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Chemistry World July 5, 2006 Jon Evans	Perfect Coating Won't Touch Water Imagine a container that can hold liquid without actually touching it. Just such a container could soon become reality following the development by two chemists of a perfectly hydrophobic surface.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Jain & Pankanti	A Touch of Money Biometric authentication systems for credit cards could put identity thieves out of business. Here's how it would work.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 John Voelcker	What If You Had to Build a Socially Responsible SUV? At GM's Challenge X competition among teams from 17 North American universities, turbodiesel electric hybrids running on biodiesel are par for the course. Even hydraulic hybrids and ultracapacitors don't raise eyebrows.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Justin Mullins	Ring of Steel II The ring of steel, one of the most sophisticated security systems on the planet, is a network of cameras that provides comprehensive video coverage of a large part of the City of London. Now other cities want to follow London's lead, with New York City at the head of the queue.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Elizabeth Svoboda	Look Out, Beckham: Here Come the Robots At the "World Cup" for robots, the talk is that one day the humans on the pitch are going to get a run for their money.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006	Robots Can Ape Us, But Will They Ever Get Real? One of the most profound questions of engineering, arguably, is whether we will ever create human-level consciousness in a machine. In the meantime, robots continue to take tiny little bot steps in the direction of faux humanity.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Charles A. "Bert" Fowler	The Indefatigable Inventor An IEEE Fellow offers a humorous take on engineers and inventors.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Robert W. Lucky	Famous People There really are no famous engineers. Rather, there are famous engineering achievements. While there is sure to be a steady supply of great engineering achievements in the future, it is possible that the credit for these will be more diffuse than it has been in the past.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Terry Costlow	EE Salaries Up All Over For engineers, raises are modest in the United States and Europe, but big in Asia. The impact of foreign wages that are mere fractions of U.S. salaries is a hot-button topic for both engineers and politicians. But most engineers acknowledge that it's become a factor in their career planning.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Lauren Aaronson	Q&A With: Jeannette Wing An interview with the head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon about software engineering, education, and computational thinking.
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