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US Senate Armed Services Committee produces markup limiting DoD purchase of biofuels and prohibiting construction of biorefineries

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Afghanistan). being obligated or spent for the production or sole purchase of. being obligated or spent for the production or sole purchase of. The bill authorizes $498.0 million more than the President’s request for the base budget of DOD and $301.0 The bill authorizes $431.0

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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The Kremlin, trying to avoid famine at home, sent representatives to the United States to purchase American wheat, corn, oats, rye, and soybeans. As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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In this country a lot of the new cars are purchased by higher income households and a typical modest income household is driving a used car.The typical American that is buying a new car, which costs on average $28,000, isn’t currently driving a car that costs $2,000.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

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Plus I had purchased bananas, oranges and musk melon outside the railway station. Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. Our Rajdhani tickets, for some strange reason, did not include meals. Managed to coax the attendant to get me a black tea.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft,” wrote Norman Augustine, formerly Undersecretary of the Army, back in 1984. Behold the modern-day fighter plane: the hypertrophied product of the longest arms race since the days of the dreadnaught. “In

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