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Smoking May Boost `Fat-Depleting` Gene Offering clues to why smokers often gain weight after quitting, a new study suggests that smoking enhances the activity of a gene that helps break down body fat. Topix.netObama`s key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign America's oil, gas and coal industry has increased its lobbying budget by 50%, with key players spending $44.5m in the first three months of this year in an intense effort to cut off support for Barack Obama's plan to build a clean energy economy.The spoiler campaign runs to hundreds of millions of dollars and involves industry front groups, lobbying firms, television, print and radio advertising, and donations to pivotal members of Congress. Its intention is to water down or kill off plans by the Democratic leadership to pass 'cap and trade' legislation this year, which would place limits on greenhouse gas emissions.A defeat for the bill would have global consequences. The international community is depending on America, as the world's biggest per capita polluter, to set out a firm plan for getting off dirty fuels in the months before crucial UN negotiations in Copenhagen in December.Without such action, the chances of getting a deal that scientists say is vital to limiting dange GuardianCost of solar energy will match fossil fuels by 2013, claims Solarcentury Falling production costs for solar panels and increasing nonrenewables electricity costs have brought parity closerSolar energy will fall in price to match the cost of conventional fossil fuel electricity far sooner than previously expected, the UK's largest solar company has claimed in a new report. Solarcentury said British homeowners will see solar achieve 'grid parity' - the point where solar electricity rivals or becomes cheaper than conventional nonrenewable electricity - by 2013. Most predictions suggest that technological innovation will not bring the price down far enough until 2020 or later.The company suggested falling production costs for solar panels and increasing conventional electricity costs have brought parity closer. Prices for solar and grid electricity in residential homes are expected to crossover at around 17p to 18p per unit of electricity (kWh) in 2013, followed by parity for commercial solar electricity in 2018.Last December, the renewable energy analysts New GuardianNASA Aims for Future Fuel from Algae-Filled Bags of Sewage NASA is applying space technology to a decidedly down-to-earth effort that links the production of algae-based fuel with an inexpensive method of sewage treatment. [More] Scientific AmericanUK house price decline slows down UK house prices continued their descent in March, although they fell more slowly in the first three months of this year than they did in the last quarter of 2008, the latest official data show FTCahill yielded on pension issue in State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill backed down in 2004 from a push to curb retirement abuses by lawmakers, after top legislative leaders on Beacon Hill privately objected to the changes, Cahill said. Chicago ChronicleFormer Catholic head of Milwaukee admits he`s gay Archbishop Rembert Weakland, former head of the Milwaukee archdiocese, said in an interview Monday that he wrote about his sexual orientation because he wanted to be candid about 'how this came to life in my own self, how I suppressed it, how it resurrected again.' Called 'A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop,' the book is set to be released in June. 'I was very careful and concerned that the book not become a Jerry Springer, to satisfy people's prurient curiosity or anything of this sort,' Weakland told The Associated Press. 'At the same time, I tried to be as honest as I can.' Weakland stepped down soon after Paul Marcoux, a former Marquette University theology student, revealed in May 2002 that he was paid $450,000 to settle a sexual assault claim he made against the archbishop more than two decades earlier. The money came from the archdiocese. Topix.netElderly need more sun to reduce risk of heart disease, diabetes More time in the sunshine could help older people cut down the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes. Chicago ChronicleAUSTRALIA: Plan to Tackle Domestic Violence Wins Support MELBOURNE, May 13 (IPS) - Kelly Johnson was just 28 when she was murdered by a former boyfriend at her Adelaide home last year. The mother of one was hit on the head with a frying pan and stabbed repeatedly with 'startling ferocity', according to Justice Trish Kelly, who handed down a mandatory life sentence to Johnson's killer, Daniel Hall, in February. IPS |
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Feedzilla is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic. It is a platform where webmasters and bloggers can find an unmatched selection of easy to use, automatically updating and professional news widgets for their sites. Feedzilla supports the building of widgets in various formats, as well as allowing the addition of news widgets to different blogging platforms and social networks.
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