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Microsoft challenges poor grade for Security Essentials

2013-01-17 16:52:22| CNET News.com

The antivirus program didn't fare well in a recent test, which isn't sitting well with the folks at Redmond. [Read more]

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U.S. Drought In 2013 Hurts Cattle Ranchers With Dry, Poor Wheat Crop

2013-01-15 19:38:50| Beef

Huffington Post Oklahoma rancher Kent Donica has given up. The drought that has ravaged pastures on his ranch and throughout the region has won. read more

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Drought-damaged states face poor outlook as dry weather persists

2013-01-10 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A persistent drought held its grip on America's bread basket on Thursday, with no sign of relief for the four main wheat-growing states. The poor outlook for winter wheat, which accounts for about 70% of the US crop, has raised fears about further food prices shocks, after widespread failure of last year's corn and soybean crops. Conditions in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas, which produce about a third of the country's wheat crop, remained unchanged virtually the worst on record, according...

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Heat: Hell on poor countries, no biggie for the rich

2013-01-10 14:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: It is a truism that climate change is going to hit poor countries earlier and harder than it hits rich countries. A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research - "Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century" - helps illumnate one aspect of why it`s true. (It`s an older paper, but I just discovered it.) It`s worth mulling over the findings a bit. The research is quite clever, mainly in its simplicity. Instead of using complicated models built on all sorts of...

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