corn, Shalit, Nam Theun 2, Charlie Sheen, Moutaiko, LHC

newswise See through walls..
Ohio State University engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable, because its signal resembles random noise.
..components cost less than $100.
..The radar .can be tuned to penetrate solid walls ..
The radar is inherently .able to distinguish between many types of targets because of its ultra-wide-band
..He breathes, his heart beats, his body makes unintended motions."
These tiny motions could be used to locate disaster survivors who were pinned under rubble.. able to see objects that are nearby.
..might image tumors, blood clots, and foreign objects in the body. It could even measure bone density...

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commondreams Robert Kennedy cries foul
In heavily Democratic areas around Youngstown, where nearly 100 voters reported entering "Kerry" on the touch screen and watching "Bush" light up

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ethanol despite continuing doubts about whether the fuel provides a genuine energy saving,.. 39 new ethanol plants ..over .. 12 months, USA past Brazil as the world's largest ethanol producer.
..add 1.4 billion gallons a year, a 30% increase over current 4.6 bg/y..By 2008 8 bg/y
..But ADM..by far the biggest beneficiary of $2 billion subsidies..51-cent-a-gallon tax credit given to refiners and blenders that mix ethanol into their gasoline. ADM will earn $1.3 billion from ethanol in 2007 ..
..Last year corn 11 billion bushels ..second to 2004's record ..
.. ..Farmers subsidy $48 an acre not to raise crops
..the average processing plant ..net profit .. $5 a bushel ..buying for $2
.. that is before the ..tax credit..

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We holidayed 5.5km from this island, but our heavy clinker-built, seagull powered dinghy never made it there. [5Jul06 update: this was a google-singlet, but now gbruno makes a doublet. google rocks]
hint: lat=-38.8543787878, lon=175.942871292

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Having another passport in Zion doesnt help when Hamas grabs you..
Corporal Shalit, who also holds French citizenship,
The last Israeli soldier kidnapped was in October 1994, also by Hamas.
Nachshon Wachsman, who was also an American citizen

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WorldBank buys a Dam:
..Nam Theun 2.. ..130-foot-high .. the first major dam backed by the World Bank after a self-imposed moratorium in the mid-1990's.. Asian Development Bank..four years from now.. on a tributary of the Mekong..
6,000 people will be displaced on the Nakai Plateau..livelihoods of at least 100,000 more will be affected..
For the first 25 years ..government will earn an estimated $2 billion.
..Aviva Imhof, campaigns director of the International Rivers Network..
"Construction is proceeding on deadline," she said after a two-week visit to the area. "But the social and environmental measures are lagging."

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infowars Charlie Sheen interviewed
..in July01 pilot guns were removed, there since the 60s. Also Cheney subsumed the power to shoot-down..

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March 2003 "According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska," former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report.

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At full throttle (7 TeV beams), the energy stored in the LHC beam is 700 MegaJoules, or 10 TeraWatts of power while the beam is dumped. How big is that? Well, 10 TeraWatts is about half of the world’s total instantaneous power output.

Joules
1 litre petrol 3.4E76
Battleship guns 3E8
LHC Beam 7E8
Gulfstream G500 2.4E9
767 @253m/sec 5E9


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