Vol. 137 No. 2763, December 2008
Index
- A Christmas Carol's relevance today.
- Obama seen as father figure.
- Finances top resolutions list.
- "Are we all socialists now?".
- A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean--in the form of sediment--as all the other rains in that country all year long combined, reveals research funded by the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Aggressively replacing the world's incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) could reduce lighting energy demand by nearly 40% and cut greenhouse gas emissions from day one, maintains a report from the Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C.
- Another fine mess for Generation Y.
- Global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt than previously was thought in certain regions of the western U.S., possibly increasing wildfire risk and creating difficult water management challenges for agriculture, ecosystems, and urban populations, contend researchers from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
- Internet shopping lone bright spot.
- North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3-4,300,000,000 barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.
- To learn what emissions alternative-fuel vehicles produce and how climate change might affect them, the Environmental Protection Agency is funding a research project at the University of California, Davis.
- A fresh start? That depends.
- Portraits of power.
- Holidays may prove painful reminder.
- Button down security amid the festivities.
- Do not stay with relatives.
- Multifamily builders choose to go green.
- Trends affecting tomorrow's world.
- Do not run up unreasonable debt.
- Family get-togethers can spur concern.
- How to keep your job while still having fun.
- Promoting physical activity in kids.
- Extra time off hard to come by.
- Good pet parenting always is in season.
- Techies prefer to give personal gifts.
- Amazon rain forests again losing trees fast.
- Ethanol demand fueling shortages.
- More access needed to biotech crop data.
- Greenland's glaciers continue to break up.
- How mosquitoes survive the winter.
- Revolutionary C[O.sub.2] maps zoom in on sources.
- People prefer precise percentages.
- What a long strange trip it's been.
- Vaccination helps older adults.
- Blueprint needed for science reform.
- Nothing trivial about shopaholics.
- Women conflicted concerning IT jobs,.
- Depression era mentality haunts baby boomers.
- Digital evidence just as important as DNA.
- E-mail: when is enough enough?
- Squeezing stress from the season.