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Now, a test-tube burger

NETHERLANDS: Scientists plan to create a test-tube burger made with mince grown from stem cells. The burger, made with beef mince grown from stem cells, is less than a year away from being produced, reports The Daily Telegraph.

The new product, if succesful with end users, could pave the way for eating meat without slaughtering animals. The world's meat consumption is expected to double by 2050.

Scientists believe that very soon livestock will fall short of the growing human population and there will not be enough to feed everyone. As a result, laboratory-grown beef, chicken and lamb could become normal, says the paper.

The paper learnt that the scientists are currently developing a burger which will be grown from 10,000 stem cells extracted from cattle, which are then left in the lab to multiply more than a billion times to produce muscle tissue similar to beef. The product is called in vitro meat.

Mark Post, professor of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who is behind the project, was quoted as saying: "I don't see any way you could rely on old-fashioned livestock in the coming decades. In vitro meat will be the only choice left.

"We are trying to prove to the world we can make a product out of this, and we need a courageous person who is willing to be the first to taste it."

Professor Post told Scientific American magazine that he thought the first test-tube burger could be made within 12 months.

Managers keep phones in biscuit tins

GERMANY: A German chemicals company said onh Monday its managers have begun keeping their mobile phones in biscuit tins during meetings in order to guard against industrial espionage.

"Experts have told us that mobile phones are being eavesdropped on more and more, even when they are switched off," Alexandra Boy, spokeswoman for Essen-based speciality chemicals maker Evonik, told AFP.

"The measure applies mostly when sensitive issues are being discussed, for the most part in research and development," she said, confirming a report in business weekly Wirtschaftswoche.

Biscuit tins have a so-called Farraday cage effect, she said, blocking out electromagnetic radiation and therefore preventing people from hacking into mobile phones, not only for calls but also to get hold of emails.

The firm, with 34,000 employees and sales of 13 billion euros (ê18.5 billion), is not alone in wanting to defend itself against what experts warn are increasingly sophisticated methods of industrial espionage.

This month the German government opened a new national centre in Bonn to coordinate efforts not only to protect firms from espionage but also state infrastructure from cyberattacks. 

Man poses as a soldier 'to get upgrade'

NEW YORK: A man was arrested after he donned an army uniform and posed as a soldier so that he would get bumped up to first class.

The incident occurred on a flight from the Dominican Republic to New York's John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport, the New York Post reports.

Rock Diaz, 22, of Long Island, has a history of pretending to be a military man to get VIP treatment, according to police - he once even talked his way into a jetliner's cockpit, where he was photographed sitting at the controls.

He was caught out when a sharp-eyed customs official at JFK asked him his rank - and he gave an answer that did not match the insignia on the uniform he was wearing.

But Diaz - in camouflage fatigues and sporting a military-style buzz cut - allegedly insisted that he was the real thing when questioned after getting off an American Airlines flight.

Although he was wearing a standard-issue army combat uniform and cap, he could not produce a military ID.

Diaz - who sources said never served in the military - also had a black POW patch on his sleeve, which an actual soldier would never wear in that spot, the sources said. His dog tags were comically engraved with the words, "USA Marines Corp."

He was charged with second-degree impersonation.

Man robbed of $385,000 in copycat muggings

ROMANIA: A Romanian claimed Monday he had been robbed of the equivalent of $85,000 in a copycat mugging weeks after thieves stole $300,000 from him, police said.

"The man said two vehicles blocked his car while he was driving back from the bank, where he had withdrawn 250,000 lei ($85,000)", Claudia Burada, spokeswoman of the local police, told AFP.

Four individuals broke a window and stole the money from his car, he claimed.

Injured by broken glass, the victim was taken to hospital.

On June 10, the same man had called the police saying his car had been stopped in traffic by four men wearing masks.
He alleged they threatened him with a gun, then broke a window and got away with $300,000.

He told the police he needed the cash in order to buy scrap iron.

Burada said the bank had confirmed both cash withdrawals.

She said police had some suspects but no arrests had been made.

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