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...Coming on top of the system's failure to pass two out of three basic tests in the past year, the intelligence assessment will likely prompt President Clinton to fudge - he won't kill the program, but he may simply leave it on life support for his successor to determine its fate. But Governor Bush is a lot more bullish on missile defense, charging that the limited system currently on offer is inadequate, and that only a comprehensive interceptor system capable of neutralizing all threats, whether from Iraq or from Russia, can protect America. That's essentially a reprise...
...those arguments speak to the dove in Clinton, the report also warns that despite North Korea's suspension of its missile program and efforts at diplomatic rapprochement, it remains capable of deploying a missile that could threaten the U.S. a lot sooner than 2015, which is when the spy agencies agree the U.S. potentially becomes vulnerable to missile threats from states such as Iran and Iraq. And in a second, unclassified report released to Congress Wednesday, the CIA reports that Russian firms are helping Iran develop its missile capability, while China continues to provide such assistance to Pakistan. In other...
Scientists at the Pentagon's COMBAT FEEDING PROGRAM in Natick, Mass., say the chip could also carry "nutraceuticals." Those are pharmaceutically enhanced foods to better performance, improve autoimmune responses or cut combat-related stress. Now, if only they could make them in sour-cream-and-onion flavor...
Enter a computer program called SPICE (simulation program for integrated circuit evaluation), which was developed at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s. SPICE allowed engineers to analyze their electronic circuits and predict, more or less accurately, how they would work before they were built. There would always be bugs to iron out, but at least the program pointed chip designers in the right direction...
Arkin is developing a similar program he calls bio/SPICE that he hopes will do for the cell what SPICE did for the chip. His first targets are simple bacteria. "They're still complicated enough that we get depressed," Arkin admits with a laugh. But he has already had some success grouping reactions together by the kinds of jobs they do. And, sure enough, some of them bear a remarkable resemblance to the gates and switches of an electronic circuit...