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Submission + - Japan launches an aircraft carrier (defensetech.org)

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PHAEDRU5

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @12:01PM

PHAEDRU5 writes: "'The Japanese Navy — officially the Maritime Self-Defense Force — has launched an "aircraft carrier." At least the Hyuga, launched at Yokohama on August 23, looks like an aircraft carrier — she has a flush flight deck and a large, starboard-side island structure...The Hyuga, the largest warship constructed in Japan since World War II, is considered by some observers to be the first step toward the development of a large aircraft carrier.'

Japan's back in the power-projection business."

Submission + - The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma C (democracynow.org)

Submitted by axb2298 on Friday August 03, 2007 @03:16PM

axb2298 writes: Democracy Now (http://www.democracynow.org) is reporting A Salt Lake City lawyer searching for the truth behind his brother's death has uncovered a wealth of new information that could implicate the FBI in the Oklahoma City bombings. The documents he dug up suggest the FBI knew about the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in advance but did little to prevent it.

Submission + - Man Bleeds Green Like Vulcan (11alive.com)

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VE3OGG

on Sunday June 10, 2007 @06:31AM

VE3OGG writes: "While Star Wars might be overtaking Harvard, an individual at Vancouver, British Columbia's St. Paul's Hospital was re-enacting Star Trek, by bleeding green like a Vulcan. The condition, know as sulfhemoglobin "[is] so rare that we don't have a perfect understanding how it happens, but some drug donates a sulphur group that binds to the hemoglobin molecule and prevents it from binding to oxygen," Flexman explains. "And that gives it the green colour." Of course, this isn't quite Vulcan anatomy 101, as it was a copper bonding agent in the Vulcan's blood that caused it's greenish hue."

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