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Under the Radar: U.S. Aire Force purchase of air defense shields against terrorist attacks raises questions
"The Pentagon charged the US Air Force Electronic Systems Command, or ESC, with the task of developing a radar system that would marry NORAD and FAA radars together in a manner meant to prevent terrorists from using hijacked jets for 9/11-like attacks. Under the guise of such work, ESC instead used the panic of the 9/11 charter to fund another project that the Air Force and Pentagon had rebuffed years earlier as being too expensive: the funding of a mobile air defense system."
Tags: air force; defense; military; federal government; FOIA; government spending
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Minnesota Stem Cell Investigation
The New Scientist looked at data from the University of Minnesota's study on using adult stem cells that have the same effect as embryonic stem cells. Research data was compared and it seemed that the University withdrew the data because the results were hard to repeat. The research from the successful experiment was reprinted again and claimed to be for new cells, but the process hadn't been conducted with successful results.