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http://www.asd-network.com/press_detail_B.asp?ID=23510&NID=284998
US and UK forces have been dropping leaflets in order to win the "hearts and minds" of the people in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, a box dropped by UK forces yesterday failed to break apart in the air and landed on top of a young Afghan girl who died:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8282067.stm
Article about how the US military is trying to get a military smartphone ready as soon as possible--the troops want a combat ready cell phone and there are a lot of features in the iPhone that are useful for soldies:
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20090930.aspx
Philadelphia-Area schools have invested in software that prevents sex offenders and other undesirables to prevent them from being around the students. The security system costs each school $1500 and last year it flagged 1,700 convicted sex offenders:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20090929_Schools_add_security_scanners_for_visitors.html
Report states that closing schools and day care centers this flu season in the US due to the swine flu could cost between $10 billion and $47 billion:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iu1XeOZnzPrr-dJpEmcibGTDP9wAD9B1JKM00
Nearly 86% of Americans said that it was unlikely or very unlikely that they would get the swine flu and a majority of Americans would not take an emergency vaccine for the swine flu:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8820
NSF has had a big problem over the past year of employees downloading Internet porn while at work. One NSF executive (who retired once he was caught) tried to give a humanitarian excuse for looking at porn from work!
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency//print/
A big battle is going on right now over whether or not more dams should be built in California:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/29/MNRO19SUMN.DTL
Iridium made a $108 million profit last year and its $200 million IPOwill give it the money to start replacing its satellites:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092903224.html?wpisrc=newsletter
AT&T announced an agreement with Terrestar to offer a smartphone that will provide AT&T and satellite service:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/t-announces-agreement-terrestar-offer-integrated-cellular-satellite-solution?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Nice summary of the broadband network situation and plans for the future for the major cellular operators in the US:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/snapshot-tier-1-broadband-network-deployments/2009-09-28?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Power Loaded exoskeleton enables the wearer to lift 220 pounds without any effort...and really does look like the exoskeleton that Ripley used at the end of Aliens:
http://gizmodo.com/5370907/power-loader-exoskeleton-gives-superhuman-strength
Female pizza delivery worker got tired of a man who kept answering the door with no pants, so now there are no pizza deliveries going to his house:
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/GJNEWS_01/709299921/-1/FOSNEWS