In 1940 President Roosevelt's science adviser, Vannevar Bush, appointed Loomis to head the top-secret "Rad Lab" at MIT.

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Tapwave has made little secret about its intention to compete head-to-head with Nokia's N-Gage device, which is set to debut next month, but which has received considerable negative buzz in the runup to release.

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Other important world stories saw the head of the Israeli secret service forced to resign after a bungled assassination attempt and the top bureaucrat in the French island of Corsica murdered by separatists.

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The Court of Cassation also ruled that five senior Italian secret service agents - including the former head of the country's military intelligence agency - should be tried for their role in the kidnapping.

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This latest change of military guard follows the dismissal of Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's powerful secret police.

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In a statement declaring the doctorate invalid and withdrawing it from Ms Schavan, the faculty head Bruno Bleckmann said they had "decided by secret ballot, by 12 votes to two, with one abstention".

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Hike through Nags Head Woods, known locally as one of the best-kept secret on the Outer Banks.

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There is a full-scale drama that plays out in our head, assuming that everyone we know will have a judgment about this money secret.

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Between 2002 and 2004, Francisco Correa made secret cash payments to Barcenas, acting as a sort of lobbyist for businessman Alfonso Garcia Pozuelo, head of construction company Constructora Hispanica.

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