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...Vivek Ramaswamy took a $50,000 [Soros] scholarship ... despite being wealthy... [A]sked during a July appearance ... about the scholarship, claimed he took the money because he could not afford the Yale law school fees. But the explanation was ripped to shreds by MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan on Thursday, leaving a visibly squirming Ramaswamy struggling to change the subject. 'You say you are anti-identity politics, anti-Affirmative Action, ... 'And your defense for that is that you didn't have the money to pay for law school. 'Even though you had already made over a million dollars at the time.' ... Hasan,...

NEWARK, Oct. 12 Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) are putting a 21st century spin on a 19th century technology to make the nation’s ports and coastal waters safer. Airships — known today mainly for advertising flyovers at football games — are the core of a new coastal surveillance system in development for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) of the U.S. Department of Defense. But the new models will bear little resemblance to their predecessors. These High Altitude Stratospheric Airships (HASAs) will be unmanned, stationary platforms 14 to 16 miles above the ground. At 500 feet long and...