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Wired July 24, 2007 Mary Jane Irwin	Caramel-Pumping 3-D Fabricator Has Couple on a Sugar High One couple creates a 3-D fabricator that creates objects from sugar.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Sandra Upson	Google Watches Its Watts Bill Weihl, director of energy strategy at Google, talks about energy-hogging computers and the trouble with power plugs.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 William Sweet	Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems.
National Defense August 2007 Robert H. Williams	Tiny Building Roving Robot Carries Sensors, Weapons A multi-mission compact robot that is able to negotiate stairs and other obstacles has been configured especially for action in buildings and other confined spaces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Power Trip Sophisticated electronics drive the need for plentiful power on the battlefield.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007	IEC Defines New Global Standard for Blown-Fiber Procedures and Performance The International Electrotechnical Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, has published the first global blown-fiber standard, IEC 60794-5. The document includes definitions of blown-fiber products and a test menu for systems integrators.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007	European Fusion Researchers Choose Cedip Infrared for IR Thermography The European Fusion Development Agreement has awarded Cedip Infrared Systems in France a contract to supply a further advanced infrared thermography system for monitoring the temperature of components inside its Tokamak Fusion reactor.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Ben Kuster	CFD Analysis Delivers Impressive Savings for Electronics Thermal Design Computational-fluid-dynamics software is an invaluable thermal-analysis weapon for the electronics design arsenal. At VT Miltope Corp., it saves weeks of development time and thousands of development dollars-even on small projects.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John Keller	FPGA Integrators Are Still Asking a Lot From Design and Development Tools Tools that enable systems designers to alter and control the functionality of field-programmable gate arrays have improved substantially over the past few years, yet FPGA users still are looking for improvements.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John McHale	Homeland Security Budget and Market Show Steady Growth Nearly half a decade old, the U.S. DHS is showing moderate growth in its budget request, while funding for research and development focuses on more solutions for today than for programs 20 years in the future.
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