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Corporal Rubin's gallant actions in close contact with the enemy and unyielding courage and bravery while a prisoner of war are in the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army.

[Researchers reporting in Nature] planted two saplings of a common Amazonian cedar tree (Cedrela odorata) inside each garden near the base of an ant-infested D. hirsuta tree.

A sticky insect barrier was applied to one cedar sapling to prevent ants reaching it, while the other sapling was left untreated.

Worker ants immediately attacked the untreated samplings by injecting formic acid from their poison glands into the leaves, which began to to die within 24 hours. ...

But cedars treated with the insect barrier thrived.

The results rule out one of the main theories of devil's gardens formation, known as allelopathy. Under this process, trees release toxic secretions that kill competing plants.

Air Force Space Command's offensive and defensive counterspace unit responsible for operating space control capabilities to rapidly achieve flexible and versatile space superiority in support of theater campaigns. The unit participates in the evaluation and operation of counterspace technologies to meet combatant commander requirements.

Another Intelsat Dark: Cause Unknown

Intelsat, this January, reported their Intelsat 804 (see: footprint, Lyngsat, specs & Lockheed Martin), failed in orbit, the second such failure for the satellite operator in less than two months. The satellite was uninsured.

Intelsat said their IS-804 suffered "a sudden and unexpected electrical power system anomaly" Friday evening, rendering the satellite totally and permanently unusable. Many customers of the satellite had been moved to other satellites by Sunday evening.

"Intelsat currently believes that there is no connection between this event and [the IA-7 satellite failure] less then two months earlier, since the two satellites were manufactured by different companies and their designs are different," the statement said.

The manufacturer of the Intelsat 804 was Lockheed Martin, which used their AS-7000 satellite plaform [sic]. Meanwhile, Intelsat's IA-7 satellite that failed in November, was built by a different company (Space Systems/Loral) and had a completely different, 1300 space platform.

On November 28, 2004, Intelsat-7 went dark. It also experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical distribution anomaly".

The symposium proceedings will also be webcasted, videocasted, and (of course) podcasted. Addresses for the various feeds will be announced soon.

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OUR ANCESTORS were as tall as we are, contrary to popular belief. Over the past five millennia the average height of men in Britain has remained stable at about 170cm (5ft 7in), and that of women at 160cm (5ft 3in). ...

In the abandoned medieval village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire, the churchyard has yielded hundreds of skeletons for analysis. There "ten-year-olds were around 8in shorter than children today: by the time they were fully grown they were nearly as tall as modern adults."

A study by Charlotte Roberts and Margaret Cox, drawing together evidence of stature from skeletons across the country, shows that adult heights in both sexes have remained constant since the Neolithic era.

[In November] Hayabusa will gingerly manoeuvre itself to within a few metres (yards) of Itokawa and then fire a projectile weighing about five grammes (1/5th of an ounce) into the surface at a speed of 300 metres (325 feet) per second, or around 1,800 kms (1,125 miles) an hour.

If the arithmetic is right and luck is on Hayabusa's side, material will be kicked out of the asteroid and some of it will shoot up a slender funnel.

The pellets are scheduled to be shot at three different sites in the asteroid, with each tiny sample being carefully stowed away onboard.

The spacecraft will also deploy a little robot, about the size of a large beer can, called Minerva, which for a couple of days will "hop" around the asteroid's surface, taking pictures and measuring the temperature.

Then it will be time to head for home. In June 2007, Hayabusa's precious payload, of just 100 milligrammes, should land in the Australian Outback.