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Could a pill one day slow ageing in humans?Punchstock Rapamycin, a drug commonly used in humans to prevent transplanted organs from being rejected, has been found to extend the lives of mice by up to 14% — even when given to the mice late in life. In flies and worms, drug treatments have been shown to prolong lifespan, but until now, the only robust way to extend life in mammals has been to heavily restrict diet. The researchers caution, however, that using this drug to extend the lifespan of humans might be problematic because it suppresses the immune system —...

Brothers, it is time to help you disappear! No, I have not invented a magic cloak, but DARPA (under bush) invented an anonymizing engine called TOR (www.tor.org) that accomplishes that with your Internet traffic. You can download the following file: http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/dist/tor-im-browser-1.1.12_en-US. exe (Note the extra space between the . and the "exe". Remove that and paste into your browser window for direct down load (DDL). Or, alternately go here for more information (http://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html.en). Now, the .exe link is better because it is a standalone copy of firefox with all the proxies and whatnot configured. All you do is run the...

Democrat Henry Rivera, a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, is expected to head President-elect Barack Obama's FCC transition team, a move that has sparked fear in media circles that the Fairness Doctrine may return to silence conservative talk radio. If reenacted, the "Fairness Doctrine" would require broadcasts over the public airwaves to give equal time to opposing political views. For talk radio, which boomed after the law's repeal in 1987 by building an audience devoted to conservative talk, the law's return would decimate the industry's marketability. Many fear the "Fairness Doctrine" would drive talk radio hosts – like...

The punchline to an old cartoon is "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog," but these days, that's no longer true. It's easier than ever for the government, Web sites and private businesses to track exactly what you do online, know where you've visited, and build up comprehensive profiles about your likes, dislikes and private habits. And with the federal government increasingly demanding online records from sites such as Google and others, your online privacy is even more endangered. But you don't need to be a victim. There are things you can do to keep your surfing habits anonymous...

Iran successfully tests its system of Russian anti-aircraft defence TEHERAN - Iran tested successfully its new system of delivered anti-aircraft defence Russian TOR-M1 less than one month ago by Russia in spite of criticisms of the United States, declared Wednesday a high person in charge military Iranian, quoted by the Isna agency. “We tested successfully the system of anti-aircraft defence TOR-M1 during the operations Saegheh (the lightning)” which began Wednesday morning in the area of the Gulf and at sea of Oman, declared the general Hossein Salami, the commander of the Air Force of the Guards of the revolution....

RUSSIA COMPLETES SAM DELIVERY TO IRAN MOSCOW [MENL] -- Russia has confirmed the completion of anti-aircraft deliveries to Iran. A senior Russian official asserted that Moscow delivered all 29 TOR-M1 mobile, short-range surface-to-air missile systems to Iran in late December 2006. The official confirmed a previous statement by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who reported that the deliveries to Iran had been completed. "Russia has fulfilled its contract obligations and fully completed deliveries of TOR-M1 air defense systems to Iran," Sergei Chemezov, the director of the state arms export agency Rosoboronexport, said on Tuesday. "The systems were delivered in late...

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Friday urged Russia to reconsider its decision to honor its commitment to sell Iran the Tor-M1 air defense missile system. "We would hope that Russia would take a second look at this issue," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told a news briefing. Russia said earlier in the day that it would fulfill a contract to supply its sophisticated Tor-M1 air defense systems to Iran. "Russia has signed a contract with Iran for the supply of Tor-M1 close-range air defense systems to Iran," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said. "The contract will...

Reports: Russia to Sell Missiles to Iran By MIKE ECKEL, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 2, 2005 Russia has agreed to sell more than $1 billion worth of missiles and other defense systems to Iran, Russian news media reported Friday, a move expected to draw a heated reaction from the United States. The Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies cited unidentified sources in the Russian military-industrial complex as saying that Russian and Iranian officials had signed contracts in November that would send up to 30 Tor-M1 missile systems to Iran over the next two years. Interfax said the Tor-M1 system could...

Russia sells anti-missile systems in Iran MOSCOW - Iran signed a contract with Russia on the sale of 29 Russian systems anti-missile Tor M-1, affirmed Friday the financial daily newspaper Russian Vedomosti, quoting sources in Russian military industry. "Iran will defend itself against the United States and Israel with the Russian systems Tor M-1", titrated Vedomosti with the one. According to the sources of the daily newspaper, expressing itself under cover of anonymity, 29 systems' anti-missile Tor M-1 able to intercept cruise missiles and airborne bombs were manufactured by the military factory Koupol with Ijevsk (the Volga) for Greece...

NEWS RELEASE October 3, 2005 Contact: Bob Kahn, Gravity Probe B Public Affairs: (650) 723-2540, kahn@relgyro.stanford.edu Comment: Francis Everitt, Gravity Probe B Principal Investigator: (650) 725-4104, francis@relgyro.stanford.edu Editor Note: Photos and graphics are available on the web at http://einstein.stanford.edu/pao/newspix/hires. Relevant Web URLs: http://einstein.stanford.edu http://www.gravityprobeb.com Putting relativity to the test, NASA's Gravity Probe B experiment is one step away from revealing if Einstein was right Almost 90 years after Einstein postulated his general theory of relativity—our current theory of gravity—scientists have finally finished collecting the data that will put this theory to an experimental test. For the past 17 months, NASA's...

Main Underground Suspect is Released 19:28 Sep 09, '03 / 12 Elul 5763 The alleged "second Jewish underground" appears to be sizzling down to nothing, or at most very little. The main suspect in the case, Sela Tor - about whom the GSS leaked that he was suspected of "murder" - was released this afternoon. No indictment is expected to be served against him. Tor was incarcerated for three weeks, most of the time without being allowed to meet with a lawyer or his family. Seven of the more than a dozen original suspects remain in prison, only two...

Not the best quality picture, but an interesting landform.