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National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy SEAL Garments Protect From Cold, Heat, Germs During future deployments, Navy SEALs will be wearing new custom-designed undergarments made with innovative insulation materials, which create a "microclimate" around the body, according to the manufacturer.
National Defense February 2004 Michael Peck	Adjustable Rocket Motor Makes Tactical Missiles More Flexible Developing controllable-thrust rocket motors may enable the U.S. military services to condense multiple families of tactical missiles into a single all-purpose weapon.
National Defense February 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Military Fuel-Cell Programs Not Yet Ready for Prime Time While the commercial industry is taking significant steps forward in the adoption of fuel cell technology, military researchers are taking a wait-and-see approach, expressing concern that fuel cells so far have not proven they can work in combat environments.
InternetNews January 26, 2004 Michael Singer	Intel Puts Chip Making Technique on the Fast Track Chip making giant's $20 million investment in Cymer's extreme ultraviolet lithography could help bring sub-45 nanometer chips to market earlier than first thought.
PC Magazine February 3, 2004 Alfred Poor	Carbon Nano TVs Could your television become as thin as a picture hanging on a wall?
InternetNews January 16, 2004 Eric Griffith	Mesh Standard on the Starting Block At the interim meeting of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group this week in Vancouver, British Columbia, a study group was formed to begin looking into eventually creating an industry-recognized standard for wireless mesh networking.
CIO January 15, 2004 Christopher Lindquist	Science Fairs Grow Up An international competition for university students encourages entrepreneurs and unearths innovations.
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Eric Smalley	Quantum dice debut Researchers have overcome a major obstacle to generating random numbers on quantum computers by limiting the possibilities in the otherwise unlimited randomness of a set of quantum particles.
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Pressure shapes plastic If you want to turn a plastic into a liquid you usually have to apply heat. A material with a nanoscale mix of hard and soft plastics, however, can be made to flow at room temperature, given high-pressure. The result could be cheaper and greener recycling.
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Software repairs itself on the go It's a challenge keeping complicated programs running. The emerging field of self-healing software aims to make programs take care of themselves. A tool that models data structures helps computers get the picture.
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