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Cold War Not Over
Washington (UPI) May 24, 2006The Cold War is over. The Soviet empire has collapsed. The West has won. The countries of the former Eastern Bloc have nearly all turned to democracy and many have even joined NATO and the European Union. Nuclear weapons (at least some of them) have been dismantled. The world is a far safer place now. Or is it?
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US Navy Personnel In Afghanistan
Washington (UPI) May 24, 2006The U.S. Navy is increasingly deploying its personnel far from the ocean, in Afghanistan. Cmdr. Jim Hamblet, who previously commanded the Portsmouth, Va.-based Mobile Security Squadron 6, a unit that patrols Iraqi oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, is now in charge of an 82-member reconstruction team in Ghazni province. Attack May Spoil Kashmir Summit 
New Delhi (UPI) May 24, 2006With an umbrella of seperatist groups refusing to take part, the second roundtable conference to resolve the Kashmir dispute is unlikely to yield any concrete results, Indian political analysts said Tuesday. Pirates Plunder Russian Tanker 
Conakry, Guinea (UPI) May 24, 2006On May 21 six heavily armed pirates from two high-speed cutters boarded and robbed a Russian Primorye Sea Shipping Company tanker in the Atlantic Ocean, 34 miles off the coast of Guinea's Conakry port in West Africa. |
MIT Probe Rejects BMD Research Fraud Claim
Cambridge MA (UPI) May 24, 2006An internal MIT review has found university officials largely blameless for a three- to four-year delay in examining allegations of research fraud at Lincoln Laboratory, the Boston Globe reported Saturday. Saab Ericsson Space Delivers Modular Payload Adapters To Land Launch Rockets 
Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) May 22, 2006Saab Ericsson Space announced Monday it is delivering new modular payload adapters to Land Launch for its commercial Zenit launches in 2007 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Leicester SRC Collaborating With India On Astrosat 
Leicester, England (SPX) May 23, 2006England's University of Leicester Space Research Centre and ISRO are collaborating on an X-ray camera for Astrosat, India's first astronomy satellite. Technicians at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, have sent instrumentation to Leicester for integration into the camera. |
VIASPACE Developing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Humidity Measurement Instrument
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 22, 2006VIASPACE announced Monday it is developing a laser-based instrument to measure the humidity level in hydrogen fuel cells. Fuel cells using a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane are extremely sensitive to the moisture level of the membrane. Washington Ablaze In Wake Of NSA Phone Scandal 
Washington (UPI) May 24, 2006Disclosure that the National Security Agency has allegedly and covertly obtained the phone records of millions of American from AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon has created a political firestorm in Washington over privacy issues. Extremism On The Rise In Germany 
Berlin (UPI) May 24, 2006Germany's top security chief has pledged to fight extremism in the wake of a report released by the country's constitution protection agency that politically motivated crimes have surged in 2005. |
Nanotubes Offer A Faster Flowing Fluid
New York (UPI) May 22, 2006Surprisingly, gas and water flow far more rapidly through membranes that use carbon nanotubes as pores than through conventional membranes with pores 10 times or so wider, experts tell UPI's Nano World. New Law To Punish Animal Rights Terrorism 
Washington (UPI) May 24, 2006The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on proposed legislation aimed at outlawing what its proponents say is economic terrorism by animal rights activists. Trull told United Press International the bill was necessary to plug two loopholes in the existing law -- the use of so-called tertiary or third-party targeting; and the organization of campaigns of virtual harassment over the internet. Amnesty Condemns US On Human Rights 
London (UPI) May 24, 2006Human rights group Amnesty International Tuesday accused the United States of breaking international law in its treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and detention facilities elsewhere in the world. |
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