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Neuroscience the new face of warfare: experts
LONDON (Reuters) - Directed energy weapons that use wave beams to cause pain, and electrical brain stimulation that boosts a soldier's combat ability - it may sound like science fiction warfare, but experts say advances in neuroscience mean it's on the horizon.
Southwest Book Reviews
In 2006, Beth Alvarado published a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, "Not A Matter of Love." A graduate of Stanford and a writing teacher at the University of Arizona, her second book is just out with the University of Iowa Press. Ann Cummins has this review:
I've heard it said that these days, there aren't any travelers only tourists. The tourist collects memories. The traveler engages the world and comes home changed. Judging from the essays and poems in Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness, Laura Kelly is a pilgrim of the old order, one for whom the road is a path to self-discovery.
Ann Cummin's reviews Brady Udall's The Lonely Polygamist
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KNAU and Arizona News
The architect of some of the toughest laws in the nation aimed at illegal immigrants was ousted from office Tuesday by voters in his Mesa district. Arizona Public Radio's Howard Fischer reports.
Local Headlines
The Flagstaff City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a document that could change-- literally-- the shape of the city. For the past several years, the staff in the Department of Planning has been re-writing the city's zoning code, and they've come up with a final plan For most of us, it won't be the most interesting read, but Roger Eastman tells Arizona Public Radio's Mark Bevis that the document is groundbreaking.