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Farm Wages Trip Beijing's March Against Inflation
Submitted by loner on 27 December, 2010 - 3:34amBEIJING—To combat a surge in food prices that is worrying consumers and economists, China's government is reining in bank lending and selling down reserves of grain. But there is one driver of higher food prices that will be harder to get under control: the steady rise in the wages paid to workers on and off the farm.
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Scientists create a living organism
Submitted by loner on 23 May, 2010 - 3:33amhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/3dbad5ca-6431-11df-8618-00144feab49a.html
Scientists have turned inanimate chemicals into a living organism in an experiment that raises profound questions about the essence of life.
Craig Venter, the US genomics pioneer, announced on Thursday that scientists at his laboratories in Maryland and California had succeeded in their 15-year project to make the world’s first “synthetic cells” – bacteria called Mycoplasma mycoides.
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