TechnologyFebruary 22, 2008 5:48 am

There isn’t anyone inside this six-and-half-ton beast, getting off on smashing through crappy 80s cars. No, the Army’s latest baby, built by Mellon University’s Robotics Engineering Center, is a robot. The Crusher navigates (and destroys) autonomously and will climb four-foot "steps" as easy as it tears up a hill. Apparently other vehicles in their

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International 5:44 am

CURRY: You don ’t agree with that? It has nothing do with the economy, the war—spending on the war? BUSH: I don’t think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs…because we’re buying equipment, and people are working.

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Environment 4:45 am

The sight of a lake at the bottom of the ocean is simply amazing. Brine pools are large areas of brine on the ocean basin. These pools are concentrations of water having an extremely high salinity as compared to the surrounding ocean, caused by the motion of large salt deposits through salt tectonics.

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Technology, International 4:45 am

Watch as General Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (and, apparently, Jack Bauer’s old brother) shows how the Navy Aegis missile launches and successfully destroys the rogue spy satellite. Th kinetic force attack has been a complete success and the world can rest at peace now. Until the asteroid hits.

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