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Congress Clears Hotly Contested Bailout Bill

Congress passes complex and highly criticized legislation authorizing $700 billion in government money to shore up the nation's stressed financial industry. The 263-171 vote by the House sends the Senate-passed version to the White House for President Bush's signature. Among many features, the measure would allow the Treasury Department to buy up bad debt from various lending institutions.

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03.10.2008 19:33:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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How to Handle XML Data in PHP

Using APIs in your web application calls for handling streams of raw data. If your program is going to interface with one, you probably want to dirty your hands with XML data first. If you're coding with the PHP programming language, there's a simplified way to keep your XML in line -- the SimpleXML library. Adam DuVander's tutorial runs you through the basics.

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03.10.2008 17:50:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Uncle Sam Opens His Wallet For Amtrak

After ignoring the system for years, President Bush plans to sign a bill providing Amtrak with $13 billion.

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03.10.2008 16:28:17 - Wired: Top Stories

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Mad Men With an Ad Man: Optimedia Edition

Every week on "Mad Men" Don Draper and Roger Sterling lead the men and women at the fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper in creating and designing iconic 1960s ad campaigns in between their chain-smoking, heavy drinking, and round-the-clock womanizing. Looking for a little fact in the fiction of “Mad Men,” Wired.com is asking some of the real ad men (and women) in the industry to talk about the show’s realism and relevance in the world of advertising.

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03.10.2008 14:51:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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House Schedules Second 'Rescue Plan' Vote Today

Rejected once amid public fury about bailing out reckless financiers, a $700 billion rescue package gets a second chance in the House as voters anxiously ponder an economic meltdown that could wipe out their ability to borrow, plunder their savings and put them out of work.

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03.10.2008 14:44:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Fossett Slammed into a Mountain: Search Official

Thirteen months after millionaire thrill-seeker Steve Fossett mysteriously disappeared, authorities finally know what happened to his small single-engine airplane: It slammed straight into a mountain on a cloudy day.

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03.10.2008 13:11:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first place. If we're ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place. Conventional wisdom holds that terrorism is inherently political, and that people become terrorists for political reasons. This is the "strategic" model of terrorism, and it's basically an economic model. It posits that people resort to terrorism when they believe -- rightly or wrongly -- that terrorism is worth it; that is, when they believe the political gains of terrorism minus the political costs are greater than if they engaged in some other, more peaceful form of protest. It's assumed, for example, that people join Hamas to achieve a Palestinian state; that people join the PKK to attain a Kurdish national homeland; and that people join al-Qaida to, among other things, get the United States out of the Persian Gulf. If you believe this model, the way to fight terrorism is to change that equation, and that's what most experts advocate. Governments tend to minimize the political gains of terrorism through a no-concessions policy; the international community tends to recommend reducing the political grievances of terrorists via appeasement, in hopes of getting them to renounce violence. Both advocate policies to provide effective nonviolent alternatives, like free...

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02.10.2008 06:00:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Gallery: Giants of Earth and Space

: Photo courtesy H. Raab On Oct. 2, 1608, officials in the Netherlands pondered over a patent application. It was submitted by spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey for a "device by means of which all things at a very great distance can be seen as if they were nearby." This is the earliest known record of a telescope. A few months later, scientist Galileo Galilei would get his hands on one. Initially telescopes were simple, handheld gadgets made by combining a few small lenses of ground glass, housed in tubes of wood about as long as a man's arm. But now, 400 years later, the world's largest telescopes require footholds on great mountains and tons of iron and steel to support the giant mirrors that allow scientists to see astoundingly vast distances across space. In a speech to astronomers in June 2008, author Dava Sobel asserted that looking through telescopes is some of the finest work that humans do as a species. Here's a glimpse at that work, with a few images produced by the ten largest ground-based optical telescopes. You can also send us your own photos taken of or through telescopes. Gran Telescopio Canarias Currently, the largest ground-based telescope is the Gran Telescopio Canarias, or GTC, located on one of the Canary Islands, La Palma, home to several telescopes. GTC has a 10.4-meter mirror, formed by 36 custom-made hexagonal components, each engineered to within a millimeter to fit together perfectly. To tell them apart during construction, each segment was...

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02.10.2008 06:00:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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A Stellar History: The Telescope Turns 400

400 years after the invention of the telescope -- we know we're a mere speck in a universe of wonders. Explore an interactive timeline of the telescope's major advances and discoveries.

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02.10.2008 06:00:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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A Simple Plan to ID Every Creature on Earth

The utopian lepidopterist holds a pin in each hand. His style is ambidextrous and probably unique. He catches two forewings of a dead moth simultaneously and pins them to his drying board, and then, in a continuous sweep, he does the same with the hind wings. He repeats these motions again and again, like a conductor with tiny batons. Outside, it is hot and bright. Inside, it is hot and dark. The lepidopterist, whose name is Dan Janzen, has been working here in this Costa Rican forest for more than 40 years. He is married to his research partner, Winnie Hallwachs, and the two of them occupy a small house with a roof of corrugated metal whose eaves cast deep shade. During the day they work under artificial light. At night bats flit through the gaps at the top of the wall, do hairpin turns in the air, and exit again without slowing. The utopian lepidopterist's aim is to put names on all the moths and butterflies in the forest. He wants to know more than just the names, of course; he wants to know who lives where and who eats whom and to unravel the mysteries of the ecosystem. But his first question is always the most basic one. This moth, here on the drying board: What is it called? All over the world, farmers, port inspectors, game wardens, exterminators, building contractors, and, of course, professional biologists are staring at some form of plant or animal life and wondering helplessly what it is. Matching living things to their names is so notoriously difficult that the...

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Congress Clears Hotly Contested Bailout Bill

How to Handle XML Data in PHP

Uncle Sam Opens His Wallet For Amtrak

Mad Men With an Ad Man: Optimedia Edition

House Schedules Second 'Rescue Plan' Vote Today

Fossett Slammed into a Mountain: Search Official

Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

Gallery: Giants of Earth and Space

A Stellar History: The Telescope Turns 400

A Simple Plan to ID Every Creature on Earth

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