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...intelligence panel's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which released an unclassified summary of its report last week, found that the NSA is "unable to identify" how it spends the money it gets from Congress each year "to any level of detail." A number of its projects duplicate one another, the report said. And while the NSA had listened in on "large volumes of phone calls from the part of the world [where] al-Qaeda was located," says Representative Saxby Chambliss, who chairs the terrorism subcommittee, "the problem was, they didn't focus on al-Qaeda," so that those...
...working to cut production costs for biomedical systems, flat-panel displays and silicon wafers. For Philips, the challenge is to put organic light-emitting diodes on plastic, so that flat-panel displays can be used for new applications such as reusable paper-thin electronic newspapers. "No one has yet come up with a way to do this in high volume at low cost, but for Ron this is an invitation to the party, because that is what he does," says Dave Hadani, the Hong Kong-based manager of Philips' emerging display-technologies business...
...system--O.K., an ergonomic book bag--which helps redistribute the weight of all those texts. It has wide, padded straps, "air pods" that look like bubble wrap--to protect the lumbar region--and a padded waist belt that shifts weight from the spine to the hips. A molded plastic panel inside the pack supports the spine...
...brothers had always been better at figures and letters, Pervez would prove himself on the playing fields. Nasrullah Khan, a schoolmate who now heads his alma mater's botany department, remembers Musharraf entering a bodybuilding competition in his freshman year in which students struck poses before a panel of teachers in the gymnasium. Gola's baby fat had melted away; he took third place...
...necessarily. An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week reviewed new safety data on saline implants, which were approved by the FDA only two years ago. (Silicone-gel implants were never formally approved and are now available only in medical studies.) The review is timely. More than 200,000 women went under the knife last year to acquire bigger breasts. That's five times the number a decade ago. And 80,000 had implants after mastectomies. What could be worrisome about a sac of salt water? Plenty, according to the FDA hearings: more than...