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It may be several years before border checkpoints will have the equipment needed to detect nuclear material being smuggled into the country, government auditors told a congressional hearing Thursday. One lawmaker called the program to beef up border checkpoints ineffective and plodding. The General Accounting Office said that while the federal government in recent years has spent more than $11.2 million to install portal radiation monitors in Russia, only one U.S. border point has them more than a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - and that is part of a pilot project to test the equipment.More than 4,200 radiation pagers that have been given to border patrol agents and are designe
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Cinco de Mayo is a gringo holiday anyway, so I ;m not going to judge you if you choose to celebrate with a frozen margarita and a plate of cheesy nachos. But I am here to tell you that you can do better鈥攎uch, much better. Here how to drink Mexican in style. It Friday afternoon, you ;ve made it through the long week, and it time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo weekly booze column. A cocktail shaker full of innovation, science, and alcohol. Limepocalypse be damned, it time to raise a glass to our neighbors south of the border! Forget Tequila, It All About Mescal On paper, the difference seems negligible: both spirits are distilled from ag
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