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IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Steven Cherry	Wi-Fi Nodes to Talk Amongst Themselves A new standard for mesh technologies will lower the costs of citywide wireless networks.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Prachi Patel-Predd	Traveling Light On a three-day mission, a Special Forces soldier might lug along 12 kilograms of batteries. But now the military is developing micro fuel cells that could weigh half as much as batteries, and could be recharged -- or rather refilled.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Gagliardi & Grey	Old World, New Grid CERN's massive parallel processing system is expanding from particle physics to everything else, and from Europe to everywhere else. The initiative, funded by the European Union, is called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE).
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Trudy E. Bell	Waiting for Gravity Pioneering astronomers and physicists around the world have teamed with engineers to build technologically ingenious detectors to seek evidence of gravitational waves.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Kim Krieger	Heart of a New Machine Robots don't have feelings -- but this little machine fakes it amazingly well.
Wired July 2006 David Wolman	Train to the Roof of the World China's new 1,200-mile railway crosses some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Plug in your oxygen supply. All aboard the Tibet express.
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean	Advanced Video Techniques Help Evaluate Marine Live-Fire Training At one of the Marine Corps' largest live-fire training facilities, a new surveillance system is helping to provide military and other security forces with better evaluations following close-quarter battle exercises.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Bomb Disposal Teams Deliver Blunt Talk on Robots EOD specialists who served in Iraq recently had a chance to address the robot manufacturers, and tell them in sometimes brutally honest terms, what they liked and didn't like about the systems, and describe the often deadly hazards they faced daily.
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean	Equipment `Quick Fixes' Are the Order of the Day As the U.S. armed services face a growing demand for new battlefield technologies, equipment "quick fixes" often have circumvented the formal acquisition process.
National Defense July 2006 Grace Jean	Light Source Offers Alternative to Radio Under a Navy contract and with corporate funds, Torrey Pines Logic has developed a tiny transmitter and receiver system utilizing prisms that, when engineered into an attachment that fits eyepieces of optical devices allows users to beam infrared light pulses and, in the process, exchange voice or digital data.
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