Engineering

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Popular Mechanics November 28, 2007 Erik Sofge	Taser Fires Back at U.N. Anti-Torture Committee: Analysis The Arizona-based company claimed that the U.N. Committee Against Torture is "out of touch with the reality that confronts law enforcement officers every day worldwide."
Popular Mechanics November 27, 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Stem Cells 2.0: Beyond the Hype, Engineers Look to Build Fast Engineers play the important role of making lab bench discoveries reproducible and efficient for use in industry.
Popular Mechanics December 2007 John Quain	Super Trains: Plans to Fix U.S. Rail Could End Road & Sky Gridlock With airports and highways more congested than ever, new steel-wheel and magnetic levitation lines that move millions in Europe and Japan have the potential to resurrect the age of American railroads.
Wired November 27, 2007 Andrew Blum	Engineer Bill Baker Is the King of Superstable 150-Story Structures Baker's ascension -- and his buttressed core -- comes at the beginning of the supertall era. People, corporations, and even desert city-states with oversize checkbooks and matching egos are racing to conquer their skylines. Most of them call Bill Baker.
Wired November 27, 2007 Gregory Mone	Getting a Grip: Building the Ultimate Robotic Hand To do real work in our offices and homes, to fetch our staplers or clean up our rooms, robots are going to have to master their hands.
Wired November 27, 2007 Lisa Katayama	Rights Watchman Uses Satellite Photography to Monitor Abuse in Crisis Zones How a geo-information specialist has been using satellite photography to help NGOs document atrocities in isolated crisis zones.
Wired November 27, 2007 Miyoko Ohtake	The Most Dangerous Object in the Office This Month: The Photonic Disruptor This laser is borderline illegal. With an output of 105 milliwatts, it's 21 times more powerful than your average presentation pointer.
Wired November 27, 2007 Mary Jane Irwin	Star Wars-Obsessed Rocket Geeks Build and Launch an X-Wing Fighter At 23 feet long, this actual, working Star Wars X-Wing is impressive, but not the kind of craft you'd want to take into battle against a Death Star.
Wired November 27, 2007 Erin Biba	WTF?! The Positronium Superlaser Is Almost Complete. Muh-ha-ha-ha! Stabilize a matter-antimatter mix into a substance called positronium -- as a couple of physicists did for 100 nanoseconds -- and you're on your way to turning that jolt into a focused, ultrapowerful laser.
Wired November 27, 2007 Peter Savodnik	Covering Chernobyl's Destroyed Nuke Reactor -- For Good This Time When Chernobyl's Number Four reactor blew up in 1986, workers quickly slapped a giant concrete sarcophagus over the site to contain the hazard. Twenty years later, the Ukrainian government is finally planning something more permanent.
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