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National Defense April 2012 Stew Magnuson	DHS Centers of Excellence Spared from Budget Cuts The fiscal year 2013 Department of Homeland Security budget proposal seeks to restore some of the huge cuts the Science and Technology Directorate suffered at the hands of Congress last year.
National Defense April 2012 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Considering Permanent Bases in Arctic The Coast Guard will for the first time dispatch one of its new National Security Cutters to the Arctic as the ice breaks up on Alaska's North Slope this summer.
National Defense April 2012 Dan Ward	Faster, Better, Cheaper: Why Not Pick All Three? Before we start making unnecessary tradeoffs, sacrificing speed and performance in the name of thrift, maybe we should reevaluate what happened at NASA in the 1990s. What the data tells me is this: FBC worked, and it's worth another try.
National Defense April 2012 Sapolsky & Schrage	More Than Technology Needed to Defeat Roadside Bombs Soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan call the bigger IEDs "Buffalo killers" for the type of MRAP that they can destroy.
Chemistry World March 9, 2012 Rebecca Trager	EPA starts over with its hexavalent chromium review The US Environmental Protection Agency has quietly decided to restart its toxicology review of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in drinking water.
Registered Rep. March 9, 2012 Diana Britton	Yield of Dreams: Could Fisker be to Blame for Advanced Equities' Troubles? The co-founders of Advanced Equities were served up Wells notices related to a private offering in 2009. It's unclear from FINRA filings what private offering they're being investigated for.
Registered Rep. March 9, 2012 Kristen French	Due Diligence: SEC Gives 70-Year-Old Broker a Break Back in the late 1970s, at the start of his career, Robert Hardee Quarles got himself into trouble -- offering and selling non-exempt securities without a valid and effective registration statement and also misleading his customers about the nature and risks of those securities.
Registered Rep. March 8, 2012 Diana Britton	Founders of Advanced Equities Slammed with Wells Notices Over Private Offerings The SEC sent the notices to Chairman Keith Daubenspeck and CEO Dwight Badger in January 2012, notifying them that the staff may take enforcement action related to a private offering in 2009.
Chemistry World March 8, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Double whammy blow to US nuclear science Nuclear science in the US has been dealt a double blow with the announcement of huge budget cuts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory coming hard on the heels of the mothballing of a multi-billion dollar research facility at the lab.
HBS Working Knowledge March 8, 2012 Dina Gerdeman	Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong?
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