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MANCHESTER - A woman hit her boyfriend in the head with a claw hammer while he was asleep on the couch, police said. Natasha Hamer, 32, of 452 Pine St., is under arrest, charged with first-degree assault in the attack on Ryan Defabio, 23, of 370 Amherst St. Defabio was treated at the Elliot Hospital for the injury.

At this week's National Grocers Association convention in Las Vegas, celebrity chef Philippe Parola was touting his new favorite fish. '[It has] 70-percent more Omega-3 than in catfish and tilapia," an animated Parola told an assembled crowd at his booth. "No mercury because it's a filter fish."

Air Force Research Laboratory-funded researchers at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used in defeating enemy electronics. A vital component of military radar systems since World War II, a magnetron is a kind of vacuum tube that serves as the frequency source in microwave ovens, radar systems, and other high-power microwave circuits. The newly devised technology--which is more compact, exhibits faster start-up, and demonstrates higher peak and average power than current devices--should enable higher-power, higher-frequency operation and, thus, improved potential for jamming and defeat of adversarial systems. While basic magnetron design has changed...

EADS Astrium engineers are working on an orbital solar power concept that they think will be competitive with other technologies but safer to use. Solar power would be collected in space and beamed to Earth using high-power infrared lasers so the energy could be used in remote regions, areas hit by natural disasters and other places where terrestrial power is not readily available. Astrium Chief Technical Officer Robert Laine says the concept offers certain advantages compared to competing technologies such as microwaves—notably a much smaller health risk. The idea of using IR lasers for energy transmission has been around for...

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EM gun on the brink of fruition for land and sea applications After more than two decades of research, the science and technology behind electromagnetic (EM) rail guns has now advanced sufficiently to allow practical exploration of novel military applications, according to Dr Harry Fair, director of the Institute of Advanced Technology (IAT) at the University of Texas (UT). Speaking at the IQPC Future Artillery 2005 conference held in London in March, he told delegates that in the field of pulsed-power supplies, capacitor technology can now be considered mature, but still requires an excessive volume for land applications. Pulsed alternators...

I've recently discovered several websites that discuss Scalar Electromagnetic (EM) Weapons. Supposedly the Russians have perfected this technology and are years ahead of the US military. Does anyone have any comments or information to verify or refute these claims? Very scary stuff if true. Here's a link to one of the websites: Scalar EM Weapons

Gulf War II promises new weapons, technology By LISA HOFFMAN Scripps Howard News Service January 06, 2003 - During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, U.S. cruise missiles debuted, wowing the world with their ability to whiz around city street corners and zero in on one particular building, all after being launched from hundreds of miles away. During the 1998 war against Serbia over Kosovo, the Predator reconnaissance drone flew its maiden combat flight, ushering in a revolutionary new era of unmanned warplanes. If America goes to war with Iraq, the Pentagon is certain to again premiere an array of weapons...