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http://mae.pennnet.com/display_article/371343/32/NEWS/none/none/1/UUV-mothership-to-deploy-intelligence-gathering-unmanned-underwater-vehicles-in-development-by-SAIC/
The debt crisis in Dubai may be a HUGE problem for both Airbus and Boeing. Dubai has a $60 billion backlog of aircraft orders that are in jeopardy, and losing that $60 billion would be devastating to the aerospace industry:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/europeinsight/archives/2009/11/dubais_crisis_t.html
About 73% of US households have broadband internet access and over 88% of US households can choose from at least 1 type of broadband internet access, both numbers have steadily increased over the years:
http://www.4gwirelessjobs.com/articles/article-detail.php?Broadband-Adoption-rate-for-homes-passed-in-the-US-is-72.9%-...-Business-Brief&Arid=NTE=&Auid=NTY=
Article about how Leno has about 105 cars and 85 motorcycles stored in his huge vehicle compound and how he continues to expand his compound and his vehicle collection:
http://www.mensjournal.com/jay-lenos-time-machines
Canada has enacted laws to ban smoking in a variety of places, even looking to ban smoking in apartments and condos even if the smoker is the owner of the place...while at the same time providing free crack pipes and places to use crack cocaine:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/no-smoking-allowed-unless-its-crack/article1332991/
Study found that dogs are more likely to become nuisance barkers when they are bred in a home environment, have access to indoors or live with other dogs. It may turn out that homebred dogs bark more because they have greater separation anxiety because they are away from their owners...dogs apparently deal with separation anxiety by barking:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/barking-dogs-nuisance.html
Study found that young men who voted for McCain suffered an immediate drop in testosterone when the election results were announced while men who voted for Obama had no change in their testosterone levels. Interesting, men who voted for Barr (the Libertarian candidate) suffered the immediate testosterone drop that McCain voters suffered even though they couldn't have expected their candidate to have a serious chance to win. I also found it interesting that women voters showed no testosterone difference no matter who they voted for, so this is a male-only effect:
http://psychcentral.com/news/2009/10/20/mccains-male-voters-suffered-testosterone-drop/9071.html
Last month European astronomers unveiled the discovery of 32 planets orbiting nearby stars, including four "Super-Earths" that are not much bigger (on a planetary size scale) as our Earth:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-10-19-new-planets_N.htm
It has generally been assumed that the prehistoric cave art was created by men, but new evidence suggests that women and young girls created at least some cave drawings:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/women-girls-cave-art.html