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LOTD for November 24

The UN IAEA reported that Iran's uranium enrichment program shut down a week ago, coinciding with the release of detailed expert studies of the Stuxnet virus. It appears that Stuxnet was aimed at destroying Iran's centrifuge farms, and the number of operating centrifuges in Iran has significantly decreased:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/iaea-iran-forced-stop-enrichment-16-november



A robot is being tested at Fort Benning that may soon have the ability to rescue wounded soldiers under fire without risking other soldier's lives:
http://www.asdnews.com/news/32063/Robots_to_Rescue_Wounded_on_Battlefield.htm



Researchers have come up with another way to increase gas mileage for cars--creating a system that harvests heat from an engine's exhaust to generate electricity:
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/101123XuTEG.html



Apple has increasingly been gaining acceptance in the enterprise market, and they have been hiring away key members of RIM's enterprise sales team to help their efforts to replace the BlackBerry in the enterprise:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101123-712196.html



RF remote control devices are approaching the performance/feature/price tipping point to have RF remote controls toreplace traditional IR remotes in the mass market:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=1011&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=00000&PRODLETT=DT&CommonCount=0



The Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks appears to have lasted just 3 days, as the #2 Senate Republican from Arizona appears to have gotten $200 million for a water rights claim slipped into another bill...it should be noted that the person leading the drive to ban earmarks is the #1 Senate Republican from Arizona:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR2010112400488.html



Syracuse man was sentenced to 5 years in probation and 8 weekends in jail after being charged with drunk driving THREE TIMES IN ONE WEEK. He's now going to prison after admitting he had violated his probation by not seeking out-patient services to deal with his alcohol addition:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/syracuse_man_charged_with_thre.html

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