Washington, Feb. 8 : U. S. President Barack Obama has called on America's defence chiefs to review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge.
According to a report in the Dawn newspaper, some senior Democrats have expressed concern about the military preparing to send up to 30,000 extra troops without a coherent plan or exit strategy.
The Pentagon is set to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates postponed the decision after Obama raised some questions about the lack of strategy.
Washington, Feb 8 : Wondering why the bloke you went out with last night has not called back yet? Don't console yourself by thinking he's shy, the truth is he's just not into you.
A researcher has delved into the female psyche to uncover why women pursue men that are just not that into them.
According to a Loyola University Health System relationship expert, women tend to ignore the signs that clearly indicate: "he's just not that into you," but try harder to change the man's feelings.
Washington, February 8 : While scientists are trying to develop electronic implants that dispense medicines automatically or via a wireless medical network, a group of Aussie and American researchers have warned that such devices may have certain security risks.
YanYan Wang and Carey Thaldorf at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and their colleague John Haynes of Charles Darwin University in Darwin, point out that any wireless communications technology may fall under the generic umbrella of hacking, including eavesdropping, jamming, and tampering.
They say that someone with malicious intent might spoof the sensor outputs of a Remote Intelligent Drug Delivery System (RIDDS).
Lake Forest, Illinois - Western Digital is the first out of the gate in the race to produce a hard drive offering two terabytes (TB) of storage.
The WD20EADS, a 3.5-inch drive with 32 megabytes (MB) of cache, is part of the WD Caviar Green series and will be available in stores for around 300 dollars, the company reports. Four storage disks with a capacity of 500 gigabytes (GB) each are housed inside the casing.
Los Angeles - The league-leading Los Angeles Lakers tweaked their roster Saturday, dealing little-used Serbian forward Vladimir Radmanovic to the Charlotte Bobcats for Adam Morrison and Shannon Brown, a pair of young, unproven players.
It marks the second straight campaign with an in-season trade for the Lakers (40-9), who last week lost starting center Andrew Bynum for at least two months with a torn knee ligament. En route to the 2008 NBA Finals, they dealt Brian Cook to Orlando for swingman Trevor Ariza.
Washington - The US Senate spent much of Saturday debating the economic stimulus package on which lawmakers had reached a compromise a day earlier in a bid to pull the United States out of recession.
A bipartisan group of senators put forward a tentative deal late Friday on a 780-billion-dollar recovery plan. The compromise would strip some 150 billion dollars out of an earlier version of the legislation before the Senate.
Washington, Feb. 8 : U. S. President Barack Obama has called on America's defence chiefs to review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge.
Lake Forest, Illinois - Western Digital is the first out of the gate in the race to produce a hard drive offering two terabytes (TB) of storage.
Los Angeles - The league-leading Los Angeles Lakers tweaked their roster Saturday, dealing little-used Serbian forward Vladimir Radmanovic to the Charlotte Bobcats for Adam Morrison and Shannon Brown, a pair of young, unproven players.
Washington - The US Senate spent much of Saturday debating the economic stimulus package on which lawmakers had reached a compromise a day earlier in a bid to pull the United States out of recession.
