Driving a wedge into the Amazon

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The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia is in the danger of becoming fragmented by colonization, agricultural frontier expands, forest burning, logging and hunting. The BDFFP researchers are hoping that the Brazilian media will take interest in highlighting the strategic importance of this project to the Amazonian conservation corridor and the disappointing response from the federal officials and bureaucrats.

Administration of Conservation Programs, South America, Forest Conservation, Environmental aspects, Amazon River region, Habitat partitioning (Biology), Habitat partitioning (Ecology), Colonization

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A new day dawning? Silicon Valley sunrise

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Nanosolar, a company founded in 2001 by Brian Sager, a biotech veteran with expertise in intellectual property, and Martin Roscheisen an Austrian entrepreneur who mixes grandiloquence, enthusiasm and edginess is the first to produce solar cells. The organic technologies is being scaled up for production at Nanosolar's first factory, which aims to produce more than 200 megawatts of solar cell in the first year and 430 megawatts a year later.

Semiconductors and related devices, Production data, Semiconductor industry, Solar cells, Solar batteries, Nanosolar Inc.

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Professor's little helper

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The concerns about the use of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers for both healthy and diseased, the benefits and the hazards of using the drugs and the set of instructions by the scientists, doctors, and lawmakers for their application are presented for arguments and opinions of the readers in an online forum.

United States, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Memory Enhancers, Usage, Complications and side effects, Practice, Drug therapy, Mental illness, Mental disorders, Psychiatrists, Smart drugs and nutrients, Nootropic agents

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