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The next large-scale military or subversive attack on the United States, if and when it happens, may not involve airplanes or bombs or even intruders breaching American borders.
Instead, such an assault may be carried out in cyberspace by shadowy hackers half a world away. And Internet security experts believe that it could be just [...]

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Fisherman Terry Pizani turns his captain’s wheel with a mournful expression on his face. Far below, the fishing grounds off the Louisiana coast where the 63-year-old has made a living for the sake five decades have become an aquatic graveyard known as a "dead zone."
"You don’t meaning of nothing," he said. "Usually you see [...]

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It’s the stuff lawlessness movies are made of: Determined police officers shadowing their shady as he drives around town, watching and waiting for his next move, everlastingly careful not to lose him.
But now, investigators can track a potential bad guy without ever leaving their desks, thanks to the Global Positioning System, or GPS.
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John Yancey leans against his truck in a field case his home, his face contorted in anger and pain.
"Listen," he says.
The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air. Sleek and white, their long propeller blades exchange in formation, like some otherworldly sashay of spindly-armed aliens swaying across the land.
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LOS ANGELES (Fortune) — Pop quiz: name the breakout digital businesses that have been spawned by traditional media giants that aren’t simply online offshoots of existing brands. There is, let’s see, Time Warner’s TMZ, and, depending on how it goes, NBC and Fox’s Hulu.com.
Need more all together? You get the station: big media [...]

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Larry Horsley loves that he doesn’t buy much gas, even though he drives his ‘95 Chevy S-10 back and forth to being planned each day.
Horsley, a self-described do-it-yourselfer, simply plugs his truck into an electric wall outlet in his Douglasville, Georgia, garage and charges it overnight, instead of buying gasoline refined from mostly imported [...]

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NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout proper for potential landing sites for astronauts.
The moon craft is the first step in NASA’s program to send astronauts disregard to the moon and beyond.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was supposed to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in [...]

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Experts are growing increasingly concerned that the United States will sire to rely entirely upon Russia to take astronauts to and from the international space station for at least five years.
Observers say the situation is all the more worrying as after NASA announced a delay in the launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft.
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(Fortune Magazine) — Could faster chips elucidate into slower computers? That’s the sales-threatening prospect furrowing brows in every corner of the PC business, from industry titans such as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) to major centers of academe.
For decades the PC industry has juiced performance – and sales – with a [...]

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Randy Turner knows there’s a prodigious gap in age and technology between him and his adolescent students.
So when the 52-year-old arranged up a MySpace page and his students began asking to add him as a friend and sending him questions about assignments, he realized he was on to something.
"Just the very to be [...]

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