For a decade now, the Environmental Protection Agency has been using a provision of the Clean Air Act to force dirty, older power plants to clean up.

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Its ambitions to be a maritime power in East Asia have led it to concentrate on upgrading its air force and navy.

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The Air Force is working to see if it can develop a low-power quantum computer using holograms and off the shelf parts.

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In fact the Air Force is so pleased with the project that it hopes to double the power it gets from solar in the near future.

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Klein, according to diplomats, said that the operation would be backed by NATO air power and that he preferred the troops to have a mandate to use force, if needed, under Chapter 7 of the U.N.

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