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Researchers Plan to Simulate Movements of 300 Million AmericansResearchers from Virginia Tech are developing a computer simulation that matches the movements of all 300 million people in towns across the US. The team hopes that the model will help them understand the spread of contagious diseases, fads, and traffic flows. Currently, the researchers' model ...
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Commentary: How social media shared pain and rage of Mumbai - CNN.comDina Mehta is an ethnographer, social media consultant and blogger based in Mumbai, India; she recounts how social networks channeled the sadness and rage of the attacks into action - I celebrated my 42nd birthday on November 26. We were thinking of stepping out for a coffee at the Taj hotel ...
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National Infrastructures as Complex Interactive NetworksThe increasing complexity and interconnectedness of energy, telecommunications, transportation, and financial infrastructures pose new challenges for secure, reliable management and operation. No single entity has complete control of these multi-scale, distributed, highly interactive networks, ...
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Presidential Rivals' Visions Differ on Unleashing InnovationFor decades, the United States dominated the technological revolution sweeping the globe. The nation’s science and engineering skills produced vast gains in productivity and wealth, powered its military and made it the de facto world leader. Today, the dominance is eroding. In 2002, the ...
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Energy versus Water: Solving Both Crises Together: Scientific AmericanWater is needed to generate energy. Energy is needed to deliver water. Both resources are limiting the other—and both may be running short. Is there a way out? In June the state of Florida made an unusual announcement: it would sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the corps’s plan to ...
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The Panic of '08: What made investors run for the exits?PhysOrg.com: 'In a few months, I expect to see the stock market much higher than today,' Irving Fisher, America's most illustrious economist, predicted in the middle of October 1929. Two weeks later, the Dow Jones index fell by 23 percent over two days.
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An elegant solution |Ed Callaghan is homeless, yet lives in what used to be one of New York's finest hotels. David Chater on America's answer to the UK hostels labelled 'ghettoes of desperation'.
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Harnessing the Political Power of Online Social Networks and User-Generated ContentIn July 2006, a Web site called MySpace.com, originally used as a way for bands and music lovers to connect online, became the most popular Web site in the United States. Bigger than Google. Bigger than MSN or Yahoo. Bigger than Amazon. Social networking officially arrived for most of mainstream ...
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U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES ROLES IN ASYMMETRIC WARFAREA Master's thesis from Fort Leavenworth that discusses the power of the asymmetric warfare that stopped the Roman Empire in its tracks, drawing comparisons between the position of the Romans and that of modern-day America. The technological dominance of the US military is seen as a catalyst for ...
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Organizing - people, power and changeOrganizers challenge people to act on behalf of their shared values and interests. They lead by developing the relationships, understanding, and actions that enable people to gain new understanding of their interests, new resources, and new capacity to use these resources on behalf of their ...
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