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A US man who is six months pregnant, 10 years after undergoing sex change surgery, says he considers his unborn child a "miracle".

Thomas Beatie, 34, said it was his right to have a child. The medical procedures he underwent a decade ago did not affect his reproductive system.

His wife says she inseminated him using sperm from an anonymous donor. Their doc...

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Imagine every time you closed your curtains, you were capturing enough solar energy to power your laptop. The technology is available, but no one's packaged it up in a handy DIY kit at your local hardware store.
Sheila Kennedy hopes to be the first. She's not an interior designer but an architect and professor in practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

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In thrall to the green god

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By Martin Livermore


Environmentalism has become a religion, writes Martin Livermore in this week's Green Room; humans should take off their hair shirts, and enjoy the lifestyles which progress has created.


With the decline of Christianity and Marxism, environmentalism has taken the plac...

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Shetland's hydrogen technology pioneers
By William Little

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In Isle of Unst, the most northerly community in Britain, home to 500 inhabitants. Above Unst there is nothing but sea until the Arctic Circle. Self-reliance and initiative is no better represented than this small community has recent...

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Green energy plan 'will force more families into fuel poverty'
By James Kirkup and Paul Ecclestone
Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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In the article, it was mentioned that 4million households are in fuel poverty in the United Kingdoms (UK). According to Wikipedia, the UK Fuel poverty is said to occur when in order to heat its home to an adequate standard of...

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