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...sense of how technological progress is translating into environmental gains, take a trip to Lafarge's research campus, just outside the French city of Lyons. The world's largest cement company, Lafarge has set itself a goal: by 2010, it will cut its net CO2 emissions for every ton of cement it produces to 20% below the 1990 level. But it is also steaming ahead with research into smarter, stronger and less polluting products, including ultra-high-performance concrete. Research director Casanova traces the path of innovation back to the 1980s, when the first big gains were made in increasing...
...leader Partners in Lighting, which Philips bought in 2006. The company followed that purchase a year later with the $2.7 billion acquisition of Genlyte, a big U.S. player that makes lights for offices, highways, factories and outdoor advertising. Those deals come on top of its own massive in-house research efforts in R&D labs from Silicon Valley to Eindhoven in the Netherlands...
...SOURCE: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SPACE RESEARCH...
...National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, its first since the technology bubble burst in 2001. While a recession is typically defined as two consecutive quarters of contracting GDP, the NBER measures other factors, like employment and income, which delayed its results. This downturn is so far the third longest since the Great Depression...
...SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH...