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Popular Mechanics March 7, 2009 Erin McCarthy	The Tech Behind Rorschach's Mask in Watchmen Although Manhattan's artistic creation was by the book, the director had something different in mind for Rorschach.
Popular Mechanics March 5, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	How to Land Robots on the Moon (and Keep them Alive) Getting them there is easier said than done. And once there, conditions on the moon's surface are likely to play havoc with machinery and sensors.
Popular Mechanics March 4, 2009 Michael Belfiore	International Space Dominance: 7 Nations Launching the Next Space Race Here is a look at the capabilities of the top -- and most-talked-about -- space-faring nations in what may be a new world order. The race is on for space dominance.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Seema Singh	New Technology to Trap Killer Sparks General Electric engineers invent an arc-flash absorber that can consume 5000 amperes and trip in mere microseconds
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Jonathan Kuniholm	Open Arms What prosthetic-arm engineering is learning from open source, crowd-sourcing, and the video-game industry
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Robb Mandelbaum	Stop That Train! Electronically controlled railway brakes may finally displace a 150-year-old technology.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Philip E. Ross	Cloud Computing's Killer App: Gaming AMD's proposed online supercomputer will handle gaming graphics so your cellphone won't have to
IEEE Spectrum March 2009	Geek Summer On a humid Saturday afternoon in late June of 1978, a dark blue gas guzzler glides up to a dormitory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Paul Wallich	Fusion on a Budget Building your own nuclear fusion reactor is easier than you think
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Susan Karlin	Foreign Affair Working abroad can make you a better engineer everywhere
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