United States

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BusinessWeek August 1, 2005	Quiet Teamwork on Border Safety Mexico's Geronimo Gutierrez talks about the "underestimated" Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America.
Entrepreneur August 2005 Jane Easter Bahls	Action Sacked A new law aims to protect you from class-action suits. Under the new law, all class-action lawsuits with plaintiffs from more than one state will have to be filed in federal courts, which tend to be less sympathetic than state courts to these suits.
Entrepreneur August 2005 Stephen Barlas	Feel the Burn The Workforce Health Improvement Program Act could help small companies pump up tax deductions if it becomes law.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John McHale	Idaho National Laboratory receives second round of funding for cyber threat reduction program Idaho's Control System Security Center will receive $11.7 million in 2005 to continue its efforts to secure the computer-aided control systems that operate the nation's critical infrastructures.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John Rhea	New terrorist challenge: North Korea It's a challenge the United States can ill afford to ignore. North Korea's WMDs are not illusory. Moreover, its missiles make Saddam Hussein's look puny by comparison.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John McHale	DHS turns to high tech to control borders Border agents cannot possibly check every car or every traveler. So U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials are relying on new technologies -- such as those noted here -- to tighten the country's borders.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	Private business lags behind Pentagon in rush to new Internet protocol Two years ago, leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense announced a policy that would make their entire Global Information Grid IPv6-enabled by 2008. There is just one problem: everyone else, from corporate America to the rest of the federal government, is dragging their feet.
Smithsonian August 2005 Elizabeth Royte	e-gad! Americans discard more than 100 million computers, cellphones and other electronic devices each year. As "e-waste" piles up, so does concern about this growing threat to the environment.
InternetNews July 21, 2005 Roy Mark	Senators Promise 'Brain Drain' Bill Lawmakers drafting bill designed to refill America's academic pipeline with science and engineering graduates.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Ben Klemens	Software Patents Don't Compute How the U.S. patent system attempts to draw a dividing line between patentable machines and unpatentable mathematics- and why the system is failing.
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