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IEEE Spectrum July 2007 M. V. Ramana	More Missiles Than Megawatts India's nuclear choices have favored warheads over civilian reactors, and those choices are taking their toll. Between its burgeoning economy and a population that is projected to eclipse China's by 2050, India has difficult choices to make regarding its energy future.
Chemistry World July 2007 Ned Stafford	Seeing the Environmental Wood for the Nanotech Trees German environmentalists issued a report on the potential health and environmental risks of nanotechnology in the hope of rallying international support for more regulatory oversight.
Chemistry World June 25, 2007 Arthur Rogers	Golden Opportunity to Halt Quicksilver Trade The European Parliament is supporting plans to ban exports of mercury. Politicians hope such a ban would curb hazards in the developing world created by the use of mercury in activities such as wildcat gold mining.
Entrepreneur July 2007 Julie Moline	Clean Up How to offset travel's toxic toll on the environment.
ifeminists June 22, 2007 Christobel Mackenzie	Feminists Against Censorship Respond to New Child Abuse Law A London, England-area feminist group outlines why new pedophile legislation would not be helpful in protecting children.
Smithsonian July 2007 J. Madeleine Nash	Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought.
ifeminists June 20, 2007 McCormick & Sacks	Texas Frozen Embryo Case The Texas Supreme Court is currently considering the legal briefs in Roman v. Roman frozen embryo case, in which Augusta Roman seeks to implant the embryos created during her six-year marriage to Randy Roman. Randy Roman is trying to prevent this.
InternetNews June 19, 2007 Roy Mark	Want My E-Mail? Get a Warrant Appeals panel rules government abused Stored Communications Act to unlawfully seize e-mail.
Scientific American July 2007	Bad Execution In recent months, news of numerous botched lethal injections has led courts and state governments to place moratoriums on the practice in a third of the 38 U.S. states that have the death penalty. What's to be done?
Scientific American July 2007 Jose Goldemberg	The Limited Appeal of Nuclear Energy To developing nations, the new arguments for nuclear power are far from compelling.
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