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<p>Wasn't the era of big government supposed to be over?</p> <p>"We know big government does not have all the answers. We know there's not a program for every problem. We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over."</p>

WILMINGTON, Del. -- A collaborative group of DuPont-led scientists have discovered an innovative way to advance electronics applications through the use of DNA that sorts carbon nanotubes. This research in the emerging field of nanotechnology appears in the current issue of the journal Science, which is published by the AAAS ? the world's largest general scientific organization. The research paper is titled "Structure-Based Carbon Nanotube Sorting by Sequence-Dependent DNA Assembly." Carbon nanotubes possess excellent electrical properties that make them potential building blocks in a broad range of nanotechnology-related electronic applications, including highly sensitive medical diagnostic devices and mini-transistors more than...

<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - DuPont Co. on Monday said it would reduce costs by $900 million, partly through job cuts, and aims to increase revenue by 6 percent as it grapples with high raw material prices and the impending sale of its key clothing and carpet fiber business.</p>

MOSCOW (AP) -- Tons of chemicals used for the production of plastics have leaked off the coast of a Russian island in the Bering Sea, local media reported Tuesday. A 20-metric-ton container of chemicals owned by Dupont washed up on Bering Island in late July. The container was one of three such containers that Dupont lost at sea in March, Interfax reported. In recent days the container of tetraethylene glycol has begun to leak. Interfax said the container was cracked when a powerful storm hurled it onto some rocks. However, Itar-Tass quoted marine inspection spokesman Sergei Donigevich as saying the...