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One of the principal contractors to the U.S Department of Defense, Boeing Company, has now unveiled the next generation of fully unmanned, reconnaissance platform called, the Phantom Eye. This one of a kind pilot less aircraft is powered by hydrogen and the company has stated that, it can cruise at an altitude of 65,000 feet and due to the nature of [...]

Temporal Lobe damage can cause drastic changes in behavior and if it affects young children, it can be devastating. Let us take a look at Iqbal Pasha’s case. The boy was brought to the clinic when he was around 14 years old by his parents. The parents were worried that he does not understand anything and that his grades are failing. The father brought [...]

Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan has less to do with military action than ‘turning the war over to the Afghans.’ ‘The challenge lies in leveling the playing field by inserting operatives into the Taliban. Since the Afghan intelligence services are inherently insecure, they can’t carry out such missions. American personnel bring technical intelligence [...]

There is now such a thing as the Bush administration’s Torture 13. They belong to the nefarious circle by virtue of authorizing torture to be systematically employed in the name of information gathering post-9/11 for the sake of intelligence. They carried out the strategy, as well as legally justified it. All these point to the creation of a [...]

Most people are reluctant to read. The downside of this is poor knowledge. People generally do not have the interest to read because they feel discouraged by their inability to comprehend what they read. Reading comprehension skills can whet the appetite for reading because they encourage the person to learn more and more, since he already gradually [...]

Everybody in the civilized world reads but not everyone understands what he reads. Communication and information would be much more efficient if reading comprehension skills are enhanced in individuals. In this day and age when there is a glut of information simultaneously going on around from a wide variety of sources, anyone who has the capacity [...]

Educational attainment comes to those who have had the opportunity and material resource backing to go to school and get an education. The more financially capable can get better education from better schools that are, more often than not, more expensive. Quality has its price. The strength of educational attainment lies in the fact that it gives an [...]

With all the terrorist threats of late, we can hardly blame India for being security-conscious these days. Now, it has turned to its roster of officials and banned them from using social networking sites such as Orkut, Ibibo, and Facebook, as well as file-sharing sites like Flickr, Picasa, and Kazaa. To top that, officials are also prevented from using [...]

A former Delta Force commander whose unit hunted down Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan in 2001 has written a book about his insights from his thankless job entitled ‘Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man.’ The Delta Force commander is so right to say that it doesn’t [...]