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IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Willie D. Jones	Safer Driving in The Dead of Night Night vision systems use infrared sensors to let drivers see as much as three or four times farther ahead and help them quickly distinguish among objects.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Robert W. Lucky	Remote Control Delving into the world of remote control hackers, this author/engineer develops a new appreciation for these humble devices.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006	Yahooligan An interview with Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo research guru, on the search company's current focus.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Glenn Zorpette	Working in a War Zone Working in Iraq isn't for everybody. Nevertheless, over the past three years, a few thousand engineers of many nationalities have gone to work on the country's massive, $60 billion reconstruction. Here's a sample of what they encounter.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006	A Weed Grows in Chile A lot of engineering gets done within the climate-controlled, fluorescent-lit confines of the modern office park. But engineers also go to great lengths in pursuit of new technology, as Jean Kumagai learned during a trip to Chile's Atacama Desert last fall.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	A Better Anthrax Screener? A newly marketed anthrax detector that originated in the U.S. space program promises to halve the detection time of the system currently used by the U.S. Postal Service.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Strauss et al.	Unsafe At Any Airspeed? Is it safe to use cellphones on airplanes? The U.S. FCC thinks it may be. But here is proof that cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk to maintaining proper airline instrumentation than you think.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Erico Guizzo	How Brazil Spun the Atom While Iran grabs headlines, Brazil is quietly, and without belligerence, preparing its centrifuges to start enriching uranium. But the question many are asking is, how well does the Brazilian centrifuge work compared with its competitors?
Chemistry World February 28, 2006 Jon Evans	Magnetic Appeal of Shape-Change Polymer Polymer scientists developed polymers that change shape in response to a magnetic field by incorporating magnetic iron(III)oxide nanoparticles into a shape-memory polyetherurethane compound known as TFX.
Chemistry World February 27, 2006 Michael Gross	A DNA Switch for RNA Folding Researchers have equipped a large RNA domain with a DNA switch, which they say can fold or unfold the RNA molecule at will.
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