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Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Film promises massive storage Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a way to store the 1s and 0s of digital information in a thin film of organic molecules using a scanning tunneling microscope.
National Gardening Kathy Bond Borie	Greenroofs Beautiful as they may be, greenroofs are designed to solve environmental problems
Fast Company March 2003 Katharine Mieszkowski	Fill 'er Up With Hydrogen The California Fuel-Cell Partnership looks to go without gas.
Wired March 2003 Cory Doctorow	Maximum Overdrive Feel the need for processing speed? Welcome to the world of overclocking, where silicon lives fast, dies young, and leaves a good-looking corpse.
Wired March 2003 Carl Hoffman	Cheating Death The water speed record hasn't been broken in 25 years -- in fact, it's taken the life of just about everyone who's tried. Now two next-gen rocket jockeys are taking on the old guard.
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley	Teleportation goes the distance Teleportation makes it possible to transmit the quantum states, or structural information, of photons from one place to another. And making photons from one location materialize at another without traveling the distance between opens the way for sending messages long distances.
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Scheme smooths parallel processing Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mississippi State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Florida State University have drawn from nature to coordinate large numbers of parallel processors without the top-down management of a central plan.
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Butterflies offer lessons for robots Researchers from Oxford University in England have devised a method of studying the way butterflies fly, and their initial results show that the insects have many more tricks of flight than they get credit for.
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley	Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2003 Joe Gose	Energy: Balance Sheets Get A Charge from Conservation Rising energy costs and a heightened environmental awareness have forced owners of office buildings to scrutinize their energy consumption like never before.
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