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jcr writes "I stand corrected. I thought that Apple had long since passed the million-unit mark for iPhone sales, and was holding off on releasing figures until the next quarterly earnings report. Turns out, they just got there.

-jcr"
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/09/10iphone.html

Medical researchers in Britain have succeeded in growing a heart valve from adult stem cells taken from bone marrow. The research is being reported in the journal of the Royal Society today. Growing a heart value from your own cells means that tissue rejection isn't an issue.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=479481&in_page_id=1965

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a combination battery/capacitor by infusing carbon nanotubes and electrolytes into a paper substrate. The material can be folded, rolled up, or molded to any convenient shape with no effect on power capacity. Operating temperature range is -100 to 300 degrees Farenheit, which beats any other battery I've ever heard of.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/rpi-bbs080907.php

cmholm writes "After fighting the Federal Government for years over accusations that it outsourced highly classified military night vision technology to Singapore, China, and the UK as a cost saving measure, ITT faced the music to the tune of $100 million. A key point in the NYT article, something virtually all military contractors are constantly reminding their employees: "There's not much point in outspending the rest of the world on military technology if countries like China can get it on the cheap.""

Anonymous Coward writes "Study reveals the successful results of the first human trial using mesenchymal stem cells for treating heart attacks (myocardial infarction)."

OK, yes, this is not an actual school. And it is not public, but my aversion to school is not limited to public schools.

Check out these crackmonkeys, teaching their children that private property is evil, by using Legos.

Into their coffee shops and houses, the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys -- assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society -- a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive. As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.

These teachers vote to take away my property rights. This is the definition of injustice and oppression. And they are creating conformists to follow their illegitimate lead:

We ... discussed our beliefs about our role as teachers in raising political issues with young children. We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity -- whether we interceded or not. We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children's understandings from a perspective of social justice.

Bottom line: people who think that taking away basic human rights is "justice" have no business teaching children, or anyone else. They are thoroughly incapable.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's new "Student Extortion Letters" are now available online. This is part of the big 4 record labels to get colleges and universities to act as their enforcers and collection agents."