Archive for May, 2009

Scientists Engineer Cellular Circuits That Count Events (Science Daily)

Engineers have designed cells that can count and “remember” cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order.

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Slowdown, shortages in key components in focus at Computex (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)

TAIPEI (Reuters) - A shortage of electronic components such as chips and displays threatens to derail a nascent recovery in Asia's technology sector spurred by China's stimulus plan.

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Got green friends? (Concord Monitor)

Do you know someone who’s so green it’s difficult to look at him or her? Someone who, if he or she weren’t so darn great, would be positively annoying because of all the do-gooding? Well, we want you to turn them in to the proper authorities.

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Slowdown, shortages in focus at Computex (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

A shortage of electronic components such as chips and displays threatens to derail a nascent recovery in Asia’s technology sector spurred by China’s stimulus plan.

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Lawn bowlers compete in annual tournament (Daily Press)

WILLIAMSBURG — The player kneels down and carefully rolls the black bowl across the green. It glides swiftly across the finely cut grass, barely missing the white jack.

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