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Paging Peter Sellers. Suddenly, it seems, a whole lot of people have learned to stop worrying and love the drone. With the same deadly precision they claim for their weapons of choice, defenders of drones—also known as unmanned aerial vehicles—have been gleefully shooting down the arguments of any who dare criticize their tactics. “The future of how you use these unmanned systems or remotely piloted systems is really unlimited,” contends one lieutenant general, speaking for them...
...Ruth and Maris. That summer’s hardball fireworks happened to coincide with a brief hiccup that served as nothing more than a semicolon in a decade-long, run-on sentence of previously unimaginable financial growth. As I was 10 years old, it would be a stretch to claim that I was aware of the market’s rise that summer (whatever interest I could afford to the news was gobbled up by the much more interesting Monica Lewinsky). But with hindsight, the boom of the 1990s seem perfectly captured by that record-shattering season...
...renovations, the Starbucks store located in the Garage unveiled its new assets Saturday—including a row of wooden booths, a larger space for customers waiting on line, and a brighter tenor. Remember those inutile velvet curtains and those circular tables that you could never seem to claim? All gone. (The Ventis are staying, though...
...favor of the continued use of coal. It is cheap, abundant, and domestically produced. Smokestack scrubbers remove most of the pollutants in coal before they can be emitted into the atmosphere. The federal government requires mining companies to restore exhausted mines to their former natural state. Electric utilities also claim that discoveries in coal gasification (the production of synthetic natural gas from coal) and carbon sequestration will dramatically reduce resultant greenhouse- gas emissions, rendering coal an ideal fuel for a post-cap-and-trade future...
...initial search of the hull turned up nothing suspicious, and now Russia's official explanation of what happened will probably become the final one - this was a hijacking thwarted by its navy without a shot being fired. But there are baffling details left unexplained, leading some experts to claim that the truth is much more sinister: the Arctic Sea, they say, was intercepted by Israel as it carried a secret cargo of weapons to the Middle East. (See pictures of dramatic pirate-hostage rescues...