Weekly News Roundup

• In the wake of its banking decombustion, Iceland heads back to an economy based on fishing—at least, for another 50 years or so.

• Should water be priced according to its market value? Vote today in The Economist’s water poll.

Morality police or no, 25 percent of teenage girls have received the HPV vaccine.

• Nuclear energy gets a PR boost.

• Some how, pork seems a little less porky when it’s going to green energy.

• The Top Ten Biggest Nobel Prize shafts.

• Doctors and drug companies: How deep does the rabbit hole go?

• And finally, perhaps the best graphic representation so far of this week’s financial wreckage.

October 10th, 2008 Tags: ,
by Melissa Lafsky in Climate Change, Science Goes to Washington | 0 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

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