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While relying almost solely on “sigint” was an effective Cold War-era strategy designed to spy on a somewhat predictable, hierarchical center of power like the Soviet Union, this strategy is much less effective at fighting off a decentralized group of tech-savvy terrorists. While signals intelligence did help the U.S. find Qusay and Uday Hussein during the early days of the second Iraq war, the results have been less encouraging in the hunt for Al Qaeda leaders...
...China market will be too strong to resist and they will find specious justifications for their sales. (The most specious was offered by the French Defense Minister, who seems to have convinced herself that European exports will stop China's development of its own capability in high-tech systems.) Though the E.U. is working on a code of conduct that will?it is said?prevent the export of anything really nasty, there's little point in lifting the ban unless everyone expects that trade between the E.U. and China will thereby grow...
...study, brain size peaks around age 111/2. For the boys, the peak comes three years later. "For kids, that's a long time," Giedd says. His research shows that most parts of the brain mature faster in girls. But in a 1999 study of 508 boys and girls, Virginia Tech researcher Harriet Hanlon found that some areas mature faster in boys. Specifically, some of the regions involved in mechanical reasoning, visual targeting and spatial reasoning appeared to mature four to eight years earlier in boys. The parts that handle verbal fluency, handwriting and recognizing familiar faces matured several years earlier...
...Iceland and Sweden, girls consistently outperform boys in math and physics (see box). In Sweden the gap is widest in the remote regions in the north. That may be because women want to move to the big cities farther south, where they would need to compete in high-tech economies, while men are focused on local hunting, fishing and forestry opportunities, says Niels Egelund, a professor of educational psychology at the Danish University of Education. The phenomenon even has a name, the Jokkmokk effect, a reference to an isolated town in Swedish Lapland...
...anonymously fund all 10 of them--then moved in with his parents to keep the site and himself fiscally afloat. Since then, residents of 49 states (South Dakota is the holdout) and 10 foreign countries have donated $3 million to fund 6,000 projects. The charity garnered a Tech Museum laureate for innovations in e-procurement and has won over corporate sponsors such as Yahoo, Lehman Bros. and Bank of America...