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      <title>Tech Awards Honor Technology for Humanity</title>
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      <title>Carbon Nanotubes' Threat Turned into an Opportunity for Agriculture</title>
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      <title>Energy Management Startup Wins 2009 CleanTech Open</title>
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      <title>Nanotech's Need to Strike a Balance in Risk Management</title>
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      <title>California Sets Energy Standards for Televisions</title>
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      <title>The Tradeoff in Nanotech for Photovoltaics</title>
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      <title>Intel &amp; AMD Both Claim Bragging Rights</title>
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      <title>Numonyx Makes Stackable Phase-Change Memory</title>
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      <title>iPhone App Makes Identifying Nano-Enabled Products Easy</title>
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      <title>NASA finds water on the Moon, raising hopes for a Moon base</title>
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      <title>A Pro-Antitrust Administration?</title>
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      <title>Obama Describes Nanotech Solutions to Energy as "Neat Stuff"</title>
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      <title>Has China Surpassed the US in Nanotech?</title>
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      <title>The Good and Bad of Nanotech Reported Nearly Simultaneously</title>
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      <title>New MEMS for Monitoring Bridges</title>
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      <title>American Chemical Society Touts Nanobots as Nanotechnology's Big Impact</title>
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      <title>Will Industrial Scale Production of Carbon Nanotubes Enable Their Widespread Use?</title>
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      <title>Is Deep Brain Stimulation a Cure-all?</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[New DBS research shows therapeutic benefits for Tourette syndrome patients.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IeeeSpectrumSemiconductors/~4/P9auJPlLweE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Moving Past Determinations about Nanotech Safety to How Do We Begin to Regulate It?</title>
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      <title>Netbooks Are Only Part of The Solution</title>
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