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Boys In The Hood
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 28, 2008When first responders and security guards came to the DHS Science and Technology Directorate's "Tell Us What You Need" table, heading their list was an emergency escape hood worthy of James Bond: a "one size fits all" concealable hood weighing under a pound, folding to the dimensions of a DVD case, and donnable in ten seconds. Furthermore, the hood must be maintenance-free, filter nerve ... more US calls for fresh approach to nuclear sanctions 
Geneva (AFP) April 28, 2008The United States on Monday called for a fresh approach to sanctions for countries determined to develop nuclear weapons, saying extra incentives were needed to dissuade countries from pursuing nuclear energy technologies. US special representative Christopher Ford called on the world to wake up to the "challenge" of a fresh nuclear arms race triggered by Iran and North Korea, at a gathering ... more The Iranian Nuclear Deadlock Going Nowhere Fast Part One 
Moscow (UPI) April 28, 2008 The latest meeting in Shanghai of the six international mediators in the Iranian nuclear issue has been a fiasco, as is suggested by the meager news reports. The participating countries, the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany, again failed to find common ground. What happened? Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the Republican front-runner in the U.S. presidential ... more South Korea approves plan to buy 21 more fighter jets from Boeing 
Seoul (AFP) April 25, 2008South Korea will buy 21 fighter jets from Boeing by 2012, bringing to 61 the total number of its next-generation fighters, the defence ministry said Friday. A government panel on Friday approved a 2.3 trillion won (2.3 billion dollars) contract to buy F-15K fighter jets from Boeing, the Defence Acquisition Programme Administration (DAPA) of the defence ministry said. South Korea has ... more Scaneagle UAS Flies With Heavy Fuel In Iraq 
Bingen WA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Insitu announced it has flown Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) equipped ScanEagles in Iraq. This was the first demonstration of HFE technology in a real-world environment and was conducted in cooperation with the US Navy. The HFE equipped ScanEagles have flown more than 350 hours, including flying 12+ hour missions in both land and maritime scenarios. Insitu is pioneering the development of long ... more |
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Prague (AFP) April 28, 2008Next week's signing of a deal to install an American radar base in the Czech Republic as part of Washington's planned European missile defence shield has been postponed, officials said Monday. The Czech foreign ministry said there was no threat to the deal and that the signing had been delayed because US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was not available for the original dates of May 5 or ... more Pentagon suspends program for military 'media analysts' 
Washington (AFP) April 28, 2008The Pentagon has suspended a public affairs program that has come under fire for using retired military "media analysts" as surrogates to get out its messages on the Iraq war, a spokesman confirmed Monday. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the program was undergoing an internal review following criticism that the retired officers offered Pentagon talking points as their own during the ... more Northrop Grumman To Provide New STARLite Radar For US Army Unmanned Vehicle Application 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. Army Communication-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command to produce the new multi-function radar for the Extended Range/Multi-Purpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Radar program. Under the terms of the initial $42 million contract with the Command's Robotics and Unmanned Systems Program Management Office, Northrop Grumman will deliver 10 ... more How To Have A Nuclear War Without The Bomb Going Off 
Washington (UPI) April 28, 2008 When Yasser Arafat first addressed the U.N. General Assembly in November 1974, he told the world body he came bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand," stated the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, at that time still considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel. Today, the odds have increase ... more Congress Angry Over Syrian Intel Delays As Assad Denies Nuke Plans 
Washington (AFP) April 27, 2008Top US legislators questioned Sunday why the US only revealed this week that Syria had built a military-oriented nuclear facility, and asked why Washington had not shared its intelligence with the UN's nuclear watchdog. "I was surprised that they hadn't given the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," Senator Diane Feinstein, a member of the Senate Select Committee on ... more |
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Zibo, China (AFP) April 28, 2008Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. Ruling out terrorism, the official Xinhua news agency said preliminary investigations found human error was to blame, without elaborating. The first train was travelling to Qingdao -- the coastal city ... more White Is The New Black Gone Green...When It Comes To Roofs 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Summer's coming, and that means hot days - hot enough to have to turn on air conditioners. But what if we could lower that need - just a little bit? According to the United States Department of Energy, the average air-conditioned home releases two tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at energy is consumed - and as homeowners collectively lay out a total of $11 billion a year to cool those ... more US secretary concedes biofuels may spur food price rises 
Washington (AFP) April 28, 2008Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up world food prices, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday. "There has been apparently some effect, unintended consequence from the alternative fuels effort," Rice told a meeting in Washington when asked for the US government's view on skyrocketing food prices. "Although we believe ... more Oklahoma Set To Plant First-Ever 1,000 Acre Switchgrass Field 
Ardmore OK (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Oklahoma has secured land for the worlds largest stand of switchgrass devoted to cellulosic ethanol production. Acknowledging concerns over ethanol production impacting food prices, Oklahoma advances switchgrass, a different type of energy crop, which has higher energy output than corn and does not compete with human or animal food sources. The Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC) ... more PSE Announces Agreement With Farm Power 
Bellevue WA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Puget Sound Energy has announced that the company has reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Farm Power Northwest of Skagit County to develop a dairy digester facility to produce electric power from manure, a technology that holds the promise of both an environmentally friendly energy source and a benefit to local dairy farmers and the Skagit County economy. PSE, in conjunction ... more
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