~e; electromagnetism in the news

[human being <human@electronetwork.org>]

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// top story:

Study: Euro getting under people's skin

"...The problem, according to the study, is the bi-metallic  
construction of the coins, which are used in 12 European countries.  
Where the two alloys meet, salt in sweat causes an electrical current.  
The current corrodes the metals, similar to the corrosion that happens  
on terminals of an automobile battery..."

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020917/4453462s.htm

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Diamond Film Could Form Basis of High-Power Electronics

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=00008006-0C9D- 
1D79-90FB809EC5880000

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Working toward a lead-free PC
By Michael Kanellos

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Getting the lead out of personal computers is  
possible, but it won't likely be commonplace until the middle of the  
decade as technical details get smoothed out.

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-957641.html?tag=dd.ne.dtx.nl-sty.0

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Designing AUTOnomy

One of the designers of a radical new fuel-cell-car concept explains  
what was done

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=00034FE5-BA99- 
1D80-90FB809EC5880000

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Ups and Downs of Wireless Access

"My laptop is all dressed up for WiFi with nowhere to go.

That wasn’t the case this time last week when I was able to wander at  
11 mpbs from a concrete  bunker during a conference in the bottom of  
Aspen’s St. Regis Hotel. Some people bring home T-shirts as souvenirs.  
I went for the wireless PCMCIA card instead. I wasn’t alone as other  
conference goers succumbed to the lure of the WiFi siren aka Jim  
Selby (Real Audio link offers an explanation of his work on NPR), an  
Aspen resident whose mission is to spread the WiFi word to all..."

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/kramer/1030493269.php

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Nanotech funding bill in the wings

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958089.html

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On a Single Chip, Intel Joins Realms of Analog and Digital

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/technology/16CHIP.html?todaysheadlines

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Intel unfurls experimental 3D transistors

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-958149.html?tag=dd.ne.dtx.nl-sty.0

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Secrets of Digital Creativity Revealed in Miniatures

"..."Codedoc," an online exhibition of digital artworks that focuses on  
[an artwork's] underlying computer code, is a daring endeavor. It asks  
viewers without any programming knowledge to step back from the  
animated lines and interactive elements of computer art and instead  
consider the geeky techniques that digital artists use to create those  
works. This would be like studying the artist's brush and paints and  
not the painting."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/arts/design/ 
16ARTS.html?todaysheadlines

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With White House Approval, E.P.A. Pollution Report Omits Global Warming  
Section

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/politics/15CLIM.html?todaysheadlines

-- // related:

UK homes face huge new threat from floods

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=333306

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// special oil section:

When it's over, who gets the oil?
Dan Morgan and David B. Ottaway The Washington Post
http://www.iht.com/articles/70789.html

OPEC Feels Pressure to Produce More Oil
By NEELA BANERJEE
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/business/16OPEC.html?todaysheadlines

Europe to Boost Security of Oil and Gas Supply
"Cooperation must take place with the producer countries and the  
transit countries with regard to the storage of oil and gas. "In this  
connection, the dialogue between the EU and Russia is the first model  
of its kind," de Palacio said."
http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-11-01.asp


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200 SOVIET NUKES LOST IN UKRAINE

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/09/13/36519.html

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Scientists Prove Atomic Memory Concept
"...using silicon atoms in place of the 1s and 0s of traditional  
computing..."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=75&ncid=75&e=3&u=/nf/ 
20020916/tc_nf/19405

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// one symbolic example of the relation of all things EM... from buffalo
// NY to Pakistan and a satellite phone intercept/trace with similar  
results...

Intercepted phone call helped raise U.S. alert status Information said  
to originate with alleged N.Y. cell

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020917/4453429s.htm

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// amazing experiment... $500 USD for a Group Pulse 4x the speed of  
light...

Speed of light broken with basic lab kit

"Electric signals can be transmitted at least four times faster than  
the speed of light using only basic equipment that would be found in  
virtually any college science department..."

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992796

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