Next Up From Auto Industry: Tobacco-Powered Cars

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HEADLINE: Next Up From Auto Industry: Tobacco-Powered Cars
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/04/tobacco-powered-autos/?test=latestnews
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Researchers from the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have identified a way to increase the oil in tobacco plant leaves, which may be the next step in using the plants for biofuel. Their paper was published online in Plant Biotechnology Journal.
According to Vyacheslav Andrianov, assistant professor of Cancer Biology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, tobacco can generate biofuel more efficiently than other agricultural crops. However, most of the oil is typically found in the seeds: Tobacco seeds are composed of about 40 percent oil per dry weight.
Although the seed oil has been tested for use as fuel for diesel engines, tobacco plants yield a modest amount of seeds, at only about 1,325 pounds of seeds per acre. Andrianov and his colleagues sought to find ways to engineer tobacco plants, so that their leaves expressed the oil.

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HEADLINE: New Year's revellers stranded in pub
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/world/new-years-revellers-stranded-in-tan-hill-inn-yorkshire-dales/story-e6frfkz9-1225815950851
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ABOUT 60 revellers were forced to drink beer and play cards for three days after they became stranded in a British pub cut off by snowstorms on New Year's Eve.
The guests had booked in to celebrate the new year at the Tan Hill Inn, England's highest pub, standing 518 metres above sea level, in the northern Yorkshire dales.
But the heavy, relentless snowstorms that have swept through parts of Britain trapped them inside, unable to get to their cars and leaving the roads home impassable.

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HEADLINE: Canada, get ready to Look Good Naked
SOURCE: http://www.canada.com/entertainment/Canada+ready+Look+Good+Naked/2395950/story.html
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Zain Meghji hosts How To Look Good Naked Canada.

Q: Your goal on the show is take women who can't face themselves in the mirror and get them to the point where they're confident enough to walk a runway wearing nothing but lingerie. As a man, how do you tap into their feelings?

A: Growing up, I struggled with body confidence. I was a tall, skinny, gangly character. I used to wear ill-fitting, baggy clothes all the time. But I learned how to dress to suit my build. A friend of mine once challenged me to look in the mirror and say, "I am beautiful," which was difficult, but ultimately liberating. I get these women because I understand what they are going through. Supporting them reminds me to stay a better person. ...

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HEADLINE: Outrage over 'heroin for dummies' fliers
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/world/outrage-over-new-york-city-heroin-for-dummies-fliers/story-e6frfkyi-1225815794813
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HERE'S the latest smack on taxpayers. New York City spent $US32,000 ($35,610) on 70,000 fliers that tell you how to shoot heroin, complete with detailed tips on prepping the dope and injecting it into your arm.
The health department handout has outraged New York's top drug prosecutors and abuse experts.
"It's basically step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison," said John Gilbride, who heads the Drug Enforcement Administration's New York office.

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HEADLINE: Mysterious G-spot just a myth - study
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/mysterious-g-spot-just-a-myth-study/story-e6frflri-1225815737655
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A SEXUAL quest that has for years baffled millions of women, and men, may have been in vain.
A study by British scientists has found that the mysterious G-spot, the sexual pleasure zone said to be possessed by some women but denied to others, may not exist at all.
The scientists at King’s College London who carried out the study claim there is no evidence for the existence of the G-spot, supposedly a cluster of internal nerve endings, outside the imagination of women influenced by magazines and sex therapists. They reached their conclusions after a survey of more than 1800 British women.

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HEADLINE: A smacked child 'is a successful child'
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/a-smacked-child-is-a-successful-child/story-e6frfku0-1225815786134
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YOUNG children smacked by their parents may grow up to be happier and more successful than those who have never been hit, a study has found.
According to the research, children smacked up to the age of six were likely as teenagers to perform better at school and were more likely to carry out volunteer work and to want to go to university than their peers who had never been physically disciplined.
Only those children who continued to be smacked into adolescence showed clear behavioral problems.

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HEADLINE: Love and honour, yes – but fidelity, non
SOURCE: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6974092.ece
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A prominent female psychologist has warmed the hearts of French men by shining an unusually sympathetic spotlight on the national sport in a book about adultery.
The church may not approve but Gallic womanisers will raise a glass to Maryse Vaillant for defending their right to stray now and then from the marital bed. Fidelity, she says, is overrated. The occasional fling could even be good for a marriage, she proclaims.
It will no doubt reinforce France’s reputation as home of the sexual free-for-all.

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