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A Solar Grand Plan

Some people think that that electricity should be used more and less gas because we are eventually going to run out. One quick fact in 2050 the whole usa could be powered by solar power. They would put in the desert one because pretty much now one lives there and two there is a lot of sun. In 2007 there were 6.9 billion barrels of oil if we don’t change in 2050 there will be 10.9 but if we do change there will be 2.7 that is a lot better. Another one, in 2007 there was billion tons of carbon dioxide was 6.1 in 2050 if we don’t change 9.4 and if we do change 2.3. What do I think of this? This will help the world so much it is the best idea ever.

Canadians increasingly chatting it up on cellphones: StatsCan

this article is about how many Canadians are using cell phones.

Less than a quarter of Canadian households now rely solely on land-line phone service, as the steady shift to cellphones and other alternatives continues, new figures show.
Only 3.1 million households 24 per cent of Canadian households had just land line phone service in December, according to the latest residential telephone service survey by Statistics Canada. That's down from 3.7 million households, or 29.6 per cent, a year earlier.They say that most households still use land line phones but the number is going down as more consumers switch to alternative forms of phone communication.Stats canada say that 72.4 per cent of households are now using at least one cellphone, up from 67.1 per cent in the prior year's survey. it says that more people are using cell phones and abandon their land line phones.surveys found 6.4 per cent of Canadian households rely on cellphones as their only form of telephone service, up from 5.1 per cent in 2006.
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i think that this isn't really a bad thing, because u don't want to be stuck at home all day waiting for a call to come in, what if they never even call, and u want to go out,but you cant because you have to wait for the person to call. just get a cell phone and thats how they can reach u if they really need to.

maybe im to addicted to cell phones but thats what i think.

Saint John zoo pleads for return of baby monkey

this article is a about a young monkey getting stolen from a zoo in saint johns.on tuesday night a young Callimico goeldii monkey was stolen from the cherry Brooke zoo in saint johns.this monkey was not even one.The staff say that this isn't just monkey business. The theft of this incident has appeared to use a hacksaw and kicked a heavy, padlocked door open. They say the monkey is black and really tiny obviously,because it is not even 1 years old. This little monkey was part of an international breeding program,adding,the zoo wont press any charges if the monkey is returned."We will not give a name, just please, please bring this animal back," Collrin said.They say that the little monkey needs special feed and should be with parents and siblings.it can also carry disease, It has upper and lower canine teeth. It can inflict damage and it's terrorized right now," she said.
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in my opinion i think that whoever took the poor little monkey should take it back because it has to have special food for itself and needs parents and siblings just like we do,plus their saying it can also have a disease, and in case they brought it to Canada i don't want to be diagnosed with monkey germs..hehe..

Consumer Alert: Plastics in Baby Bottles May Pose Health Risk

The reason: a growing number of studies show that exposure to low levels of BPA during pregnancy, infancy and early childhood may affect normal development and "sensitivity to onset of disease later in life, most particularly the potential for mammary and prostate cancer," says NTP associate director John Bucher, a toxicologist. "Exposure to BPA in utero tends to cause the differences between males and females you typically see to diminish." BPA has been used in the U.S. and worldwide since the 1950s as an essential building block of the polycarbonate plastic in water bottles as well as in epoxy resins used to line cans to prevent corrosion and food contamination; more than 2.3 billion pounds (one billion kilograms) of BPA are manufactured annually in the U.S. and more than three million metric tons of it are used worldwide in a year. The NTP found that, contrary to manufacturers' previous claims, humans are exposed to significant levels of BPA. Hentges admits that "there are several studies where there's limited evidence [of harm in animals]," but adds that he doesn't believe "there's a scientific basis to take action." Canadian officials say that more studies will be done, including monitoring some 5,000 pregnant women and their babies for BPA exposure levels. In the U.S. industry, academics and government officials also plan to conduct more research, including analyses of how BPA interacts with the human body and its effects on development in pregnant macaques.

polar bears dying becasue of global warming, global warming because of humans!

