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IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Murphy & Das	Remembering Sputnik 50 Years Later Three veterans of the early days of spaceflight reflect on the impact a tiny satellite had on the course of history.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kieron Murphy	Remembering Sputnik: Frederick C. Durant III Frederick Durant was a key advisor to the U.S. military, intelligence, and civilian space-flight programs of the 1950s and '60s. Here he discuses aerospace's early days.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kieron Murphy	Remembering Sputnik: Ernst Stuhlinger At the end of World War II, Stuhlinger joined the other members of von Braun's group of 126 scientists and engineers in the United States to work on civilian uses for advanced rockets. Here, he reminisces on Sputnik.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007	Secrets of Sputnik Fifty years ago this month, the Soviet Union launched the world's first device into orbit. Here are the facts long kept hidden. Place... Liftoff... etc.
Parameters Autumn 2007	From the Archives National security in the information age.
PC Magazine September 26, 2007 Jamie Bsales	25 Years of PC Magazine: Year Twenty 2001 In 2001, anti-Microsoft sentiment was at its peak, and many watchers expected the Department of Justice to break up the Redmond giant.
Wired September 25, 2007 Patrick Di Justo	From Benzedrine to Abilify, Chronicling America's Love of Psychiatric Drugs A history of what Americans have used to battle depression.
World War II November 2007 Lawrence Spinetta	Battle of the Bismarck Sea The Battle of the Bismarck Sea doomed Japanese hopes for victory in the South Pacific and proved the might of precision air power. The three-day battle stunned the Japanese military and changed the course of the Pacific war.
Science News September 22, 2007	Timeline: From the September 18, 1937, issue Without benefit of insects... Anti-blood clotting agent clue to thrombosis treatment... Explosions of firecrackers make fireflies show off...
Smithsonian September 2007 Ian Herbert	Debating Louis Castro Was he the first foreign-born Hispanic in the Major Leagues?
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