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...assistant director in charge of the intelligence division. Some recent examples: a Northrop engineer pleaded guilty in March to attempting to transmit Stealth technology to the Soviets for $55,000; the husband of a worker at a Silicon Valley defense firm used his wife's access to sell high-tech documents on ballistic-missile research to Polish intelligence for some $250,000; and in a trial that began last Friday in Los Angeles, Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov, two Soviet émigrés, are accused of attempting to buy secrets from Richard Miller, an FBI agent who was allegedly tempted...
...first ever nose-over-tail spin, so the tiled underbelly can be photographed by the International Space Station and checked for problems. After docking with the station, her team will conduct experimental repairs on tile samples during space walks, using a caulk gun to fill gouges with high-tech goo and sponge brushes to add heat-resistant coating. Collins sees the mission as an important step in getting the U.S. space program back on track--and headed toward manned trips to the moon and Mars. "We've got to constantly remind the generation that follows about the lessons...
Consider it a sign of the times that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao chose to begin his trip to India last Saturday with a visit to the high-tech haven of Bangalore before traveling to New Delhi to talk politics. High-tech and business, naturally enough, are at the top of the agenda for this encounter between leaders of the world's emerging economic superpowers. Indians hope their Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can agree with Wen on ways to boost trade between the two countries and can reduce competition with China over access to the energy resources both nations need...
...eyes of Indian businessmen, the biggest difference between the two countries is China's modern infrastructure?basic commercial necessities such as roads, airports and electricity powerplants. When an Indian tech executive returns from China, "he's so stunned by what he's seen that he usually can't talk for the first two weeks," says Rajesh Rao, the CEO of Dhruva Interactive, a Bangalore-based electronic-game development company. Businessmen like Rao worry that the Chinese are planning for the next 10 years in Shanghai, whereas Bangalore?whose roads are filled with potholes, and whose traffic is a mess...
...envy and fear seems most intense in the one place where it has the least reason to exist: Bangalore. India's software companies and call centers, after all, have a huge head start on China. Yet last week, Azim Premji, the chairman of Wipro, one of India's biggest tech companies, warned that the Chinese could start to close this gap in the outsourcing sector once they have mastered English...