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Wired August 21, 2007 Mike Spinelli	Chasing Bugatti: Two Upstart Carmakers Race to Beat the King If you're the best, you'll spend eternity defending your title. The Bugatti Veyron carries that burden through the automotive netherworld. Now two small builders are eager to unseat the king, with rides that boast insane horsepower figures and ground-gripping aerodynamics.
Wired August 21, 2007 Vince Beiser	Moondust Miners Dig for $250,000 in NASA Prize Money The Regolith Excavation Challenge is a NASA-sponsored competition aimed at applying outsider ingenuity to space colonization.
Wired August 21, 2007 Joe Brown	Technology Makes Skydiving Foolproof. Yeah, Right. Skydiving isn't the death-defying sport it once was. Thanks to high tech gear, from idiotproof chutes to specialized planes, leaping from an aircraft now involves about as much skill -- and as much risk -- as riding a roller coaster.
Wired August 21, 2007 Bob Parks	Scramble Some DNA With the Bio-Rad Helios Gene Gun Labs worldwide use a helium-powered gun for everything from shooting nano sensors into mice and flu-fighting genes into chickens to injecting potato DNA into rice, which makes the crop more insect- resistant.
Wired August 21, 2007 Charlie Emrich	Aussie Researchers Cut, Grind, and Polish the Perfect Kilogram Materials scientists create the roundest object in world weighing one perfect kilogram... International System of Units Standards: Meter... Second... Ampere... Kelvin... etc.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Kieron Murphy	The Radio of the Golden Age of Radio While Radiola may be too detailed for the average reader, the author has a compelling story to tell and he does a first-rate job of telling it.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Slideshow: The Future of Music Part One: Tearing Down the Wall of Noise -- An animated representation of how the dynamic range of musical recordings has been traded for loudness, and what the future holds for audiophiles in this environment.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Joseph J. Morrissey	End the Mobile Phone Ban in Hospitals Here are the standards, and the argument, to let people use cellphones in hospitals.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Sandra Upson	Tracing the Technology of Pleasure Rachel Maines's quirky research project makes it to the big screen. Her book, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, has been made into a documentary film, Passion & Power.
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Michael Dumiak	Airport of Tomorrow In Germany, engineering giant Siemens tests features designed to make air travel less awful.
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