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Scientist are creating a new generation of "soft" machines that can change their shape and size, move in ever more agile ways and even split themselves into smaller robots.
CNN: Robotics discovers its soft side
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Warren Buffet, the unbelievably homespun billionaire and long-time Coca-Cola director and shareholder, has been a staunch critic of options accounting and called the soft drink maker's accounting change a "classy move, " adding that he would feel "far more comfortable" if other companies followed its lead.
FORBES: Coke Opts For More Honest Accounts
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We must accept that the conventional, kid-gloves approach to socially responsible investing -- divesting shares in "bad" companies that nevertheless continue to exist -- is too weak an instrument to force change and its well-meaning practitioners too soft to enter the fray when emotionally and politically charged battles need to be fought.
CNN: Freedom Group, a gunmaker ripe for an ethical takeover