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AFP eWire March 12, 2007	New Congressional Caucus on Philanthropy Formed The first-ever Congressional Philanthropy Caucus has been created in the House of Representatives, and a similar Senate group may be formed soon.
InternetNews March 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Feds Tune In DTV Subsidy Plan All U.S. households will be eligible for two $40 coupons to help defray the cost of digital converter boxes that analog television sets will need to view over-the-air broadcasting after Feb. 17, 2009.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Bill Would Protect Call Records From Snoopers New legislation would have FTC write rules for stricter security standards for consumers' personal phone records.
Bio-IT World February 2007 Kevin Davies	Obama Declares for Personalized Medicine Barack Obama is one of few members of congress who sees the genomics tidal wave and is doing something about it. Obama may be a Democrat, but drug and biotech industries have reason to hope.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Clint Boulton	SEC Cracking Down on Spam 'Pump and Dump' The SEC has suspended securities trading of 35 companies as part of a new crackdown on market manipulation via spam.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Bash Colleges Over Campus Piracy House panel threatens to take matters into its own hands if college administrators don't crack down on online campus piracy.
Wired March 2007 Noah Shachtman	Be More Than You Can Be Heat-resistant. Cold-proof. Tireless. Tomorrow's soldiers are just like today's only better. Inside the Pentagon's human enhancement project.
Wired March 2007 Noah Shachtman	"It's OK for Us to Fail" Darpa director Tony Tether talks about improving soldier potential and the need to think big.
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Erik Sofge	Laser-Powered Midair Missile Defense Takes Aim Northrop Grumman's antimissile system for commercial jets finally takes aim.
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