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Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio)

Michael Vazquez | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Tori Amos, Ema, Bitch Vig, Nirvana, Titus Andronicus, Nevermind. Dave Grohl, Lounge Act, Geffen, Territorial Pissings, The Vaselines, Courtney Love, Stay Away, Drain You, Surfer Blood, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Muse, Midnight Juggernauts, Lithium, Curt Cobain, Nameless" Sub Pop, Endless, Olympia, Patti Smith, Michael Vazquez, On a Plain" "Something in the Way, Kris Vovoselic, Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band, Jeff the Brotherhood, Meat Puppets, Michael Azzerad, Steve Albini, Chad Channing, Polly, Telekinesis, Amanda Palmer, AJ Schnack, Foxy Shazam, Smells Like Teen Spirit", Come as You Are" "Breed, "In Bloom, Entertainment News
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A Chemist Explains Why Gold Prices Have Been Soaring

NPR | Jacob Goldstein and David Kestenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sanat Kumar, Gold, Price of Gold, Lithium, Chemistry, Periodic Table, Einsteinium, Osmium, Business News

The periodic table lists 118 different chemical elements. And yet, for thousands of years, humans have really, really liked one of them in particular...

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PHOTOS: Black Opals, Painite, Lithium and 6 More Of The Most Valuable Minerals In The World

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Conflict Minerals, Conflict Stones, Conflict Diamonds, Most Expensive Minerals, Priciest Minerals, Most Expensive Stones, Minerals, Stones, Painite, Coltan, Slidepollajax, Lithium-Ion Battery, Blue Garnet, Blood Diamonds, Lithium, Jadeite, Gold, Jewelry, Diamonds, Ruby, Opals, Black Opal, Jewelry Stones, Green News

From rubies to painite, coltan to diamonds, nature produces incredible minerals. Whether they are made into dazzling baubles or used in rechargeable b...

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Con Games: If I Only Had A Brain At Aspen Ideas Fest

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, Sustainability, Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, Calaway, Lithium, Denver News
Michael Conniff

(ASPEN, COLORADO) Somebody, somewhere and some time, came up with the idea of The Internet, and then somebody else--Sir Tim to you--came up with the i...

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Endgame in Afghanistan

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Minerals, Lithium, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

The goal in Afghanistan has never been to win. There was never anything to win in the first place. The objective has been, from the start, acquisition of that nation's resources.

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Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggarman, Thief

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Niger Delta, Mineral Deposits, Lithium, Royal Dutch Shell, Afghanistan, Oil, Nigeria, Exxon Valdez, World News
Nick Mills

When the multi-nationals barge into Afghanistan with their massive earth-moving equipment and begin to scrape the wealth out of the stony Afghan mountains, expect the worst.

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Afghanistan: It Actually Gets Worse

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Michael Wolff, Afghanistan Minerals, Lithium, Afghanistan, World News
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Karzai's game is obviously changed. Where before he was a two-bit drug-lord middleman, the US some months ago informs him he's potentially one of the richest men in the world.

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Does the $1 Trillion Key to Winning the Afghan War Lie Under the Sand?

Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Hamid Karzai, Usaid, Commodities, Lithium, Afghanistan, Nato, Central Command, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Aghan Poppy Crop, Taliban, World News
Sam Sedaei

A small group of Pentagon and USAID officials and American geologists may have found the biggest single solution to permanently transforming Afghanistan's economy and winning the struggle against Taliban.

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China in Afghanistan

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Lithium, Mineral, Cartoon, Chins, Politics News
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Fresh Talking Point: Poor Afghanistan, They're Rich!

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minerals, Resources, Anti-War, Coin, Lithium, Resource Curse, Propaganda, Andrew Exum, Spencer Ackerman, Rethink Afghanistan, Think-Tank, Copper, Counter-Insurgency, New York Times, Afghanistan, Imperialism, Politics News
Josh Mull

The Afghan minerals report isn't some everyday propaganda trying pitifully to sell a trillion dollar debt-war to a nation of unemployed. This is a very specific talking point explicitly targeting the foreign policy community

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Experts: Lithium Doesn't Slow Lou Gehrig's Disease

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Lou Gehrig's, U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Lithium, Riluzole, Health, ALS Association, ALS Society of Canada, Healthy Living News

LONDON — Lithium doesn't help patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, contrary to previous study results, new research says. Results from a...

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Beyond Fluoride: Pharmaceuticals, Drinking Water and the Public Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rights, Law, Philosophy, Lithium, Green, Violence, Suicide, Prozac, Drugs, Green Living, Peter Kramer, Dentistry, Texas, Politics, Pharmaceutical Industry, Human Rights, Health, Water, Ethics, Environment, Utilitarianism, Japan, Tobacco, Libertarianism, Bioethics, Medicine, Michigan, Healthcare, Cocaine, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.

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Multinationals Going Shopping For Lithium Below Bolivia's Salt Desert

The Guardian | Rory Carroll and Andres Schipani in Salar De Uyuni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lithium, Bolivia, Lithium Mining, Resource Conflict, Green News

Stand in the middle of Salar de Uyuni, the world's greatest salt desert, and the first word that springs to mind is ­nothing. As far as the eye can s...

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Bolivia's Lithium Could Transform Economy In Greener World (VIDEO)

Worldfocus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, Latin America, Lithium, Foreign Affairs, Bolivian Lithium, Bolivia, Lithium Batteries, Advocacy, Video, World News

Bolivia controls nearly half of the world's reserves of lithium, a metal crucial for electric cars and other alternative energy technologies. But w...

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A New Day in South America

Eyck Freymann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South America, Nationalize, Colonialism, Hugo Chavez, Eyck Freymann, Lithium, Economy, Brazil, Evo Morales, Lula, Socialism, World News
Eyck Freymann

Evo Morales' charisma and resonant populist message have revolutionary potential throughout the South American continent. The question is only whether he will be thwarted by foreign governments and corporations.

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More Natural Resource Conflicts To Come (AUDIO)

WorldFocus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Drc, Lithium, Coltan, Resource Conflict, Evo Morales, Green Politics, Electronics, Congo, Video, Green News

Competition for natural resoures often lies at the heart of human conflict, from oil and water in the Middle East to contested coltan in the Democ...

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In Bolivia, Lithium Is A Tightly Controlled Commodity

Nytimes.com | SIMON ROMERO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia Indian Rights, Bolivia Lithium, Latin America, Lithium, Morales, Evo Morales, Bolivia, Bolivia Resources, World News

UYUNI, Bolivia -- In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeki...

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