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Computer Games Can Save Your Brain

If you're one of the many people who while away hours playing FreeCell, that heinously addictive and complicated version of Solitaire, you may be interested to hear that some researchers think your performance in this computerized card game might reveal early signs of dementia.


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Despite Bush Veto Stem Cell Research Abounds

It seems that people believe that if there is no federal support for research using new embryonic stem lines then all stem cell research in the U.S. is at a standstill. This article shows that this is not the case.

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Food Crop Biofuels Given Thumbs Down By National Academy of Sciences Study

Producing biofuels such as ethanol from food crops isn't worth the effort a new and painstaking study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers should instead concentrate either on producing ethanol from indigestible plant material such as cellulose, or on synthetic hydrocarbon fuels.

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China Ages Causing a Shortage of Cheap Labor

The New York Times describes Shanghai where workers are aging as a result of China's one-child policy in 1976.

"Twenty percent of this city's people are at least 60, the common retirement age for men in China, and retirees are easily the fastest growing segment of the population, with 100,000 new seniors added to the rolls each year."

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