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You can\'t sugarcoat the sugar industry\'s greed

2014-02-04 07:09:32| Sugar Industry News

When it comes to money-fueled influence peddling, few special interest groups rival the sugar industry, which according to the Heritage Foundation has spent some $50 million over the last five years to preserve its near-monopolistic stranglehold on the U.S. market. A pretty sweet deal, eh? In a time when the president decries money in politics and greed, it\'s the kind of investment that would make Gordon Gekko blush. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/31/you-cant-sugarcoat-the-sugar-industrys-greed/#ixzz2sKaVxi5T

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What Comes After Greed in Technology?

2013-12-16 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

I just finished reading a very interesting book by Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson, Humanity in the Machine: What Comes After Greed? At the book's core is the idea that we eventually will use machines to make our lives better as opposed to coming up with creative ways to get more stuff. This seems an appropriate subject for this time of year.

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The Greed Gene

2013-09-08 03:26:54| Chemicals - Topix.net

Bayer CropScience sued Dow Agrosciences over a claim to bogus genetics. Its assertion was found not infringed; affirmed on appeal.

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Were India's floods caused by reckless greed?

2013-06-24 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Natural disasters often follow a predictable path in India. A flood or an earthquake happens every few years, the government blames the vagaries of nature, the right sympathetic noises are made, and all is forgotten until the next one comes along. But last week's cataclysmic floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, surrounded by the Himalayas, have provoked a debate on whether this particular disaster was caused - or at least worsened - by reckless human greed. At last count, 5000 people...

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