| August 1 |
- Carnage at General Motors
- If what's good for GM is good for the U.S., what does it mean when the company loses $15.5 billion?
- Pachelbel's Canon -- sixth century Korean style
- Dead for 300 years, the German composer continues to conquer new musical frontiers.
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| August 4 |
- Decline and fall of the economic stimulus boost
- Juiced by tax rebates, Americans upped their consumption in June. Unless you count inflation, in which case they actually spent less
- Why is Obama supporting "limited" offshore drilling?
- Maybe it's because he understands the big picture -- compromises may be necessary along the way to a sustainable energy future.
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| August 5 |
- Empires on the rise
- China and India battle for a London-based energy company pumping oil in Siberia and Kazakhstan. That's globalization, folks.
- The subcontinental salsa king
- Hindi pop songs plus South American rhythm plus an Intel electrical engineer equals magic
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| August 6 |
- Jimmy Carter -- the peak oil president
- His 1977 speech on the energy crisis is all too timely during a week of campaign obsession over tire gauges and offshore drilling.
- Ethanol might make your kids stupid
- A science journal details an indirect connection between phosphate-based fertilizers and lead poisoning
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| August 7 |
- The spending spree that never happened
- Salon's readers promised to save their stimulus checks or use them to pay down debt. Guess what? That's what the entire nation ended up doing
- World of development economics Warcraft
- Everything you ever wanted to know about gold farming and the global economy
- This is your public service drought allocation notice
- Water rationing arrives in Berkeley, Calif. Ho hum. Tell it to the Ethiopians
- Vacation notice
- How the World Works must rest up before the fall stretch run begins
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| August 19 |
- Inflation throws a sucker punch
- Wall Street shudders as new figures show prices rising at the fastest rate in 27 years
- High School Bollywood Musical
- After marketing the gold-minting franchise in India, Disney brings it all back home.
- The oil price puzzle
- With crude oil prices $30 below their peak, analysts are suffering whiplash. But no matter how low they go, it won't be for long.
- Beer, happiness, and academic productivity
- Are scientists who quaff ale less productive? Or are they just a lot more fun?
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| August 20 |
- China, Tibet and iTunes
- The iTunes Music Store suddenly doesn't work in China. Angry downloaders say the Olympic popularity of "Songs for Tibet" is to blame
- Empowerment, not emasculation
- If India could survive Alexander, it can survive Disney. The foreign adventures of "High School Musical," continued
- The bane of San Francisco cycling
- Two years ago, high oil prices made Rob Anderson's crusade against bike lanes look dumb. Today, words fail.
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| August 21 |
- Speculation nation
- "Irrational Exuberance" author Robert Shiller predicted both the dot-com bust and the housing
market collapse -- and now his new book offers fixes for America's bubble mentality.
- Obama: The big-spending fiscal conservative
- The New York Times tackles Obamanomics -- and does a darn good job.
- Biopiracy and bird flu
- A U.S. government patent application raises a knotty question: Should a country own property rights to the diseases that afflict its citizens?
- The new Cold War: Bad for a hot planet
- When Russia and Georgia rolled out the tanks, Europe's effort to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions may have gotten blitzed
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| August 22 |
- Don't worry, be happy, buy a flat-screen TV
- Gas prices got you down? House in foreclosure? Who cares? Your new television is awesome!
- Peak dirt
- Soil science isn't a glamour sport, but from Burkina Faso to Wisconsin, human survival depends on getting it right.
- The case for oil price speculation improves
- Most economists are still resisting the theory that oil markets were manipulated earlier this year, but some new evidence is testing their resolve
- Sold! -- to the man in Lycra
- Beleaguered real estate agents have found a new selling tool -- the trusty bike
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| August 25 |
- The subprime price tag
- Half a trillion here, half a trillion there -- pretty soon ...
- Bankrupt in Sacramento
- C. C. Myers became a hero for rebuilding collapsed freeways in record time. He's having a harder time dealing with the collapsed housing market
- When hippies ruled the Tennessee Valley
- How a U.S. government agency in the Deep South made fertilizer more productive than ever before.
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| August 26 |
- The new sun worshipers
- The semiconductor chip industry has solar power on the brain.
- Will Hurricane Gustav crash the Republican convention?
- Drill here, drill now -- whoops, batten down the hatches, a storm is coming!
- Oil, Islam, and women
- For Muslim women yearning for political power, Allah is not the problem.
- English-only golf
- The LPGA says its new rules requiring English-fluency are for the good of the golfers. But what about the TV ratings?
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| August 27 |
- A Brazilian Linux let-down
- The government subsidizes free software. But does anyone use it?
- Indian superheroes take a fall
- The latest victim of the global economic slump: "Devi/Witchblade" and "Ramayan 3392 Reloaded"
- A clean energy investment slump?
- High energy prices are supposed to make solar and wind power all the more attractive. But new figures suggest that sustainability is losing some steam
- Monsanto's bane: The evil pigweed
- Remember the boll weevil? A new terror is stalking the cotton fields of the American South.
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| August 28 |
- A booming economy?
- "Incomprehensible" GDP growth numbers make "recession" a hard word to say. But we'll say it anyway.
- Christianists gone wild
- Is the GOP trying to ban private funding of embryonic stem cell research? Some Republicans certainly seem to think so.
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| August 29 |
- Hurricane subprime
- Insurance companies, already hammered by the credit crunch, wince as Gustav approaches the Gulf
- Sarah Palin: Drill, drill, drill -- all the way
- Offshore, onshore, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- the Republican vice-presidential nominee makes no bones about it: Drill!
- Sarah Palin and a melting Alaska
- Global warming is nothing to joke about in the not-so-frozen North. Palin might be pro-drilling, but she can't ignore climate change
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