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The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a virus onto a computer and obtaining encryption keys. Using this software, known as ?Magic Lantern,? agents can read data that has been scrambled, a tactic that is employed by criminals to hide information and evade law enforcement. The best snooping technology that the FBI currently uses, the controversial software called Carnivore, has been useless against suspects who encrypt their files.
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China is planning to send a man to the moon by 2005, as part of its space program. The mission is part of Beijing?s plans to join the United States and Russia as the only nations to have sent humans into space. This is occurring at the same time that both Russia and NASA are cutting costs and reducing the number of humans in space.

China?s first satellite was launched in 1970. In 1999 and January 2001 it successfully launched the ?Shenzou? unmanned spacecraft. A monkey, a dog, a rabbit and snails were sent into orbit aboard the second Shenzou launch, and scientists say that more unmanned tests will be necessary. ?We must be sure that the astronauts are 100 percent safe in outer space after launching,? says Liang Sili of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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President Bush today demanded that Iraq allow UN weapons inspectors who were expelled in 1998 to return to the country and complete their work. When asked what would happen if Iraqi president Saddam Hussein refused, Bush stated, “he’ll find out.”

In addition, a number of other nations have been mentioned as possible targets of the US war on terrorism, most specifically Somalia and North Korea. President Bush served notice today to all countries that support terrorism that they “would be held accountable.”
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Laura Yuran and her 11-year-old son Jonathon were gazing at the Leonid meteor shower early last Sunday morning when they were almost hit by chunks of the space rocks.

They were watching the meteor shower outside their Indiana home at 4 a.m. when what felt like hailstones began to hit them. As Laura walked toward the house to get her husband Tom, a chunk of rock slammed to the ground near where she had been standing just moments before.

?It went, ?Boom!? and I screamed,? Laura says. ?Part of it hit the driveway and the second part was embedded in the ground. I was afraid to touch it.?
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