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Fossil fuels that keep our planet running — oil, consistent gas and coal — were created from the decomposition of plants, plankton and other structured material over millions of years.
Today, scientists all over the globe are working to create fuels with the same properties but without that pesky 100 million-year wait. And "renewable petroleum" [...]

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Not all was what it seemed during the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
Beijing organizers confirmed Tuesday that some of the fireworks display featured prerecorded footage.
Fireworks that burst into the configuration of 29 gigantic footprints were shown trudging beyond the Beijing skyline to the National Stadium near the start of the ceremony.
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Bryan Beer, a citrus grower in southwestern Florida, sees himself as a bit of a pioneer. He’s not digging for gold. It’s more like he’s planting for oil.
He is planting a jatropha tree, a plant that can make diesel fuel and could unified day power a 747. His plans are a little less ambitious; [...]

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NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft on account of a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging period shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.
"September 2014 is when we are saying we will launch the first crew on the Orion," program manager Jeff Hanley [...]

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NEW YORK (FORTUNE) — Talk about your summer scorchers.
One month after its debut, Apple’s new iPhone has affect the 3 million sold mark, according to analyst Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative.
"They are seeing unprecedented request," says Cote, adding that there appears to be no signs of a license to up yet. [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Qwest Communications International Inc. rose in morning trading Monday after a Citi Investment Research analyst upgraded the stock, saying Qwest could report improved sales and top Wall Street’s expectations.
Michael Rollins raised his rating to "Buy" from "Hold." He said Qwest (Q, Fortune 500) should reveal improved adventurousness sales [...]

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He was gone. Kristi and Claudio Lai turned around for just one minute and their son had disappeared at Sea World.
After frantically searching the park, they found him 15 minutes later on a jungle gym. That was when the Simi Valley, California, couple knew they wanted to get Giancarlo a GPS-equipped cell phone very [...]

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One afternoon up to date in 2002, Mukhsin Alhassan Kadir drove his taxi from the busy streets of Accra, the superb of Ghana, to a close at hand market community to meet a man who wanted to trade a plot of native land for two cell phones.
When he arrived, Kadir collected the papers for [...]

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I was stranded in the Arizona desert in my broken-down truck wondering if I had made a big mistake: Our CNN.com biofuel road trip seemed doomed to ebb.
My newly purchased 1978 International Harvester Scout quit on me during our very unscientific experiment to drive a biodiesel-powered truck from California to Georgia in two-weeks.
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The stinky, steaming make public that escapes from a car’s tailpipe could help us use less gas.
Researchers are competing to meet a confrontation from the U.S. Department of Energy: Improve fuel economy 10 percent by way of converting wasted exhaust heat into energy that can help power the vehicle.
General Motors Corp. is close [...]

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