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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:19:18 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Keeping an Eye on the Inauguration
Keeping an Eye on the Inauguration
One of the toughest technological challenges for law enforcement is to simultaneously monitor live feeds from the wireless cameras scattered across their jurisdictions. A nearly impossible task under any circumstances, it was an even greater one for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration.
In planning to safeguard the millions of visitors and residents in the city for the Inauguration events, Washington, D.C. required a new surveillance approach.
In response, law enforcement ...
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:26:13 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Researchers Observe Evolution Chain Reaction
Researchers Observe Evolution Chain Reaction
A team of researchers are reporting the ongoing emergence of a new species of fruit fly--and the sequential development of a new species of wasp--in the February 6 issue of the journal Science.
Jeff Feder, a University of Notre Dame biologist, and his colleagues say the introduction of apples to America almost 400 years ago ultimately may have changed the behavior of a fruit fly, leading to its modification and the subsequent modification of a parasitic wasp that feeds on ...
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:29:07 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Could Sea Level Rise to the Steps of the U.S. Capitol?
Could Sea Level Rise to the Steps of the U.S. Capitol?
Global warming raises the specter of melting glaciers and ice sheets at both ends of the globe. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, roughly the size of Texas, extends over both land and water west of Antarctica's Transantarctic mountains. Even partial melting of this vast ice sheet would cause a significant rise in sea level.
But that sea level rise would not happen uniformly around the globe, according to an article in Science magazine. The authors show that when physical and ...
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