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The U.S. needs new nukes. That's the message Pentagon chief Robert Gates is delivering right now, as part of a broad, spirited defense of America's nuclear arsenal.

Congress and the Bush administration have been wrestling for years over the so-called Reliable Replacement Warhead — the next generation of nuclear weapon designs. Lawmakers have had the upper hand in the match, eliminating funding for RRW. Today, in a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Gates looks to scramble back on top, with a dire warning to Capitol Hill.

Defense Chief: Give Us New Nukes, or Else | Danger Room from Wired.com

Scientists have better maps of distant Mars than the moon where astronauts have walked. But India hopes to change that with its first lunar mission.

Chandrayaan-1 — which means "Moon Craft" in ancient Sanskrit — launched from the Sriharikota space center in southern India early Wednesday morning (Local Time) in a two-year mission aimed at laying the groundwork for further Indian space expeditions.

SPACE.com -- India Launches Moon Mission in Asian Space Race

Five years after being formally approved and following a series of late delays, India's first-ever planetary mission is on track to launch the morning of Oct. 22 Local Time, with arrival in lunar orbit scheduled to occur 17 days later.

SPACE.com -- India Shoots for the Moon with New Probe

The response to Sept. 11 was “a huge overreaction,” Dame Stella told The Guardian newspaper in an interview published on on Saturday.

And calling the response a war on terror, she said. “got us off on the wrong foot, because it made people think terrorism was something you could deal with by force of arms primarily.”

From London, a Rebuke to U.S. Approach on Terrorism - NYTimes.com

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It can be emotionally overwhelming to see human flesh in high definition.

The Medium - True Colors - NYTimes.com

By this standard, housing starts aren’t just at their lowest level since 1991; they’re at their lowest level since the government began keeping monthly statistics, way back in 1959. Take a look at the chart above. Since 2003, housing starts have fallen 63 percent.

The Crash in Housing Starts - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

2008-10-05: Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta

Take a stroll through the archive, Ishida has been on a roll for about the last 2 months!

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ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea. It was originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980[1]. It was produced by ISO Technical Committee 34 (Food products), Sub-Committee 8 (Tea).

ISO 3103 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Instead of having a big, loud and complex computer on your desk, what if you could have a quiet, thin machine that rarely needed an upgrade or a fix?

Thin clients... again.

Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server - NYTimes.com