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X Prize Hints At Space Race - Space.com A media alert was issued today by the X Prize Foundation of St. Louis, Missouri noting that “several key announcements” are to be made July 27. The $10 million Ansari X Prize cash award will be turned over to the first team that privately finances, builds and launches a three-person spaceship that scoots up to 62.5 miles (100 kilometers) altitude, returns safely to Earth, repeating the feat with the same ship within two weeks. |
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Analysis: A New Era Of Defense For Japan - SpaceDaily In the aftermath of World War II, Japan pledged to forever renounce war, writing into the Constitution a prohibition against maintaining any military forces or other war-making potential. In the post-9/ll era, however, members of the Japanese Parliament now say that an amendment allowing the formation of armed forces is both critical and inevitable. During the Cold War, Japan armed itself with the Self-Defense Forces, which it argued were admissible under the constitution, and which international law establishes as a guaranteed right of any nation. |
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Cool Fuel Cells Could Revolutionize Earth's Energy Resources - SpaceDaily Imagine a power source so small, yet so efficient, that it could make cumbersome power plants virtually obsolete while lowering your electric bill. A breakthrough in thin film solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is currently being refined in labs at the University of Houston, making that dream a reality. Putting this into perspective, the size equivalent of four sugar cubes would produce 80 watts – more than enough to operate a laptop computer, eliminating clunky batteries and giving you hours more juice in your laptop. Approximately two cans' worth of soda would produce more than five kilowatts. |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
8/3/2004: Cancer Drug Could Help Alzheimer's -
ABC
Biosciences:
8/3/2004: Researchers Study Mutated Gene in Collies -
ABC
8/3/2004: British Project Protects Endangered DNA -
ABC
8/3/2004: 'Frozen Ark' to save animal DNA -
BBC
8/3/2004: Abortion
fight: Why pro-choice campaigners fear a Bush victory -
BBC
8/3/2004: Stem cells stroke therapy hope -
BBC
8/3/2004: Chimps can't help yawning either - MSNBC
8/3/2004: Collie bloodlines turn up surprising relatives - MSNBC
Climate, Environment:
8/3/2004: Help save our seas, divers urged -
BBC
8/3/2004: Annual
floods: But why are they so bad this year in Bangladesh? -
BBC
Computers:
Devices
Communications
8/3/2004: Calling
time: Battle over cheap phone calls over the net hots up -
BBC
8/3/2004: Net calls to take on landlines -
BBC
8/3/2004: Mobile roaming rates are 'unfair' -
BBC
8/3/2004: Motorola unveils a Wi-Fi phone - C/Net
8/3/2004: Apple strikes cell phone music deal - C/Net
Technology
8/3/2004: Samsung unveils HDTV System-on-Chip - El.
Engr. Times
PC's
8/3/2004: Review: Dell 1600n Multifunction Laser Printer -
ABC
8/3/2004: Seagate ups drive warranties to five years - Business
Week
8/3/2004: Simpler solutions in software debugging - CNN
8/3/2004: IBM gets nod to build supercomputer - CNN
8/3/2004: Navy launches fastest supercomputer - El.
Engr. Times
Internet
8/3/2004: Virus targeting Google subsiding -
BBC
8/3/2004: Children 'able to gamble on net' -
BBC
8/3/2004: MyDoom variant slams mailboxes, search engines - Business
Week
8/3/2004: Embracing Net neutrality - C/Net
8/3/2004: Google News faces Microsoft rival - C/Net
8/3/2004: Dating site weeds out philanderers - CNN
Miscellaneous
8/3/2004: Apple and Motorola in music deal -
BBC
8/3/2004: Go
Digital: Towards a multi-lingual net and Chile's slum dwellers try out mobile phones -
BBC
8/3/2004: Microsoft releases major Office update - Business
Week
8/3/2004: Microsoft's EU court date set for September - C/Net
Energy:
8/3/2004: Cool Fuel Cells Could Revolutionize Earth's Energy Resources - SpaceDaily
Health:
Cardiovascular
8/3/2004: New Cholesterol Drug May Make Splash -
ABC
8/3/2004: Stem cells stroke therapy hope -
BBC
Cancer
8/3/2004: Can Diabetes Lead to Colorectal
Cancer? -
ABC
8/3/2004: New Cancer Drug Raises Questions, Hopes -
ABC
8/3/2004: Medicare Cut for Cancer Drugs Proposed -
ABC
8/3/2004: Poor 'in dark' over breast cancer -
BBC
Infectious
8/3/2004: Malaria Experts Abuzz on Global Warming Fears -
ABC
8/3/2004: Sex infections continue to rise -
BBC
8/3/2004: West Nile virus cases in Ireland -
BBC
Non-Infectious
8/3/2004: Video: Approaches to Treating Type 2 Diabetes -
ABC
8/3/2004: A Wireless Implant for Diabetics -
ABC
Miscellaneous
8/3/2004: Predicting Pain -
ABC
8/3/2004: Snack Attack -
ABC
8/3/2004: More Americans Are Getting Osteoporosis -
ABC
8/3/2004: Study Aims to Sort Out Alcohol Usage -
ABC
8/3/2004: STD Rates Continue to Rise in Britain -
ABC
8/3/2004: What Are the New Psoriasis
Treatments? -
ABC
8/3/2004: Deadly hernia corrected in womb -
BBC
8/3/2004: Poor nutrition in children's meals -
BBC
8/3/2004: French
lessons: How people in France manage to stay slim even with a rich diet -
BBC
8/3/2004: Follow the
sun: We love it, but we fear it - why the British are ruled by the sun -
BBC
8/3/2004: 'Mercy killing' murder charge -
BBC
History, Anthropology:
Miscellaneous:
8/3/2004: Analysis: A New Era Of Defense For Japan - SpaceDaily
8/3/2004: Pet Problems -
ABC
8/3/2004: Tips for Finding the Right Pup -
ABC
8/3/2004: Study: Cancer Risk Low From WTC Chemicals -
ABC
8/3/2004: Underage
gambling: Schoolgirl investigator exposes how easy it is for teens to bet online -
BBC
8/3/2004: Google's
IPO: Asking Too Much? - Business
Week
8/3/2004: Ancient Olympics had its own scandals - MSNBC
8/3/2004: How We Vote - MSNBC
Neurosciences:
8/3/2004: Early
Clues? -
ABC
8/3/2004: Why women may be able to see more subtle shades of red -
BBC
8/3/2004: Tilt test spots early Asperger's -
BBC
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Technology:
8/3/2004: ATMs 'to greet you by name' -
BBC
8/3/2004: Olivier resurrected for film role -
BBC
8/3/2004: An automobile with feelings
- NY
Times
8/3/2004: Bullets going the way of gas — unleaded - MSNBC
8/3/2004: The Big Idea - MSNBC