This articele is telling us about polar bears in the artic dying every day, because of global warming!
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at almost twice the rate of that of the rest of the world, and it is threatening to place the entire Arctic ecosystem in jeopardy. For the polar bear, an irreplaceable symbol of the Arctic, climate change could lead to their extinction.
The polar bear depends on sea ice to survive, hunting for seal until the ice disappears every summer. As climate warming reduces the ice, the polar bear loses precious hunting time, and ends up dying or the polar bear has no place to rest after a huge amount of time swimming, and finally dies because there was no ice and ends up drowning, the number of polar bears is declining every day!!!
How can this stop? Global warming is the reason of this happening, and who can we blame for global warming? Only us, all the humans. Since many many years ago, people (scientists etc) started warning people about global warming, and all the consequences it would bring. People did not listen and continued living the same life without worrrying a bit of what would happen, and today, people are seeing the consequences and if it is not too late to change, people should change or soon its going to be too late, and we will regret it and maybe will not be able to do anything!

MY OPINION:
I think its really important to think about what this article is saying. Global warming is actually happening, and sometimes with the life we have, we forget everything that is happening outside the bubble we live in! I think this kind of article is really good because it makes you think, and remember that people and animals, and pretty much the whole world is suffering so much because of global warming even if we dont notice it! I think everyone should do something to help, or not to get things worse than they already are, because for me, everything that is happening and that may happen really soon because of global warming, is very scary, because maybe today we live a perfect life but in a few years, maybe we will be suffering so much! I think everything that is happening to polar bears is really sad, and we should do something, maybe even if it is small, to try and stop this! I liked this article alot because it made me think!! I thought it was really interesting!!!
Maria Rubio!

Patrick Breaks Auto Racing Barrier

This article is about the first american woman danica patrick wining the major auto race on sunday.
she used a successful fuel stragady to capture an Indycar series event in motegi, japan.It says she won the race by almost 6 seconds over helio castroneves, the 2 time indianpolis 500 winner. Patrick who is 26 in 2005 became the first woman to lead the Indy 500, won in her 50th IndyCar Series start. Three drivers ahead of her had to stop for fuel late in the race, and Patrick took the lead from Castroneves on the 198th of 200 laps.
Patrick that is 5 foot 2,hundred pounds, moved to the poweful team co-owned by michael andretti last year won the third race of the IndyCar Series season. She credited her team for implementing the fuel strategy she needed to win the race.She said “Finally! This is a long time coming,” in an interview in Victory Lane.she said it was a fuel stragady race, but my team called it perfectly for me.I know I was on the same strategy as Helio and when I passed him for the lead, I couldn’t believe it. This is fabulous.”said patrick.

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i think this is a really good thing for a woman to win a really big race like this.There should be more woman drivers in america even in canada,because people dont really think woman can do this ind of thing. i have to admit i like cars and i would race if i could.

Salty, Old and, Perhaps, a Sign of Early Life

In this article, it talks abouit how scientists found out that where the desert is now in New Mexico there was a big ocean, that dried but that left salt that has molecules of cellulose in it, that is what makes up plant-cell walls, so with this they can look at stuff and things that existed even before dinosaurs.
So Because the molecule is made by living organisms, its presence in the salt deposit is evidence that some kind of ancient organism made the cellulose trapped inside.
To find out the molecules, scientists took materials from the salt to put them in a solution that would kill everything exept for cellulose. So The research team used radioactive dating to determine that the salt crystals—and the cellulose inside of them—formed more than 250 million years ago. In all that time, the crystals have hardly changed.
The findings tell the research team that ancient salt deposits like these might be ideal for preserving ancient molecules, which are signs of early life.
The evidence says that the organisms that live before and that the molecules that their bodies had, broke down really easily because of sunlight, or other living things that diggested them.
So there is a special name for scientists that study this kind of things, like the molecules, and the science they study is call astrobiology, that means the study of life in the universe, so they are trying to look for things like life in other planets, and in other universe, and to answer questions about life in space, like does something exists now, or does something existed in the past? and that kind of stuff.
Because they are interesting things that make this posible like Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa once had oceans, so maybe they had the salt depossits too, so maybe there was life in those planets too, but theres nothing that we can know for sure...

What I think about this research, is that there are a lot of things that can be connected between out planet Earth and some other planets in the Universe, just like Mars, so I think that if more research like this is done, maybe a lot of more proofs can be find to know if there has been life in some other planets and to compare them one to another, to see how different one planet can be from another one.
But I also find this really interesting becuase I didn't have any idea that the molecules in the salt could tell you more about life a long time ago, of the organisms that lived before we did, so I find this really interesting, to find new ways of discovering life in the past, to really now more about how was it before we (humans) started living in Earth, and how was life before, and to know the reasons because it changed and how and why did things happened.

by: Marcela Murillo Trujano