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A big, sweet paradox: is sugar really to blame for obesity?
2015-07-27 09:06:36| Sugar Industry News
Our sugar consumption is significantly declining, a controversial new paper shows. "Sugar consumption in Australia appears to have been relatively stable in the three decades following the end of World War II but since the late 1970s, there has been a substantial decline," author Bill Shrapnel said. "To put the decline in consumption into context, by 2011, Australians were each consuming 8.3 kilograms or 39.5 cups of sugar less per year compared to 1970."
Sebastio Salgado focuses on big picture parable of reforestation in Brazil
2015-07-27 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When the renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado took over family land in the state of Minas Gerais, instead of the tropical paradise that he remembered as a child, he found the trees cut down and the wildlife gone. He was devastated. It was 1994 and he had just returned from a traumatic assignment reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, he told a meeting of religious leaders discussing climate change in Paris this week. The land was as sick as I was everything was destroyed, said Salgado....
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Ex-Aerojet chief to head Norwegian 3D printer; eyes big US site
2015-07-27 05:15:46| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Norway's Norsk Titanium AS said on Sunday that it had named Warren Boley, a former executive with Aerojet Rocketdyne, to head the company as it moves to establish the world's first industrial-scale 3D printing facility in the United States. Boley, who also worked for United Technologies Corp, told Reuters the site of the 200,000-square-foot plant would be announced in coming weeks by an unnamed U.S. state, which is funding the facility as part of public-private partnership.
United has a big profit but too many little letdowns to take off
2015-07-26 08:59:43| Airlines - Topix.net
United Airlines planes now sport the logo of the old Continental Airlines, and columnist Phil Rosenthal argues both airlines lost some luster after their 2010 corporate marriage. United Airlines planes now sport the logo of the old Continental Airlines, and columnist Phil Rosenthal argues both airlines lost some luster after their 2010 corporate marriage.
Southwest flight attendants reject contract by big margin
2015-07-26 04:45:11| Airlines - Topix.net
The vote of 9,916 to 1,446 sends negotiators for the Transport Workers Union and Southwest management back to the negotiating table more than two years after talks began. The proposed deal received opposition as much for changes in work rules, duty times and other language as for the pay proposal - an 8 percent ratification bonus, an immediate 3 percent pay raise, two more annual raises of 3 percent and two annual bonuses of 3 percent by 2019.
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