Metro eyes sky-rise farming

"Metro eyes sky-rise farmingSurrey may be home to region's first vertical greenhouseKelly Sinoski, Vancouver SunPublished: Tuesday, October 21, 2008Rooftop gardens and vertical greenhouses could be a sign of the times in Metro Vancouver as the region wrestles with...

Lakes across Canada to be used as toxic dump sites

Mining companies may soon have 16 Canadian lakes at their disposal, despite a Fisheries Act that makes it illegal to pollute fish-bearing waters. A very disturbing trend."CBC News has learned that 16 Canadian...

Indie Rock the Vote: Arcade Fire and Superchunk Team for Obama Campaign Shows

"Arcade Fire and Superchunk Team for Obama Campaign ShowsBy Eliot Van Buskirk EmailApril 22, 2008 | 5:57:33 PMCategories: Shows Barack Obama's iPod contains some Jay-Z songs, but his campaign will receive a boost...

Trasylol Side Effects - 22,000 died amid delayed Bayer drug recall Researcher...

"The lives of 22,000 patients could have been saved if U.S. regulators had been quicker to remove a Bayer AG drug used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery, according to a medical researcher interviewed by CBS Television's 60 Minutesprogram. The drug...

Teams separated by only one game in Big Ten standings

"THE SETTING The Iowa Hawkeyes (17-7, 10-3) will gun for their ninth-consecutive victory Thursday night when they travel to West Lafayette, IN, to face the Purdue Boilermakers (13-11, 9-4) for a pivotal showdown. Tip-off is slated for 6:05 p.m. (CST) at Mackey Arena. Iowa...

Nouvel's 53rd St. tower design unveiled

Dezeen has several renderings of this very tall and spiky tower designed by the french architect for midtown manhattan.  "Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the formal selection of Paris-based architect Jean Nouvel as the designer of a new...

Canada: Let killer face music in U.S.

One Canadian sitting in a Montana jail shocked by Canada's decision not to interfere with Montana's desire to put out his lights.  "Permanently"!  "What on Earth is all the fuss about? Here we have one...

Chinese Good Will Ambassador Jiang Wenli, Combats HIV/AIDS

"On the screen, she is a brave policewoman or a miserable widow, while in reality, she has other identities: Good Will Ambassador of the Ministry of Health on HIV/AIDS and member of the Leadership Council of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA). Jiang Wenli, famous...

Chicago Spire Will Be Nations's Tallest Building (Can You Spare $2.4 Billion?)

Chicago officials have given the green light for the construction of the Chicago Spire, which will be the United States' tallest building. The next step will be funding, as the proposed budget for the project...

In Asia's largest slum, free new digs are scorned

via Flavourpill "Reishma Rathore lives in a dilapidated one-room shanty in Dharavi slum, Mumbai (formerly Bombay), a stinking sea of corrugated iron shanties and rubbish. Last week, she was offered a spanking new...

Innovative Commercial Tower O-14 by RUR Architecture to Break Ground in Dubai

"Innovative Commercial Tower O-14 by RUR Architecture to Break Ground in Dubai DUBAI—O-14, a twenty-two story tall commercial tower perched on a two-storey podium, is slated to break ground during the first...

Patch Tuesday comes for Vista too

"While Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as its most secure client operating system yet, the unfinished product is already getting regular security fixes. Vista, slated to be broadly available in January, is the first major Microsoft product to get security updates while it...

Atlantis shuttle 'ready to go'

"Washington - US space agency Nasa on Wednesday gave the go- ahead for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis after two days of safety inspections. The shuttle is now slated to launch on August 27 at 20:30 GMT from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to the International...

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