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CONNECTED LIFE The wind around the high mountains of garbage on the outskirts of Mumbai is so strong that it blows away the smell of rotting waste, Hassan Bano believes. However, the high cost of these measures could make the plant unviable, argues Raj Kumar Sharma, who has filed a case in the Bombay High Court demanding that the dumping grounds be closed and the waste processed. Furthermore, making such an investment would encourage the city to keep feeding the plant rather than reduce waste, says Dharmesh Shah, a policy adviser with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. [Extracted from the article]

Small businesses lag far behind their larger counterparts at proportional investments in technology, even though they use PCs and the Internet more than ever before. A recent U.S. Commerce Department […]

The Internet has found its way home. Not only are more Americans using the Net than ever before, but record numbers are accessing it from their home computers. According to […]

The article explores Echoes of Mumbai's problems can be found in cities around the world. In Campania, the region surrounding Naples, the Italian ma4a has poured toxic waste into incinerators and on to land4lls and farmland, leading to increased cancer rates. In Addis Ababa, waste tumbled down the slopes of the Kosher rubbish mountain, killing more than waste pickers. Moscow's growing waste has turned a nearby dump into a ‘Mount Everest of garbage',.

A one-step method for the reduction of graphene oxide (GO) to reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is reported taking advantage of the electron-donor properties of an azido-terminated tetrathiafulvalene (TTF-N3). The resulting graphene/TTF-N3nanohybrid material is characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and by electrical and electrochemical means. The accessibility of the azide function to chemoselective modification by any alkyne-terminated partner molecule via Cu(I)-catalyzed “click” chemistry is demonstrated. In a proof of principle and motivated by the importance of glycan-modified materials, many alkynyl-terminated mannose units were grated onto graphene/TTF-N3. The TTF-mannose units could be released efficiently from the graphene matrix by chemical oxidation of TTF-mannose surface units to TTF2+-mannose, using Fe(ClO4)3or the electron-deficient tetracationic cyclophane cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) (CBPQT4+).

Reports on the decision of a federal court in Chicago, Illinois to shut down a Web site that sold fake domain names. Order issued by the U.S. District Court in response to a suit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Background of the case; Responsibility of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers.