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Defense Sec. Robert Gates Plays a Round of Word Association
On Sunday night, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. One of the clips that wasn’t featured on the broadcast was a word association game that 60 Minutes correspondent Katie Couric played with Gates. Gates joined the CIA in 1966 and, except for a hiatus during …
How to Lose Friends and Gain Votes
Yesterday we told you that Congress accidentally slipped in a few extra dollars in order to buy some fancy jet airplanes that will be used to shuttle them around the globe. Now we find out that Congress was even more generous than we originally thought. The House Appropriations Committee put …
You Just Paid $10M for a Remote Controlled Bird
There are some government-funded projects that make sense, then there’s this. US shells out $10M for unmanned aircraft that can perch like a bird Believe it or not, this funding is not a joke. Experts say the ability to actually fly in and perch like a bird will be one …