Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, project leaders envision "smart underwear" that measures a soldier's sweat for warning signs and automatically trigger an appropriate medical dosage.

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In a crisis, the temptation would always be to hold these missiles on a hair trigger, to be launched on warning of an incoming attack rather than lost to an enemy strike.

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Included was a warning: drought and crop failures could trigger major population movements and lead to political instability.

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Still, it should have been fairly obvious that this rule was going to trigger the inevitable firestorm, particularly when the leadership of the Catholic Church has been warning for months that they were not going to let this one go by without a fight.

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