Over 4,000 robots are currently deployed on the ground in Iraq and by October 2006 unmanned aircraft had flown 400,000 flight hours. Currently there is always a human in the loop to decide on the use of lethal force. However, this is set to change with the US giving priority to autonomous weapons - robots that will decide on where, when and who to kill.
In Africa, where experts are particularly worried about a lethal collision between TB and AIDS, only six countries provided information.
"We really don't know what the situation is in Africa," Raviglione said. "If multi-drug resistant TB has penetrated Africa and coincides with AIDS, there's bound to be a disaster."
All U.S. children aged from six months up to 18 should be immunized every year against influenza, a panel of federal vaccine advisers said on Wednesday.
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Gasoline prices, which for months lagged the big run-up in the price of oil, are suddenly rising quickly, with some experts fearing they could hit $4 a gallon by spring. Diesel is hitting new records daily and oil closed at an all-time high on Tuesday of $100.88 a barrel.
"We can never go back," Landahl told the newspaper. "If we do, our children will be removed, as the German government says they are the property of the state now."
The newspaper report cited a multitude of families fleeing Germany and taking up residence in the United Kingdom "to escape a law introduced by Hitler. Homeschooling has been illegal in Germany since it was outlawed in 1938," the newspaper said. "Hitler wanted the Nazi state to have complete control of young minds."
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Quote for Today
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left.
No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.