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Workplace rudeness comes with hefty price tag |
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Written by By Anne Bergman, USC communications specialist
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Aug. 11, 2010 – Your mother was right: you can catch more
flies with honey than with vinegar. It’s true even in Corporate America, where
just being nice can save a company millions of dollars.
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Student leads drive to restore school’s greenhouse |
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Written by Toyota Canada
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Aug. 3, 2010, Burlington, Ont. – Andrew Wong is an Ontario
secondary school student who mobilizes his peers to achieve environmental
goals. At school, he recognized that an abandoned greenhouse was an
underutilized resource with great potential to educate students about plant
science and horticulture.
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WUR: how dangerous viroids in plants are spread |
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Written by Dave Harrison
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July 26, 2010, Wageningen, the
Netherlands – The dangerous potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) mainly
ends up in
tomato plants as a result of human actions. The main source of infection
appears to be ornamental shrubs, with infection via seeds rarely if ever
playing a role.
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Studying longer shelf life for tomatoes |
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Written by By Brian Wallheimer
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July 19, 2010, West Lafayette, IN – A Purdue
University researcher has found a sort of fountain of youth for tomatoes
that
extends their shelf life by about a week.
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Sustainability: will we recognize it when we see it? |
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Written by Dave Harrison
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July 12, 2010 – Most people today
embrace sustainability as
a good thing, and it may be the greatest technological challenge our
society
has ever faced. But, in a
paper just published in the journal BioScience,
Michigan Technological University wildlife ecologist John A. Vucetich
and
Michigan State University environmental ethicist Michael Nelson say that
the
technological challenge of sustainability pales in comparison to the
ethical
crisis it presents to society.
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