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Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that a system with 250 land-based interceptors, backed by many congressional Republicans, would cost $60 billion--more than double the $25.6 billion the Pentagon projected for a 100-interceptor system. The U.S. space shield's satellites would detect the launch of an enemy missile and cue ground-based radars to find it. Data on its path would be downloaded into the interceptors before their launch from mainland Alaska bases, with updates radioed to them in flight. Four interceptors, fired two at a time, would be dedicated to each incoming warhead...
More importantly, the plan certifies the use of certain scientific tests to detect the presence of biotech improvements in foods. These tests would be used in food labeled biotech free, to ensure uniformity in quality. Those who are afraid of the new technology will have the option to eat unaltered food, and research with genetically altered food can continue until it is proved sufficiently safe. And even the most skeptical will no longer have to worry about being eaten alive by killer tomato catsup. Now that's food for thought...
...Being college students, we can detect trends in and understand the tech stocks better," Muzinich says. "We don't, for instance, get involved with semiconductors. We try not to get in over our heads...
...such as medleys of fungi and ferns, that survived and reproduced rapidly to fill the habitable spaces emptied of other life. As more time passed, a few "Lazarus species" reappeared in localities from which they had been wiped out, having been able to spread from isolated pockets difficult to detect. Then, very slowly, across 2 million to 5 million or more years, life as a whole evolved again to its full, original variety...
...though, administrators are quietly shifting their sights from metal detectors to "mental detectors." Commonly known as profilers, these programs aim to detect violence-prone kids before they act by comparing them to those who have already snapped. Investigators from Columbine and Jonesboro have tutored administrators across the U.S. on the telltale signs that in their cases went tragically undetected or unheeded. The FBI, which last fall circulated a 20-point "offender profile" culled from common characteristics of school shooters, will release a report on the topic next month. And the Secret Service, at work on its own study, is interviewing...