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"Can Millet Take On Quinoa? First, It'll Need A Makeover"
"Walk through a health food store and you'll find amaranth, sorghum, quinoa — heritage grains that have been staples around the world for generations. Americans are just discovering them. There's another age-old grain that grows right here on the Great Plains: millet."
Source: NPR, 10/03/2013
"A DEET-Like Mosquito Spray That Smells Like Jasmine Or Grapes?"
"California scientists are reporting a pair of victories in the epic struggle between man and mosquito. A team at the University of California, Riverside, appears to have finally figured out how bugs detect the insect repellent known as DEET. And the team used its discovery to identify several chemical compounds that promise to be safer and cheaper than DEET, according to the report in the journal Nature."
Source: NPR, 10/03/2013
"Blessed by Geography, Fujairah Flexes New Clout"
"Fujairah is emerging from its status as a back-water. The United Arab Emirates, led by Abu Dhabi, is turning the little emirate into an export hub for its oil in case of trouble from Iran."
Source: NY Times, 10/03/2013
"BP's Well Control Exec Says He Was Unprepared for U.S. Gulf Blowout"
"BP's manager in charge of controlling the Macondo blowout in 2010 was never trained to permanently plug a ruptured oil well and said in court on Wednesday the British company was not fully prepared for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history."
Source: Reuters, 10/03/2013
"Tokyo Electric Says Contaminated Water Leaked at Fukushima"
"The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Tuesday that four tonnes of rainwater contaminated with low levels of radiation leaked during an operation to transfer the water between tank holding areas."
Source: Reuters, 10/03/2013
"Lawn Fertilizer Limits Take Effect, But Effectiveness Questioned"
"Among the hundreds of new laws taking effect Tuesday (Oct. 1) is one meant to help the Chesapeake Bay by limiting when, where and how Marylanders should feed their lawns. One scientist, though, suggests homeowners could help the bay better by forgoing lawn fertilizer altogether."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 10/03/2013
"More Bad News for Minnesota Moose"
"Minnesota's dwindling moose herd has a year off from human hunters in 2013, but that doesn't mean life for the big north woods critters is a walk in the park. Moose are still being hit hard by disease, injury and parasites, and they are still prey for four-legged hunters who don't need licenses".
Source: Duluth News Tribune, 10/03/2013
"Fracking May Be Polluting River with Radioactive Waste"
"Fracking may be contaminating a Pennsylvania river with radioactive waste, a Duke University study to be published this week shows."
Source: Climate Central, 10/03/2013
Plowed Grassland Habitat Means Trouble for Wildlife and Hunters
"The thousands of non-resident hunters who will head west this fall -- including to the Dakotas -- to hunt pheasants and waterfowl will find less habitat and fewer places to hunt."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 10/03/2013
