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iPhone, Chocolate Style

USBfever launched a new funny iPhone silicone case that makes it look like a chocolate bar. According to the product page, the novelties not only look like chocolate, but are also packed like chocolate bars on a supermarket shelf. The case costs 27 USD.

Reminder: Sprint Palm Treo 800w and Verizon LG Chocolate 3 Available Now

Both Palm's Treo 800w (for Sprint) and LG's Chocolate 3 (for Verizon) are on sale right now, a day earlier than their original release dates. The Treo 800w is $250 with a two-year contract and rebate, or $600 without. Chocolate 3 is $129.99 w/ contract. [Sprint, Verizon]

Chocolate museum offers sweet discovery of confectionery past

A selection of free chocolates that greet visitors as they enter the Chocolate Museum in St.Stephen, N.B. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kevin Bissett

Scientists analyze chocolate genome

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- U.S. government scientists are launching a five-year project aimed at safeguarding the world's chocolate supply by dissecting the genome of the cocoa bean.

School's chocolate boost

Dr Andrew Sheppard says there have been no exclusions since he started rewarding pupils with chocolate for good behaviour.

Mars maps gene for perfect chocolate

LOS ANGELES: Coming soon to a confectioner near you: perfect chocolate. Sweets manufacturer Mars is set to invest millions of dollars in an effort to decode the cocoa genome, part of a five-year project to be undertaken with the US Department of Agriculture and the computer company IBM.

Air hostess picks up chocolate bar, wins space trip

PARIS (Reuters) - A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.

Air hostess picks up chocolate bar, wins space trip

PARIS (Reuters) - A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.

Air hostess picks up chocolate bar and wins space trip

PARIS (Reuters) - A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.

Unlocking cocoa genome to relieve supply threats for chocolate makers?

Quality and supplies for the key ingredient in chocolate - cocoa - may gain from a new project that sees Mars link up with the US goverment and IBM to unlock the cocoa genome.

Scientists to unravel the genetic code of chocolate

Scientists are to decode the genetic structure of the cocoa tree in a bid to understand the mysteries of the world's finest chocolate.

Cocoa Genome To Be Sequenced: May Benefit Millions Of Farmers, Help Sustain World's Chocolate Supply

The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Mars, Incorporated, and IBM intend to apply their scientific resources to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome. Sequencing the cocoa genome is a significant scientific step that may allow more directed breeding of cocoa plants and perhaps even enhance the quality of cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate.

Chocolate digestive tops among British

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Chocolate Case Makes the iPhone (Almost) Eatable

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Chocolate king and arts parton

ROBERT Raynor, who rose from humble immigrant stock to become a hugely successful businessman and generous philanthropist to many causes, especially the National Gallery of Victoria and a range of Jewish charities, has died at Cabrini Hospital in Malvern. He was 101.

Pittsburgh-area chocolate maker closing stores to focus on Web

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Mars and IBM to crack chocolate code

Mars, the sweets manufacturer, is toinvest more than $US10million ($10.5million) in an effort to decode the cocoa genome, part of a five-year project to be undertaken with the US Department of Agriculture and IBM.

IBM To Help Sequence the Chocolate Genome

Dekortage writes "The New York Times reports this morning that IBM will work with Mars — the candy company who makes M&Ms and Snickers, among other things — on a five year project to sequence the cocoa genome. According to Howard-Yana Shapiro, global director of plant science at Mars, the goal is to 'discover the genetic building blocks of traits like disease and pest resistance, drought tolerance and perhaps flavor.' Additionally, the project's results will be available for free from the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture."

A Genetic Quest for Better Chocolate

(UPDATED 6/26/08 10:33 a.m.| Corrected reference to cocoa trees’ lack of presence in the United States. They do grow in Hawaii.)

Sequencing The Cacao Genome To Safeguard Chocolate

During the past 15 years, the global cocoa industry has confronted a trio of devastating fungal diseases that cost growers an estimated $700 million in losses annually. Now scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Subtropical Horticultural Research Station (SHRS) in Miami, Fla., are developing productive cacao (Theobroma cacao) trees resistant to these diseases: witches' broom, frosty pod and black pod.

Sequencing the cacao genome to safeguard chocolate

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IBM worms its way into African economy... with chocolate

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NY Lab Helps in Sequencing the Cacao Genome to Safeguard Chocolate

During the past 15 years, the global cocoa industry has confronted a trio of devastating fungal diseases that cost growers an estimated $700 million in losses annually. Now scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Subtropical Horticultural Research Station (SHRS) in Miami, Fla., are developing productive cacao (Theobroma cacao) trees resistant to these diseases: witches' broom, frosty pod and black pod.

Mars teams up with IBM to map cocoa genome

US chocolate and sweets giant Mars is teaming up with IBM to study and map the cocoa genome in a move which could enhance the production of stronger plants, the companies said Thursday.

Sweet deal: Companies and U.S. team up to map cocoa DNA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chocolate maker Mars Inc, computer giant IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday they would team up to map the DNA of the cocoa tree to try to sweeten the crop's $5 billion market.


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