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...explains that plasma cells are essential for generating electricity; surface coatings shield cars and houses from rust; and the media storage materials made from the shrinking of hydrogen can be used in computer chips...
Regardless of whether such a pay increase is justifiable or not, supplying adequate information to the public about any increase--especially one as large as this one--is standard procedure. The kind of shameful semantic obfuscation employed by Healy and those six other council members who voted to shield this matter from an open hearing should be met with nothing less than public outrage...
...system with cheap decoys. They note that it will do nothing to keep terrorists from smuggling a weapon into the U.S. Clinton has said he will decide by fall whether or not to build such a system, based on the threat, the cost and effectiveness of such a shield and finally the system's impact on arms control...
...political third criterion makes the technical problems of the shield pale. When Clinton visits Moscow on June 4 for his first summit with President-elect Vladimir Putin, he wants to make headway on an accord both to slash U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons to between 1,500 and 2,000 and to amend the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 to allow the U.S. to begin building a national missile defense. Instead he may be staring at the collapse of practically every major arms-control treaty...
...this point Putin wants no part of any tinkering with the ABM treaty, fearing that it would open the door to a larger U.S. shield than Clinton says he wants to deploy, which Moscow cannot afford to match and which would threaten its nuclear deterrence. He has warned Clinton that Russia will abandon all arms-control treaties if the U.S. builds a national missile defense...