Motor City: From Motown to no-hope town

Independent - Music and motor cars made Detroit’s name – but the crisis in the automotive industry has created an economic and social disaster area. How much more of Detroit, how many of the still-vibrant neighbourhoods close to the remaining car plants and supplier factories, will soon experience the struggles of Highland Park?

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World’s first transplant of a whole organ grown in lab

Telegraph - Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother of two, with one created from stem cells grown in a laboratory at Bristol University. Because the new windpipe was made from cells taken from Ms Castillo’s own body, using a process called “tissue engineering”, she has not needed powerful [...]

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Traffic levels fall for first time in decades

Independent - Traffic on Britain’s roads is decreasing significantly for the first time since the three-day week of the early 1970s, suggesting the car economy is heading for a crash, official figures revealed yesterday. In a sign that the country is already in recession, fewer car and lorry journeys on motorways, rural and [...]

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