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A new report claims that a "shadow government" of federal contractors has exploded in size over the last five years. The document indicates that procurement spending increased by over $175 billion between 2000 and 2005, making federal contr
High in the Himalayas, a barbed wire fence snakes its way across a desolate landscape. On most days, a thick, white, freezing cloud descends across the peaks, and it is hard to see anything. But now and then a figure looms out of the mist, dressed in
The long cable about the stark realities of life in Baghdad from U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalizad reproduced in the Washington Post Sunday should serve as a corrective to the wave of renewed optimism that has swept Washington about the Iraq wa
South Dakota voters this fall will decide the fate of a law that would ban most abortions in the state. Opponents have gathered enough signatures to refer the law passed by the Legislature to a statewide public vote in the Nov. 7 election.
Intel is about to deliver the opening salvo in a wave of multicore processors that could ultimately lead to chips with hundreds of cores aboard. The chip maker's new chip circuitry that emphasizes power efficiency
They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than
Just in time for his return to the silver screen, Superman's trusty phone booth is back. Only this time, there's a bit more room for his biceps. Because the pay phone itself is gone, today's booths are BYOC - bring your own cellphone.
Did al Qaeda plot to release cyanide gas in New York City subways? A new book details the alleged plan, but the former chief of White House counterterrorism said there are reasons to be skeptical about the report. The terror network supposedly planne
Norway began construction of a "doomsday vault", a vast top-security seed bank in a mountain near the North Pole to ensure food supplies in the event of environmental catastrophe or nuclear war.
Bell discusses astronomical sight-seeing utilizing Spirit, fresh from a laborious trek up Husband Hill within the Columbia Hills at the robot’s Gusev Crater exploration zone. "... the prospect of stargazing from the surface of another world.”
Hyperactive Bob, the kitchen production management computer system from Hyperactive Technologies, is now being licensed to Zaxby's, a fast-food restaurant chain. This artificially intelligent computer system gives orders to employees
Italian prosecutors requested the indictment on charges of murder and attempted murder of a U.S. soldier in the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad _ a case that saw the agent mourned as a national hero.
In a move that recognizes the modern world's twin obsessions — indulgence and guilt — chocolate maker Nestle said it would purchase weight loss product maker Jenny Craig Inc. for $600 million.
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D) of California said the party had already discussed Iraq in its "Real Security" agenda, but then confirmed, "We don't even have a party position on the war. We don't ask members to do one t
In this country where women are forced to completely cover themselves in public, are barred from driving, and need permission to travel abroad, it's small wonder many are embracing the freedom of anonymity on the Internet. As Internet usage co
[Must be time for Defense industry budget renewals.] The US is consulting with fellow members of the UN Security Council on possible steps if North Korea tests a missile, US Ambassador John Bolton said. The US, Japan and other countries warned North
Now that top White House aide Karl Rove is off the hook in the CIA leak probe, President George W. Bush must weigh whether to pardon former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the only one indicted in the three-year investigati
The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the U.S.
When Tenet insisted in his personal meetings with the president that there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, Cheney and Rumsfeld initiated a secret program to re-examine the evidence and marginalize the agency and Tenet.
After three inmates killed themselves, the Pentagon declared the suicides an act of 'asymmetric warfare', banned the media and went on a PR offensive. But as despair grows within the camp, so too does outrage mount at its brutal and secretive
Four months into the job and the honeymoon is over for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The stock market is gyrating. Inflation is picking up. Economic growth is slowing down. It's an unsettling picture for Alan Greenspan's successor.
Researchers have built a prototype device that disables digital cameras. Future versions might thwart unwanted photo-taking at a specific location and even prevent clandestine videos from being made. The technology might one day prevent espionage
The golden buffalo, the legendary symbol of the American West, will soon roam again--this time as the nation's first pure gold coin. The U.S. Mint will start taking orders in the coming wee
With the market for corn-based ethanol booming, lawmakers from sugar-producing U.S. states are hoping that beet and cane growers can soon jump onto the renewable fuel bandwagon. They cite the model of Brazil, which produces ethanol made from sugar
City officials in Champaign and Urbana took notice when they heard that an ethanol plant proposed nearby would use about 2 million gallons of water per day, most likely from the aquifer that also supplies both cities. "There was concern about
Natural killer cells form the body's front line of defense. When viruses and cancers attack, the cells keep the invaders at bay while the rest of the immune system prepares. Unlike our other immune cells, natural killer cells are always at the
A molecule-sized switch just 50 nanometers wide may someday control microscopic machines and also could make DNA sequencing faster, less expensive, and more precise. Just about any machine depends on switches to turn this on or that off. And fully
A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said. The computer was stolen from the home of an employee of ING U.S. Financial Services, said
On the sun-splashed Caribbean island of St. Kitts, Yale University researchers are injecting millions of human brain cells into the heads of monkeys afflicted with Parkinson's disease.
Reflexiones Libertarias
Hace unas semanas, Hugo Chávez sufrió una dolorosa derrota en Perú cuando su candidato, Ollanta Humala, perdiera las elecciones para la presidencia de la República.
