The global conflict over high-yield farming became even uglier last week when armed activists &#8220for the landless invaded a Brazilian biotech research farm. New technologies that would save millions of lives every year are being held back by activist-scared regulators, using the excuse of &#8220more testing. During the severe southern African drought of 2002, eco-activists told local governments that American food aid was &#8220poison because it contained genetically modified seeds....

published in issue 4050 page 11 at 2007-10-29 Oil, dollar and gold prices hits new records high on Friday on Iran tensions and tight US energy supplies Crude oil prices rocketed towards USD 100 a barrel this week on supply worries linked to fraught tensions in key crude producers and falling energy stockpiles in the United States. Those historic highs breaching on rising tension in Iran and tight US energy supplies, only oil price smashing through USD 92. published in issue 4050 page 11 at...

Putin bluntly spelled out his disagreements with Washington on Wednesday, saying he saw no "objective data" to prove Western claims that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. Putin's trip is important for Iran even if it yields no agreements. push for stronger sanctions against Tehran and strongly warned Washington against using force in its standoff with Iran over its nuclear program. Russia warned earlier this year that the plant in the port of Bushehr wouldn't be launched this fall as...

An electron microscope video and computer simulations show that "shrink-wrapping" is the key; buckyballs start life as distorted, unstable sheets of graphite, shedding loosely connected threads and chains until only the perfectly spherical buckyballs remain. Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping' . Huliq Huliq. An electron microscope video and computer simulations show that "shrink-wrapping" is the key; buckyballs start life as distorted, unstable sheets of graphite, shedding...

Cisco's NAC emphasizes that company's strength as a provider of network gear, and uses Cisco routers and switches, coupled with a software client called the Cisco Trust Agent, to check and enforce security policy. The Trusted Computing Group's TNC architecture is similar to NAC but is based on open standards, and it doesn't rely on a single vendor to provide the policy decision-making or enforcement points. ADVERTISEMENT Microsoft's NAP, on the other hand, will use that company's strength...