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...everyday uses of digital photography in the future: "The increasing cyborgization of people in which cell phones, iPods, and laptops reach near-appendage state will see photography extended into an all-day strategy, including images that are made according to involuntary stimuli such as brain waves and blood pressure. The camera will also be circulating within our bodies and stationed in our homes, acting proactively to warn us of and possibly attempt to correct any problems (disease, fire, an accident), even on the molecular level...
...frighten them into delivering ransom more quickly. "We cannot live under this pressure," says one upper-middle-class Saltillo woman who has seen several family members kidnapped in recent years. "All the time we are looking over our shoulder, the car windows always up, ringing the children on the cell at all times, having special passwords and codes in case, God forbid, of 'trouble.' This is not a life." (See pictures of Mexico's drug wars...
...often hindering, science - particularly on climate change, as the President was seen as failing to act against greenhouse-gas emissions long after most U.S. scientists had concluded that global warming was indeed man-made. Many scientists were also dismayed by Bush's ban on funding for most embryonic stem cell research and his endorsement of intelligent design being taught in schools alongside evolution, despite the prevailing view among scientists that intelligent design is not a scientific theory, since it cannot produce testable hypotheses...
...suspect the people who, years ago, were working on quantum mechanics never had in mind that they would provide the BlackBerry, the cell phone, my iPod or what have you," said Norman Augustine, a former president and CEO of security firm Lockheed Martin, who attended Monday's meeting in Princeton. But today, he says, that research has paved the way for work in manufacturing, maintenance, marketing and sales - a clear sign that the benefits of basic science extend beyond the lab. "This is about jobs, and it's about jobs for everyone," Augustine said...
...More recently, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Gelowicz and a third man are alleged to have formed the core of a cell known as the Sauerland Group linked to the Islamic Jihad Union, an Uzbek terror organization with ties to al-Qaeda. The group is believed to have been focusing on striking at U.S. targets as well. German police say that they observed the men purchasing and storing highly concentrated peroxide, which Germany's federal prosecutor believes was for making car bombs. The police further allege that the men scoped out U.S. military facilities or clubs where they believed frequented by Americans...