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China developing `paralysis warfare'By Brian HsuSTAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Oct 08, 2003,Page 1 China's military is changing its strategy from deterrence to pre-emption, planning to use "paralysis warfare" against Taiwan in the future, the Ministry of National Defense said in a report delivered to the legislature's defense committee yesterday. "Paralysis warfare features Web-based information warfare, saturation ballistic missile attacks, joint precision strikes and seizure of the enemy's capital city by special operations units," the report says. "Such tactics will become a major option for the Chinese military in its choice of modes of attack against Taiwan in the future," it says....

SCIENCE GATHERING PREDICTSA BIG FUTURE FOR SMALL TECHBy Mike Toner Atlanta Journal-Constitution BOSTON, Feb. 15, 2002 – In the world of headline-grabbing scientific advances, the official "breakthrough of the year" hasn't exactly made the public pulse race. The journal Science's coveted accolade for 2001 was bestowed on some little things – very little things. But in the small, small world of nanotechnology, reports that five laboratories in the United States and Europe last year built the first molecular-sized circuits loom as large as the harnessing of steam once did for the Industrial Revolution. Researchers at the annual meeting of the ...