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Wired February 25, 2008 Joshua Davis	High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace An attempt to prevent a ship containing 4,703 new Mazdas, estimated total worth of $103 million, from sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
Wired February 25, 2008 Seth Mnookin	Consumer Reports' Secret Shoppers Have Lots of Explaining to Do Secret shoppers for Consumer Reports play a critical role in researching products objectively.
Wired February 25, 2008 Amanda Griscom Little	The Environmental Defense Fund's Fred Krupp on the Best Capitalist Climate Solutions The President of the Environmental Defense Fund spotlights the most promising climate solutions in his new book, Earth: The Sequel.
Wired February 25, 2008 Clive Thompson	Clive Thompson on How DIYers Just Might Revive American Innovation Americans have lost the ability to build, maintain, and repair the devices we rely on every day. And that's making it harder to solve the country's nastiest problems, like oil dependence, climate change, and global competitiveness.
Wired February 25, 2008 Ben Paynter	A Goliath Sniper Rifle May Take Some of the Physics Out of War A Barrett M107 long range sniper rifle spits Macanudo-sized .50-caliber rounds at 2,850 feet per second with enough force to punch through an engine block or decapitate a man from more than a mile out. But the gun's real selling point is physics.
Wired February 25, 2008 Matthew Phenix	A New Automaker Is in Hot Pursuit -- of the Perfect Police Car Atlanta-based Carbon Motors wants to give the police a ride they can call their own.
Wired February 25, 2008 Joshua Davis	Excerpts from Captain Rich Habib's Journal Excerpts from the team enlisted to save 4,703 Mazdas from sinking into the ocean.
AFP eWire	U.S. Do-Not-Call List Now Permanent Phone numbers on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) national Do-Not-Call List will remain there permanently unless voluntarily removed under a bill signed into law recently by President Bush.
InternetNews February 22, 2008	EU, U.S. Vow Crackdown on Computer Counterfeits EU and U.S. senior officials said on Friday they would crack down on counterfeiting of computer components.
Popular Mechanics February 22, 2008 Adam Pitluk	3 Things We Learned From the Accidental U.S. Nuke Flyby One might think that the United States' nuclear weapons would be treated with the utmost precision, but last year they mistakenly transported over the mainland.
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