| If you could take a pill to make you temporarily smarter, would you? The use of brain-enhancing drugs in colleges continues to rise and a recent paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics has fueled the debate over if and how students’ use of these drugs should be controlled. | |
| Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco all are getting into the game of providing communications, monitoring, and control technology. Cisco's Chambers was recently quoted as saying that his smart-grid development team has "almost an unlimited budget." | |
| This security patrol robot was created by students at the University of Oklahoma. It can autonomously patrol even challenging locations; it uses as its base an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). | |
| The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes. | |
| The Federal Housing Administration, which insures mortgages with low down payments, may require a U.S. bailout because it has $54 billion more in losses than it can withstand, a former Fannie Mae executive said. | |
| It’s the biggest mystery in global finance right now: Who conducted a sneak attack on the U.S. dollar this week? | |
| With the holiday season just a few weeks away, health officials fear the swine flu will pick up right along with air travel. | |
| Errors by Census Bureau employees may have resulted in 200 people with criminal records being hired to conduct door-to-door canvassing. | |
| A substantial quantity of the high explosive TATP -- used in London bombings and suspected in the current Najiboullah Zazi /alleged New York terror plot case -- has been located at the scene, counter terrorism sources say. Officials say there is no relation to any of the ongoing terrorism cases. | |
| Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank leaders to take into account the voices of protestors when formulating the post-crisis “new world order.” | |
| DNA isn't just a code, it's the ultimate information - the data without which the ability to perceive data wouldn't exist. We now have the ability to write our own messages into this biological blueprint, but there are important factors to consider before you start scribbling cellular graffiti. | |
| The U.S. taxpayers' investments in smaller banks are increasingly at risk. | |
| The U.S. dollar continued to tumble against most Asian currencies Thursday, prompting a wave of foreign-exchange intervention by central banks in South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand seeking to limit damage to their export industries. | |
| Even during his most frenzied days, when Congress is demanding answers or the president himself is calling, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner makes time to talk to a select group of powerful Wall Street bankers. | |
| Taking no questions, celebrated activists likely mulled rebound against Democrats in Washington. | |
| Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, was under pressure to resign after it emerged that he had admitted to paying “young boys” for sexual acts while on holiday in Thailand. | |
| House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) promised after the Democrats won the House in 2006 and then after Obama's election this year that the House would hold longer workweeks. But as the fall of 2009 wanes, the House has taken to starting on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm and adjourning "before the sun goes down" on Thursdays. | |
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