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All in favor?

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Prominent economists met at the Copenhagen Consensus in May 2004 for finding ways to tackle global problems. They recommended donation of basic medical aid to poor countries by the rich nations for alleviation of malnutrition, donating aid for preventing AIDS in Africa and Asia and implementation of small-scale water technologies and community water supplies in impoverished countries.

Author: Gibbs, W. Wayt
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
Administration of General Economic Programs, Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Asia, Africa, Economists, Developing Countries, Foreign Economic & Financial Assistance, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Economic aspects, International aspects, Economic assistance, Foreign economic assistance

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Attentive autos

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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that technology such as DVD players, touch-screen maps and other doodads report a 1.5 million crashes every year due to inattentive drivers. Thus, the European Union has launched a four-year, 12.5 million pounds sterling project to develop industry wide standards for adaptive driver-vehicle interfaces by 2008.

Author: Gibbs, W. Wayt
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
Government expenditures, Powers and duties, Traffic engineering, United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Government finance

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As we may live

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Georgia Tech's computer scientists have built a computer science lab to test live-in subjects. The dream house will test many research ideas of the past decade.

Author: Gibbs, W. Wayt
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2000
Research, Technology, Georgia, Computer scientists, Computer science, Georgia Institute of Technology

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