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San Francisco to ban plastic grocery bags

Submitted by

ender6574

on Wednesday March 28 2007, @01:36AM

ender6574 writes "According to CNN, it appears that San Francisco, CA has approved legislation that would make it the first US city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets to help promote recycling http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/27/environment.baggs .reut/index.html?eref=rss_latest What is the opinion of the /. community? Is this a CA first that should be followed by the rest of the nation? Or just more of the crazy enviro-fruitiness that so often comes from California?"

One million CC albums downloaded with BitTorrent

Submitted by

lkratz

on Tuesday March 27 2007, @02:27PM

lkratz writes "Jamendo, a free music community, has distributed freely and legally more than one million albums using the popular peer to peer technology BitTorrent. The music is Creative Commons Licensed and is coming from everywhere in the world. Inspired by Chris Anderson's theory, this online music platform helps volunteered artists promote themselves in search engine like mininova or torrentz.

Music is free, but supporting these artists is ok too !"

Rare Semi-Identical Twins Discovered

Submitted by daftna on Tuesday March 27 2007, @01:38PM

daftna writes "Twins can be identical, fraternal and apparently semi-identical, scientists now report.

Researchers discovered twins who are identical on their mom's side of the equation but share only half their genes from dad.

Here's how it happened: Two sperm cells fertilized one egg — an event assumed to be very rare — then split into two embryos."