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National Defense September 2009 Frodl & Manoyan	National Security and Energy: Setting the Right Priorities The Center for Naval Analyses report, "Powering America's Defenses: Energy and the Risks to National Security," makes a case that national security interests are consistent with concerns about climate change.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Feds Begin to Tackle the Vexing Problem of How to Defeat Homemade Bombs Congress' attention remains focused on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, but improvised explosive devices do not receive the same attention as the chemical, biological or nuclear threats.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Improvised Bombs Have a Long History in U.S. Improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs, have been used to sow terror in the United States for longer than you may think.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Plans Under Way to Beef Up Porous Northern Border The northern border between the U.S. and Canada has its own set of issues in that the smuggling and drug trafficking is bi-directional. The administration intend to beef up security along this border.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Northern Border Camera System to Avoid Past Pitfalls The Border Patrol will be begin work this year to install a series of cameras north of Detroit with one motto in mind: keep it simple.
National Defense September 2009 Magnuson & Breitbach	Tech vs. Terrorism For every threat to the homeland, there's a business that has a technology waiting in the wings to counter a would-be terrorist's moves.
National Defense September 2009 Tessa Gellerson	Self-Storage Facilities Eye Sensors to Detect Terrorist Threats LifeStorage, a self-storage facility based in Chicago, has more than doubled the money it spends on counterterrorism technology.
National Defense September 2009 Katie Breitbach	International Gateway Airports Proposed for Small Aircraft Three Department of Homeland Security agencies are collaborating on a proposal to have small aircraft entering the United States land at so-called "gateway airports" so they can be inspected before traveling to large cities.
InternetNews August 10, 2009	Microsoft Scales Back IE8 Default Behavior In their latest joint filing with the judge in Microsoft's U.S. antitrust case, Microsoft and the DoJ cite changes in IE8's "express" installation.
Outside August 2009	Best Towns 2009 We started with the 100 most populated cities in America, using public data to rank them on factors like cost of living, unemployment, and we came up with our list of the best towns in America.
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