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InternetNews February 11, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	IT, Net Neutrality Groups Praise Stimulus Plan Broadband provisions likely to remain intact as House and Senate reconcile versions of closely watched, multibillion-dollar bill.
BusinessWeek February 10, 2009 Jon Fine	TicketMaster-Live Nation: An Obama Layup Have the Justice Dept. nix the TicketMaster/Live Nation merger, Mr. President, and both consumers and performers will rejoice.
National Defense March 2009 Matthew Rusling	Military Weapons Adapted for Port Defense Technologies that for decades have been tested and deployed by the U.S. military are now being tailored for use by the Department of Homeland Security to protect the nation's ports.
National Defense March 2009 Matthew Rusling	Study Blasts Container Scanning Process A new study adds fuel to an ongoing dispute between Congress and the Department of Homeland Security. The issue: screening U.S.-bound shipping containers.
National Defense March 2009 Matthew Rusling	After Six Years, Still No Tamper-Proof Shipping Containers After a six-year search for a tamper-proof shipping container, no product has been fielded and one major vendor has dropped out of the race, citing a lack of progress by the Department of Homeland Security.
National Defense March 2009 Stew Magnuson	Reverse Engineering the Brain May Accelerate Robotics Research Machines that walk upright will assist civilians and the military alike, said Stefan Schaal, associate professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Southern California.
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	In The War on Drugs, Even Small Victories Are Celebrated Even though the Defense Department regularly dispatches some of its most prized weapons systems to battle drug trafficking, the traffickers appear to be winning.
National Defense March 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Clinton: USAID Must Regain Credibility USAID is a shadow of its former self and mostly hires contractors to do the work. The military is overstretched, and would welcome an expansion of USAID.
National Defense March 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Export Controls Rhetoric Not Backed With Actions There's a responsibility on the part of the defense industry and government to push for export-control regulation changes on the Hill.
National Defense March 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Some Troops Don't Get Fair Share of Deployment Burdens A Pentagon advisory panel suggests that Army and Marine Corps troop-rotation methods may be partly to blame for the stress in the force.
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