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Posts Tagged ‘Tesla’

Weekly News Roundup: The Ethics of Eight Babies

• Do humans have reproductive limits? And if not physical, how about ethical?

• Scientists give a big thumbs up to Obama’s environmental plan.

• A handy list of all the biggest “global cooling” hacks, now in bar graph form.

• Poor Tesla. The bad news just keeps on comin’.

• A universal flu vaccine nears completion—but will we have the cash to distribute it?

• Finally, some sliding profits news to be happy about. Oh no wait, never mind.

• Senate decides (thank goodness) that children and health insurance are two things that should really continue to go together.

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January 30th, 2009 Tags: cars, children, global warming, Tesla
by Melissa Lafsky in Climate Change, Energy, Health Care | 211 Comments » | RSS feed | Trackback >





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