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Santa Barbara Sees Rash of Copper Theft

According to Ron Beltran of Santa Barbara Iron & Metal, the current copper market is the highest it’s been in decades (just below its peak only a few years ago), and the metal is currently going for $3 per pound.

Trader Joe’s Goes Sustainable Seafood

Trader Joe’s grocery stores, responding not only to consistent pressure from Greenpeace activists but also customer buying trends, announced on 3/23 that it will purchase all of its seafood—frozen, fresh, and canned—from sustainable sources by 12/31/12.

Major Quantum Mechanics Breakthrough at UCSB

UCSB researchers John Mantis, Andrew Cleland, and Aaron O’Connell last week demonstrated that the theory of quantum mechanics, the set of scientific principles that describes the behavior of energy and matter on an atomic level, is applicable to the mechanical motion of macroscopic objects.

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