Some Morning News (7#) -

Future Glow: How many lightening bugs would it take
to illuminate the average small ranch home or cottage?

Not to worry, because scientists are not
experimenting with lightening bugs right now.

At the moment, they are experimenting with OLEDs: organic light emitting diodes. And they are planning to start replacing our traditional light bulbs with flat illuminating panels made of these diodes as early as 2012.

# Banger Balls Bomber: British security sources are concerned that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was seduced and groomed by the Qaeda Cult while he was a student in London. But how could that happen?

# Masquerade: When robots dream
of digital ayatollahs, Life is a masquerade . . .

Ahmadinejad: opposition rallies a "masquerade"

# Virtual Protest and the "Spinternet" -
Paradoxical effects of the Internet on Iran.

# Gene Sharp and Mohsen Sazegara

# Clashes reported on campus of Azad University
in Tehran Tuesday and other recent developments.

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