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New Report Claims China Squeezing US Firms Out of Its Renewable Market

A new industry report claims that China is favoring its local wind power firms, and that it's effectively squeezing out US firms attempting to set up operations.

8 Days To Earth Hour: 101 Things To Do

Two years ago I wrote about my worry about getting through an hour without consuming electricity; our local paper came up with a good list of sixty tongue slightly in cheek things to do. We excerpted a few from the Globe and Mail:

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Legal adviser to U.S. Haiti missionaries arrested

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - A Dominican Republic man who acted as legal adviser to a group of U.S. missionaries held for several weeks in Haiti on child kidnapping charges has been arrested in Santo Domingo, local police said on Friday.

Chris Young Formulates a Five-Year Plan

Chris Young began plotting his career in country music back when he was a high school student in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He did a lot of local musical theater and put together a little country band and played wherever he could.

New York: Chase Jennifer Aniston by Following the Path of 'The Bounty Hunter'

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are getting cozy on the big screen in The Bounty Hunter, which opens nationwide today.

Formspring.me: Another Startup Packing Its Bags for Silicon Valley

News broke yesterday that popular online Q&A startup Formspring.me had raised some $2,5 million in venture funding and would be relocating to Silicon Valley from Indianapolis.

Charlton Athletic vs. Gillingham: Better Than Manchester United-Liverpool

Let's put this into perspective: at the end of the 1994-95 season, Gillingham Football Club were beset with financial problems, and were teetering perilously on the brink of extinction.

Vodafone Spain replacing microSD cards on 3,000 virus-infected handsets

It looks like the virus-strewn HTC Magic that was recently purchased from Vodafone UK is only the tip of the iceberg.

When Netflix Isn't Enough

There used to be two independent movie rental places in my neighborhood, with one just a few blocks further away offering a seemingly endless array of movies - blockbusters, esoteric indies, extreme horror, sexploitation and grindhouse, triple X features, and even dubiously dubbed impossible to get

Three iPhone Apps To Save Yourself & The World

We saw a cartoon recently that shows the attendees of a "Climate Summit", with a single naysayer yelling out from the back of the crowd "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"

Well, in the spirit of creating a better world for nothing, we bring to you three iPhon