
Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York and scientists at 10 other institutions have linked physical and biological impacts since 1970 with rises in temperatures during that period.