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Army

The Army's New Anti-Sniper Technology

Slowly but surely, the U.S. Army is adjusting to the reality of hard-fought, guerrilla wars like the ones we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and redirecting its R&D towards a new breed of battlefield technology. This year, ...READ»

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Afghanistan's Presidential Election

Congrats to the winner of Afghanistan's second presidential poll: You're leader of the world's No. 1 narco state. Opium production has grown 4,000% since the Taliban's ouster in 2001, and the country now supplies 93% of the global ...READ»

Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

Negroponte and Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing CountriesREAD»

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iPod Goes to Boot Camp to Help You Snipe Better

This is a wonderful (or perhaps just sickly bizarre) mix of pleasure and danger: It's an iPod Touch mounted to a sniper rifle. And it's not just there to deliver some banging battlefield tunes to the ear of the guy behind the trigger, ...READ»

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Rust Never Sleeps: How Bill Gates Might Save the World

Bill Gates just might save the world.READ»

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Fast Company Recommended Events July + August 2009

July MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN     01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 0 ...READ»

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Hard Times in Little Kabul

Afghan businesses in the Fremont, California area have been hard hit by fallout from the terrorist attacks. But patriotic Afghan-Americans are hopeful that their customers will return before it's too late.READ»

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Wishful Thinking

Getting and giving: fun tech toys for your holiday list, plus three worthy causes.READ»

Pop!Stars 2006

Six headliners from this year's conference.READ»

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Armed (and Networked) to the Teeth

A brigade sporting a array of battlefield gadgets readies to deploy in Afghanistan.READ»

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My 100 Days Report Card

Something about this 100-days conversation isn't working for me. President Obama will celebrate his 100th day in office with a town hall meeting in St. Louis and a nationally televised press conference from the White House.  ...READ»

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NATO Tweets Too [Updated]

Twitter gained a lot of credibility thanks to its use by Iranian protestors recently, and we already knew that it was useful for spreading breaking news. But did you know that NATO, the global military machine, Twitters ...READ»

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F-22 Fighter Gets the Axe

President Barack Obama won an important victory late yesterday afternoon when the Senate voted to halt production of the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jet (seen below). Nearly two billion dollars had been earmarked for the ...READ»

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Seven Strategies for Successful Alliances

Whether striking a new business partnership or building a coalition government, you can benefit from these tricks of the trade. Two veteran negotiators share their strategies for forging and maintaining successful long-term relationships.READ»

Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash
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Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash

The Fast Company staff offers five from-the-hip ideas of organizations that could use Obama's chunk of change to make a massive impact. READ»

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The World is in a Crucible, 4 Skills for Rising from the Ashes

When the world is in a crucible, new forms are birthed. The previous order is reshuffled. Some at the top disappear. Visionaries emerge from the periphery. America has long looked to the business world for its visionaries, but some ...READ»

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Battle Plan

Former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters outlines nine strategies for understanding, fighting, and defeating the new enemy. Rule #1: Culture is king.READ»

What's the News About the Nightly News?

This month, Anne exchanges email with Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor, NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw.READ»

Strange iPods May Be Difficult to Repair

You might have already heard about the “iPods for Democracy” program, a distribution of iPod knockoffs as some kind of goodwill propaganda effort sponsored by an American organization called Voice for Humanity. READ»

Prince Harry: Courageous Matt Drudge: Inexcusable

As I've written before...people shock the hell out of me! It happened again. Irresponsible journalism set a new standard yesterday when Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report published the news of Prince Harry's location on the ...READ»

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Top 20 Reactions From Pundits and Politicians on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is a lightning rod of debate. Here are the best quotes from the maelstrom.READ»

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Let's Fix What's Broken

Letter from the editors.READ»

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Boomtown, U.S.A.

Far from the front lines of combat, there is a place where people do the unlikeliest work imaginable. Here is the story of the men and women of McAlester, Oklahoma, who run the factory that makes virtually every non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal.READ»

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The Leading Edge - No way to be a Lady or President

Maybe a woman president is an idea whose time has not come When a man comes off overbearing to the point of being an a**hole, you can still find something to respect about him, even if you don't like him. When a woman comes ...READ»

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Implications of Mumbai terror attack ...

Some thing is needed to be done soon, else it might get too late!READ»