Backed by 6,000 studies and 50 years of use, atrazine can be used safely

For 50 years, sound science has governed U.S. regulatory decisions on atrazine, a well-studied herbicide that farmers rely upon worldwide to produce safe, healthy and abundant crops. Syngenta, as a science-based company, looks forward to a continuing, open and transparent safety review of atrazine by the U.S. EPA in 2010 and expects a positive outcome.

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42’s Data Center Calculators illustrate the dramatic cost and carbon savings through efficiency efforts.

IBM has built an extensive marketing campaign around “on-demand.” Though the slogan has been more directed at their business patrons, the concept has become extremely relevant to our personal lives. We can have an entire musical catalog in minutes. Tracing our family histories doesn’t require exhaustive research, only points and clicks. Forget the mall on Black Friday; Amazon, Apple, and Abercrombie.com are always open. A generation of young scholars need never experience card catalogs, microfiche, or the Dewey Decimal System.

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Tis the season for BYOB. Yes, bring your own shopping bag!  As we begin the home stretch for the year of 2009 and the arrival of the holiday shopping season, it is crazy how much shopping we historically do here in America and world-wide during the coming weeks. Whether it be frequent trips to the grocery store as we keep our kitchen’s stocked for wonderful meals and tasty treats or those sometimes dreaded, yet skillful “6 bags on each arm” walks through the packed local mall, it all adds up to so much unnecessary waste.  One of the most blatant examples of this waste is disposable shopping bags.

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