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      <description><![CDATA[The Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2012 Benchmarking Report shows that bicycling is getting more popular as a method of transportation; the number of commuters who bicycle to work increased by 57% from 2000 to 2009.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Conservationists working in Central Africa to save the world's rarest gorilla have good news: the Cross River gorilla has more suitable habitat than previously thought, including vital corridors that, if protected, can help the great apes move between sites in search of mates, according to the North Carolina Zoo, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and other groups.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered a series of peptides, found on the internal structures of influenza viruses that could lead to the development of a universal vaccine for influenza, one that gives people immunity against all strains of the disease, including seasonal, avian, and swine flu.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[California, long a national leader in cutting auto pollution, pushed the envelope further Friday as state regulators approved rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and put significantly more pollution-free vehicles on the road in coming years.]]></description>
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      <title>Fungi Discovered In The Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless landfills.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Just as France was being chastised for excessive national borrowing with a sovereign debt downgrade, thousands of lucky French people had their financial obligations forgiven after the country's oldest bank decided to simply wipe their slate clean.]]></description>
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      <title>Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and malaria</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.]]></description>
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      <title>The Cleanweb Takes Off</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This past weekend in New York, a group of high tech companies, venture investors, hackers, college students held the second Cleanweb Hackathon  -- a gathering where software developers and serial entrepreneurs, fueled by coffee and burritos -- or similar fare -- stay up one, two or more nights writing code for apps that just may change the world.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The U.S. federal government has designated 108,556 square kilometers (41,914 square miles) as critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), the largest of the world's marine turtles and one of the most endangered.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Early results from the world's first human trial using embryonic stem cells to treat diseases of the eye suggest the method is safe, say researchers.]]></description>
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