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...technology also has national-security implications. At a Neuroethics Society-- sponsored symposium at Tufts University last September, ethicists and policymakers debated the potential benefits and threats to individual liberty of brain imaging and stimulation during intelligence gathering, which may be just around the corner. Cephos Corp., a brain-imaging firm based in Pepperell, Mass., hopes to have a lie-detection scan with 90% accuracy ready for use by late 2007, according to CEO Steven Laken, who says the U.S. intelligence community is watching closely. "If someone says, 'I know where bin Laden is,'" Laken asserts, "the U.S. government could hire...
...think there is a growing group in Thailand that believes business here should belong to Thais, not foreigners," says Sukhbir Khanijoh, senior analyst at Kasikorn Securities in Bangkok. That sentiment was stoked by Thaksin's controversial $1.9 billion sale last year of his family stake in telecom firm Shin Corp. to Singapore's Temasek Holdings-a deal perceived domestically as delivering a key national industry into foreign hands. The tax-free sale came courtesy of the loopholes in the country's Foreign Business Act that the junta government is now eliminating. The changes aim to stop foreign investors using local...
...Another thing an extra 21,500 American troops are not going to do is stop Iranian meddling. I have little doubt the Administration is telling the truth when it says that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp is arming and training Iraqis to kill Americans. The IRGC has been killing Americans for almost three decades. It has been operating freely in Iraq since the first Gulf War in 1990. And that's the problem - the IRGC is now so deeply woven into the Iraqi fabric that there's nothing we can do about it - short of invading Iran...
...environment." The pay isn't mentioned, but L-3 recently offered interpreters more than $175,000 annually to work in Iraq. Linguists usually don't carry weapons and are often called on to participate in raids and other combat-related tasks. Casualty reports show that L-3's Titan Corp., the major contractor supplying interpreters to the U.S. military, had 216 employees killed in Iraq--nearly 100 more fatalities than the entire British army stationed there...
...ominous as this sounds for Detroit, the flipside is that China represents one of the most promising markets for its products. General Motors' market share in China grew to 12.2% through the first nine months of 2006. GM's main Chinese joint-venture partner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., produces Buicks, Chevrolets, even luxury Cadillac CTS sedans, and in 2006 GM's Chinese sales surged 32% to 876,000 cars and trucks, helping fuel profits in GM's Asia-Pacific region. GM expects sales in China to top 1 million units this year - making it one of the few fast-growing...