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...there Medvedev has increased government military spending this year by nearly 26% to about $37 billion, and given military producers of strategic weapons like missile systems and aircraft an extra $1.9 billion in 2009. In late March, just days before flying to the G-20 summit in London, the President donned a military pilot's helmet and uniform at an air base near Moscow for a ride in the back of a Sukhoi-34 fighter bomber, one of Russia's most sophisticated and deadly pieces of hardware. Afterwards he told reporters that it was time to modernize the country...
...Russian weapons, political and economic ties will also grow, increasing Russia's global heft. "The West sees it as saber-rattling, but for Russia it is about retaking what it sees as its rightful position in the world," says Guy Anderson, editor of Jane's World Defence Industry in London...
...Githongo's sleuthing - when a hidden recording device starts playing back while he is still in the company of two top officials, he has to slip from the room coughing loudly - and the story of her own role in helping him when he is forced to flee Kenya for London are particularly satisfying...
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...take the great content that is in the Unofficial Guide and make it more easily usable, searchable, and accessible for students as opposed to focusing on student academic life,” Bick said. Bick and Yan came up with the idea for Rover one year ago while visiting London. “We were both doing research in Europe, and when we got together, we realized how useful it would be to have a guidebook on a cell phone instead of in paperback form,” Bick said. Bick and Yan, engineering and physics concentrators, respectively, used...