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"I got my job through Twitter"

“When Renee Libby, 25, was laid off from her public relations position at the end of May, she decided there was only one thing for her to do: tweet. That's because there are few better ways to build an extensive network so quickly. The micro-blogging site has over 50 million unique visitors a month and is growing rapidly

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Google trick tracks extinctions

“Google's algorithm for ranking web pages can be adapted to determine which species are critical for sustaining ecosystems, say researchers. According to a paper in PLoS Computational Biology, “PageRank” can be applied to the study of food webs

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It’s not enough to make green cars, we need green roads as well!

“The global roads network is vast and growing at one of the fastest paces in history. In 97 percent of the continental U.S., you're no more than three miles from a paved road of one kind or another, and the most recent CIA World Fact Book places the number of worldwide paved roads at 15.99 million kilometers. By comparison, the moon is a mere 384,400 kilometers (almost 239,000 miles) away.” “The environmental effects of a road do not stop when construction is complete.

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