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Boeing Concept MIT Designing Aircraft of the Future Future Planes NASA Solar Flapper Get ready for the next generation of passenger airplanes. NASA has taken the wraps off three concept designs for quiet, energy efficient aircraft that could potentially be ready to fly as soon as 2025, joining these planes of the future (and these). The designs come from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and The Boeing Company. In the final months of 2010, each of these companies won a contract from NASA to research and test their concepts during 2011. According to NASA: "[E]ach design has to fly up to 85 percent of the speed of sound; cover a range of approximately 7,000 miles; and carry between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds of payload, either passengers or cargo. For the rest of this year, each team will be exploring, testing, simulating, keeping and discarding innovations and technologies to make their design a winner." Apparently, NASA is aiming to develop a line of super-planes...

A Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity | Center for Strategic and International Studies "The cyber threat to the United States affects all aspects of society, business, and government, but there is neither a broad cadre of cyber experts nor an established cyber career field to build upon, particularly within the Federal government." Evidence continues to build showing our information infrastructure is vulnerable to threats not just from nation states but also from individuals and small groups who seek to do us harm or who wish to exploit our weaknesses for personal gain. Where We Are The nation and the world are now critically dependent on the cyber infrastructure that is vulnerable to threats and often under attack in the most real sense of the word. "Military and nuclear energy systems are under continuous attack, experiencing large losses. For at least the past six years the US Department of Defense, nuclear laboratory sites and other sensitive US civilian government...

Adrift on the Nile | Foreign Affairs It is hard to believe today, but just four years ago, the Arab world seemed on the brink of dramatic change. During the so-called Arab Spring of early 2005, Iraqis went to the polls for the first time since the demise of Saddam Hussein, Syria withdrew from Lebanon after one million protesters descended on central Beirut, and Saudi Arabia staged municipal elections. In Cairo, activists from across the political spectrum, having grown more confident and savvy, forced the regime of President Hosni Mubarak to cast itself as reform-minded, which loosened the reins on the opposition. The editorial pages of Western newspapers were asking triumphantly if the Middle East had finally arrived at that mythic tipping point. Within the Bush administration, however, there was detectable unease, particularly when it came to the developments in Egypt. U.S. officials were worrying about how to react, not because they questioned President George W. Bush's ...

What to Read on Egyptian Politics | Foreign Affairs Egyptian politics are frequently portrayed as either perpetually in crisis or essentially unchanging. Similarly, the country itself is seen as a chaotic place full of angry masses on the verge of revolt or an iron-fisted and stable dictatorship. In actuality, Egypt's political dynamics elude easy stereotypes: a powerful authoritarian state coexists with feisty social groups and various organized interests. Understanding how state and society interact is crucial for placing current events in their proper context, and these readings offer a useful starting point for gaining such an understanding. Together they explain how Egypt's presidents built one of the strongest authoritarian states in the contemporary world; describe the main interest groups sparring with the state, including the Muslim Brothers; and show how the country's ordinary citizens cope with economic privation and political exclusion. The Egypt of Nasser and S...

Yevgeny Shestakov’s Discussion Club: A joint project of Rossiiskaya Gazeta and the Valdai International Discussion Club The many faces of Islam 09:41 28/01/2011 As a result of globalization, a burka-clad girl from some backwater Afghan or Turkish village can now find herself inhabiting the same space as female college student in Paris sporting a bare midriff. What role does Islam play in the West today? Is its influence possible to manage? >> Other news of the day As a result of globalization, a burka-clad girl from some backwater Afghan or Turkish village can now find herself inhabiting the same space as female college student in Paris sporting a bare midriff. What role does Islam play in the West today? Is its influence possible to manage? As Muslims become an increasingly prominent part of Europe’s social landscape, sociologists and politicians try to understand how non-Muslim Europeans feel about Islam, as well as what Muslim communities make of the continent’s native ...

After the recent spate of suicide bombings in Pakistan, the Commanding Officer of Pakistan's Army has tightened security. Quote of the day: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe--Albert Einstein. Security in Iraq

Two top officials who were conspicuously absent from Medvedev’s meeting — Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Federal Security Service director Alexander Bortnikov. They should have been grilled on whether everything possible had been done to prevent the attack. Upon learning of the terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport, President Dmitry Medvedev convened an emergency meeting with Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika and Transportation Minister Igor Levitin. Thus, Medvedev invited only those who are directly responsible for responding to a terrorist attack. Bastrykin was charged with creating an investigative task force, Chaika was told to examine all transportation facilities, and Levitin was instructed to beef up security measures at airports. But there were two top officials who were conspicuously absent from Medvedev’s meeting — Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Federal Security Service director Alexander Bortnikov. They s...

Do not let the “Bad Guys”, terrorize us:) My deepest sympathy to all the victims. Wake up world! Confront the islamic scourge before it overruns and destroys all our nations! I know that all Orthodox Christian nations stand with Russia. Long live Russia! Death to terrorism! " Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. "

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We demand an apology from Daniel Cohn-Bendit to Orban Viktor to and the Hungarian people ! The parlamentary fraction of the Green Party, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, was unjustly vitriolic in his criticism. Cohn-Bendit said : " the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is on the way to becom a European Hugo Chavez,- he said, referring to the autocratic Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez. We, the people of Hungary, are deeply offended. We demand an apology from Danny Cohn-Bendit to Orban Viktor, as well as from the Hungarian Nation. Before you all talk and smear, perhaps you are aware of the fact, that this media law replaces the old one made in 1986, that was accepted under duress in the communism. You should be also aware of the fact, that the old one is harsher than the new one. The old legislation includes rules, that allows the discontuniation of newspapers and shutting down of news agencies, that are not liked by the government? Nobody criticised the legislation that existed al...

Russia is set to revolutionise its identity cards 17/01/2011 18:03

High School Revamp Stirs Fears The draft of the new education reform, released to a blast of patriotic fanfare last month, is stirring up sharp criticism from opponents, who fear that the new program will be used to brainwash them into becoming docile servants of the authorities.

Russia has been able to establish somewhat better relations with the West, after failed attempts of the early 1990s, when the process of systemic transition, disintegration of the USSR and the defeat of communist ideology had created domestic turmoil, undermined its international standing and influence over the former Soviet geo-political space. This had led to Russia being treated as a ‘junior’ and not an ‘equal’ partner by the major powers. Recent developments however promise Russia a more equal standing vis-à-vis the West. This was evident at the summit held in Lisbon on November 20, 2010 and which was preceded by a Russian, French and German meeting at Deauville, the ‘reset’ in USA-Russian and Polish-Russian relations, and the new START treaty. Despite lingering suspicions, both sides are forging better relations. But how enduring is this rapprochement likely to be? Russian concerns over NATO enlargement: Russia perceives the expansion of NATO as posing a threat to its se...