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They're used to build everything from stealth choppers to lasers and night vision goggles. They're even essential to making smartphones and hybrid cars. They're rare earths, seventeen hard-to-find chemical elements with unique physical and chemical properties: some are superconductive, others are amazingly heat-resistant. It makes the rare earths very much in demand -- especially at the Pentagon. The problem is, 95% of their market is controlled by China, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. ...
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Published By: Wired - Tuesday, 7 August, 2012
Pentagon Wants $450M for Gitmo ABC News (Today) - Pentagon wants $450 million for maintaining, upgrading Guantanamo prison ...
