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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:56 |
 SOME of the world's most prestigious cosmetic houses have been accused by an environmental group of using Australian women as guinea pigs.
The cosmetic industry says the controversial use of nanoparticles is not widespread. But an independent analysis by Friends of the Earth, which has described nanoparticle cosmetics as the 21st-century equivalent of lead and arsenic face powders, found nanomaterials in all 10 randomly selected foundations.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:49 |
 For parents wanting to provide their children some good, clean off-roading fun, the Fushin, a smaller-than-normal all-terrain vehicle, seemed just the thing.
Except the Chinese import with jaunty yellow paint and a low $250 price tag was missing one feature: front brakes.
In the $5 billion market for A.T.V.’s, the skyrocketing growth of Chinese imports is becoming the latest challenge for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is starting a global campaign to improve the safety of a product that kills more people — about 900 a year — than any of the 15,000 other products the commission regulates.
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 10:52 |
The world’s most populous country is a net exporter of food and drink, with exports in volume terms worth between 25 million and 30 million tonnes.  By value, exports were worth just over US$31bn (A$33.2b) in 2008. Whilst the most significant overseas markets for the Chinese food and drinks industry include nearby Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, the country is also a major exporter of food and drink to the US, EU countries and Russia.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 08:57 |
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 09:47 |
 Maryland, with a pedestrian death rate that is significantly higher than the national average, ranks second from the bottom nationally in its spending of federal transportation funds on resources for walkers and bicyclists, according to a study released Monday.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:00 |
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:15 |
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A new EU project called Sartre will develop and test technology for vehicles that can drive themselves in long road trains on motorways. Its inventors say the technology has the potential to improve traffic flow and journey times, reduce accidents and improve fuel consumption and hence reduce CO2 emissions.
HOW IT WORKS: The truck at the head of this road train is under full manual control while the five cars behind it have locked onto its signal and are following closely to maximise the slipstream effect - without any input from their drivers.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:23 |
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