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US forces chief in Japan says China's military intent unclear
Tokyo (AFP) April 14, 2008The United States' top military commander in Japan on Monday called for greater military transparency from China, saying the reasons for its rising defence spending remained unclear. Transparency "is extremely important in terms of building trust, building confidence and preventing miscalculation and misunderstanding," said Commander Edward Rice Jr., who assumed the top post in February. ... more Outside View: Iran's nuclear bubbles 
Moscow (UPI) April 14, 2008It seems Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad simply cannot help but shock the world with his revelations about the sensational achievements of Iranian nuclear physicists. In February 2006 he announced they coped with thermonuclear reactions. This time he spoke about the most advanced Iranian technologies of the budding Iranian nuclear-enrichment industry. He was referring to the ... more Northrop Grumman Team Submits Bid For Army Integrated Air And Missile Defense Battle Command System Competition 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Northrop Grumman this week submitted its bid for the prime role in the U.S. Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) competition. Due to be awarded in August 2008, the contract is considered the first step towards an integrated air and missile defense capability for the Army, and a joint capability for the nation. Under IBCS, the winning team will establish ... more No back-channel talks on Iran: US 
Washington, Texas (AFP) April 14, 2008The United States on Monday denied a British press report of back-channel talks between Washington and Iran on Tehran's controversial nuclear program. In London, The Independent newspaper reported Monday that a group of former US diplomats and foreign policy experts had been holding talks for the past five years with Iranian academics and policy advisers, in hopes of reaching a breakthrough ... more Israel says will connect to US missile early warning system 
Jerusalem (AFP) April 14, 2008The United States has agreed to connect Israel to its ballistic missile early warning system to warn of any missile attack from archfoe Iran, a senior Israeli defence official said on Monday. "Israel asked the US to connect to its ballistic missile early warning system as part of its efforts to defend itself from missile attacks, first of all from Iran," the official told AFP on condition of ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2008Japan on Monday reassured Moscow that an anti-missile shield planned with the US military was no threat to Russia and was aimed only at North Korea. Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow that the missile shield was needed in response to communist North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes. "Concerning cooperation with the United ... more Commentary: 92 years to go 
Washington (UPI) April 14, 2008We are beginning to use words, phrases and assertions without any regard to their meaning. The predicate "Islamist extremism is the defining characteristic of the 21st century" ignores we are now in year eight of this century -- with 92 more years to go. No one can possibly know what will define our century over the next nine decades. What is now emerging in neurosciences at George ... more Blinded By The High-Tech Lights At The Miplex Shows Part One 
Washington (UPI) April 14, 2008High-tech military systems are vital, but very often policymakers and politicians are blind to the inevitable weak points or limitations in the programs they commission. The most obvious example is America's magnificent nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers. As we have documented in our series earlier this month, they give the United States capabilities of flexible force projection ... more Analysis: A change in the Middle East? 
Washington (UPI) April 14, 2008There are changes in the cards for the Middle East, predicts a Lebanese politician. Dory Chamoun, leader of the National Liberal Party, told this reporter that before there could be peace, there would be a new war between Israel and Syria; that Bashar al-Assad had a hand in former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri's assassination; and that Hezbollah's power in Lebanon -- already reduced to ... more Taiwan-China meet started to 'thaw the ice': president-elect 
Taipei (AFP) April 14, 2008Weekend talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Taiwan's vice president-elect have started to "thaw the ice" in ties between the rivals, the island's incoming president Ma Ying-jeou said Monday. The landmark meeting on Saturday between Hu and Taiwan's Vincent Siew on the sidelines of a regional forum in Hainan, southern China, "has started to thaw the ice across the strait," Ma told ... more |
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Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Verenium has announced that it has achieved a key development milestone with its demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Jennings, Louisiana with commencement of the transition to "startup" phase. With this phase of the project now effective, the site has been electronically energized and the turnover of individual systems to start-up and operating teams has begun so that the function ... more Indonesia overtakes Malaysia as top palm oil producer: minister 
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (AFP) April 14, 2008Indonesia likely overtook Malaysia as the world's top palm oil producer in 2007, due to dramatically increased area under plantation, Malaysia said Monday. "From preliminary figures in 2007 it looks like Indonesia has already overtaken us in terms of production," Plantation and Commodities Minister Peter Chin told reporters. Chin said Malaysia was still the world's top exporter but that ... more Groom Energy Solutions Delivers Hybrid Parking Garage Lighting Fixture 
Salem MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Groom Energy Solutions today announced the availability of its GES Hybrid parking garage lighting fixture, a patent-pending retrofit kit that reduces by 50 percent, the energy consumed by typical parking garage lighting fixtures. The unique design quickly retrofits into existing high intensity discharge based parking garage fixtures converting them to more energy efficient fluorescent-based lamp ... more Money Doesn't Grow On Trees, But Gasoline Might 
Amherst MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. Reporting in the cover article of the April 7, 2008 issue of Chemistry and Sustainability, Energy and Materials (ChemSusChem), chemical engineer and National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardee ... more Complete Analysis Of The Global Offshore Wind Energy Industry And Its Major Players 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Apr 15, 2008Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into useful forms, such as electricity, using wind turbines. In windmills, wind energy is directly used to crush grain or to pump water. At the end of 2007, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 94.1 gigawatts. Although wind currently produces just over 1% of worldwide electricity use, it accounts for approximately 19% of electricity ... more
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