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  NoiseTube Phone Application Maps Noise Pollution

  By David Bois | Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:24 PM ET

  data to NoiseTube servers. The summary resulting data are compiled into maps readable through Google Earth depicting noise level conditions.European Union (EU) regulatory framework is described as providing some of the motivating force behind NoiseTube's development. NewScientis Read More

  More like this in: Google, New York, Boston, Pollution, Paris, European Union, Mental Health, Maps, Noise Pollution, Noise
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  Leo Releases a Meteor Shower

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:28 PM ET

  shower and sometimes a spectacular display.Which will it be this afternoon? Too bad I won't be able to tell. Photo courtesy of jaredten, vi Read More

  More like this in: Asia, National Geographic, Meteor Showers, World, Science, Asia, Americas, Space, Physical Sciences
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  Cannabis Cafe ... and Then Some

  By Jac Chebatoris | Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:02 AM ET

  of way.The first of its kind, The Cannabis Cafe, opened Friday afternoon in Portland, Oregon making it America's first legal coffeehouse in the "European tradition," let's say.But pay attention: there is a catch, and that catch would be that only those who need the marijuana for medica Read More

  More like this in: Cancer, Portland, Portland, OR, Marijuana, Cannabis, Medical Marijuana, US, Life & Style, Regional/Local, Culture, Health & Fitness
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  Northern Forests Pack More Cooling Punch

  By David Bois | Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  in their study, recently published in the journal Global and Planetary Change, that additional forest planting in places such as Russia, Canada and Europe would achieve a greater net temperature reduction compared to new forest plantings in India, Brazil and China.Their number crunchin Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, India, Water, China, Planet, Canada, Amazon, Brazil, Russia, Trees, New Scientist
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  Kookiness Abounds on Guinness World Records Day

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:35 PM ET

  hugging for one minute. Meanwhile, Londoner Shaun Jones gained fame for the fastest hot water bottle burst at 18.81 seconds. Countries throughout Europe clearly got in the record-breaking mood. In Italy, one resident set a new fastest time for eating a bowl of pasta: one minute, 30 seconds Read More

  More like this in: London, England, Reuters, Australia, Hair, Italy, Norway, Guinness World Records, Finland, Commuters
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  Berlin Wall: Domino Effect

  By Darragh Worland | Mon Nov 9, 2009 12:18 PM ET

  students, artists and intellectuals in advance of the commemorative "Festival of Freedom." Several public figures also decorated dominoes, including European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek who contributed to the toppling of the dominoes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel greeted world leaders Read More

  More like this in: The New York Times, Germany, Russia, Poland, Peace, Berlin, European Union, Eastern Europe, Communism , The Berlin Wall, Cold War
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  Celebrating Again: 20 Years Since Berlin Wall's Great Fall

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Mon Nov 9, 2009 9:59 AM ET

  coming down: my sixth grade classroom. It was presented to us as an earth-shattering moment in history, the symbolic end of the Cold War in western Europe. Twenty years later, the significance of that wall literally being torn down by exuberant East and West Germans seems no less relevant. Th Read More

  More like this in: Reuters, Germany, Berlin, MSNBC, European Union, The Berlin Wall, Angela Merkel, Cold War
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  Getting Hot in Iceland

  By David Jenison | Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:37 PM ET

  it was a small price to pay to experience one of Iceland's most popular natural attractions in a truly natural setting. Photos by Marti Read More

  More like this in: Water, Iceland, Travel, Destinations, Leisure Travel
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  Europe Looks to Sahara as Source of Solar Energy

  By David Bois | Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:35 PM ET

  transmission infrastructure.If implemented, the project could begin sending electricity north as early as 2015, and could account for 15 percent of Europe's power needs by 2050.Ironically, as PhysOrg points out, the same political instabilities and challenges residing in several African nation Read More

  More like this in: Technology, Energy, Africa, Germany, Clean Energy , The Guardian, Green Energy, Physorg.com, Green Tech, Sahara Desert
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  Ethan Hawke Backs Madonna

  By Kendall Hunter | Sun Nov 1, 2009 8:45 PM ET

  believed to be as many as two million in the country.While many Eastern Europeans are enthusiastic about Gypsy music and dance, one in two of Europe's estimated 12 million Roma claim to have suffered an act of discrimination in the past year, according to an EU report.After Madonna' Read More

  More like this in: Madonna, Music, Education, Associated Press, Halloween, The Associated Press, The Guardian, Romania, Discrimination, Eastern Europe, Racism