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JPSE's work could meet resistance, however. Three years ago, the Pentagon shut down its Office of Strategic Influence amid press reports that the unit, whose staff included psyops experts, was mulling a scheme to plant false news items with foreign journalists to sway opinion overseas. The allegations turned out to be unfounded. Senior Administration officials suspect they may have been leaked by military public-affairs officers jealous over turf. But Rumsfeld disbanded the organization anyway, complaining that the negative publicity compromised its effectiveness. The JPSE director insists that his group will not engage in deception. Says Treadwell...
...shelve plans to resume uranium-enrichment activities in exchange for a European pledge to present a detailed package of economic incentives after Iran's presidential election. Rafsanjani--who stepped up Iran's nuclear efforts in the '90s with the construction, assisted by the Russians, of the Bushehr power plant--says he supports the talks but warns the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany) against dragging them out. He told TIME that Iran will eventually restart work toward completing the nuclear-fuel cycle--insisting, as the Iranians long have, that the intent is to produce energy for civilian...
Leaves, tendrils and roots inspire American glass artist Dale Chihuly, so it makes sense that his work would be exhibited at London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew . Kew Gardens boasts one of the world's largest plant collections, and is also famous for its groundbreaking greenhouses. "Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew" runs until Jan. 15, 2006, so visitors can see the huge works embedded in summer's thick foliage, glowing in an autumnal nest of bare twigs or dusted with winter snow. Chihuly has shown in gardens before, but never in Europe. Some pieces are indoors...
...favorites performed by the Bonxies, perhaps the only rock band powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The electricity that amplified their guitars and keyboard came from a hybrid wind-into-hydrogen system that is part of the world's first community-owned hydrogen production plant, built on this island of 700 inhabitants. "Despite all the hype around the hydrogen economy, there appeared to be very little to show for it in practice," says Sandy Macaulay, project manager for PURE (Promoting Unst Renewable Energy) and Bonxies lead guitarist. Two 15-kW wind turbines provide cheap and clean electricity to the island...
...show his energy bill is about more than drilling for oil in Alaska, President Bush visited a plant in Virginia that turns soybeans into a clean-burning diesel fuel-which the President hopes will one day be used to power oil-drilling machines in Alaska." -TINA FEY, on Saturday Night Live...