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A urine test can diagnose the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia in men within an hour, enabling quicker treatment.

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

The government is to ban private transplants of organs from dead donors after concerns foreign patients jump the queue.

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

If you want to stay slim, don’t hang out with fat friends as they can make you obese, mounting evidence suggests.

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Rusty Chrysler. Image credit:AllPar
You’ve probably seen the onslaught of car dealership TV commercials promising you endless benefits from the new government Cash for Clunkers program (or Car Allowance Rebate System – CARS). The dealers have set out all their signs and wacky personalities and inflatable monkeys – all to get you to trade in […]

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

photo: FedEx
The rooftop solar array race is heating up: FedEx Ground has just announced that it will be installing what will be, for now, the largest rooftop solar power system in the US at its distribution hub in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Construction on the project is slated to begin in August and be completed […]

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

A woman with multiple sclerosis has won a landmark case to have the law on assisted suicide clarified.

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Photo credit: Pangea Organics
PRINT is hosting a live Webcast on Aug. 4 with Joshua Onysko, founder and CEO of Pangea Organics, as well as Josh Ivy, the skincare company’s lead designer.
The design magazine will be recognizing Pangea in its October issue as an outstanding example of sustainable design—the fi… Read the full story on […]

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

photo: Matthew McDermott
One criticism/fear of instituting a cap and trade program to reduce carbon emissions is that once Wall Street gets its fingers into it the whole thing is just going to run amok with speculation, derivatives and all the same sorts of things that led to the recent banking meltdown. Well, though the Senate’s […]

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Science and Technology. Comments: None

Photo: Toyota
Broken Dreams
Like many of our commenters, I was very excited when Reuters reported that Toyota was readying a Yaris-based low-cost hybrid. Finally a full hybrid that is also small and inexpensive! But UK-based Autocar is reporting that a source at Toyota denies this (more details below… Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted on July 30th, 2009 under Science and Technology. Comments: None