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Chemistry World March 3, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Thin Films Cooled by an Electric Field A material that can be cooled by an electric field could replace greenhouse gases as a refrigerant in household and industrial fridges, scientists claim.
Chemistry World March 2006 Karen Harries-Rees	Editorial: Engaging with the Media Misleading or incorrect science stories regularly appear in the media. Current initiatives in the UK to make expert scientists accessible to media outlets for commentary are a start, but are clearly not enough.
InternetNews March 2, 2006 Glenn Minnis	Who's Watching Whom? Web search privacy rights takes on government's need to know in an epic battle.
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al.	Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Marine Critters Record Global Warming Layers of fossilized marine creatures have acted as an independent record of ocean temperature for millennia. Now, data from such layers is mirroring the same warming trend that instruments have shown -- suggesting humans are contributing to global warming.
Geotimes March 2006 Megan Sever	Real-World Fuel Economy Test On Feb. 1, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a proposal to revamp its fuel economy tests, which tell consumers what mileage per gallon to expect from their new vehicles and is expected to take effect for model year 2008 cars.
Geotimes March 2006 Bergstrom & Lipsitch	Evolution Lessons From Infectious Diseases Even though the critics of evolutionary biology rarely dispute examples of microbial evolution on human timescales, the public appears largely unaware of the importance and success of evolutionary biology in dealing with human disease.
Reason March 2006 Cathy Young	Torturing Logic Who would have imagined immediately after 9/11, that four years later we would be having a debate on whether and how much the United States should torture prisoners.
Reason March 2006 Tim Harford	Why Poor Countries Are Poor The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy place where it's in most people's interest to take actions that directly or indirectly damage everyone else.
Reason March 2006 Kerry Howley	Absolution in Your Cup What is revolutionary about Fair Trade is not the brand's focus on poverty but the suggestion that consumption is a moral response to inequality.
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